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Welcome Back (2015)
Welcome Back!!!!
When was the last that you watched a movie and after two and a half hours all you wanted was refund? Well it happened to me this evening when I watched Welcome Back. There are bad movies (Humshakals), there are worse movies (Himmatwala) then there is fifty feet of crap and then there is Welcome Back. The movie begins with the Majnu(Anil Kapoor) and Uday(Nana Patekar) living an honest life but still not entirely happy as they haven't been able to find a suitable bride for themselves. Then enter Maharani and her daughter(Ddimple Kapadia and Ankita Shrivastava respectively) and both the Bhais fall for the same girl (again). Only they don't know that these women are not what they say, in reality they are here to con Majnu and Uday. One girl creates the divide between Majnu and Uday and when things are just about to get thick enters Shankar Shetty, Uday's father played by Nana Patekar. He drops him with the news about his third marriage and the daughter he has with that marriage- Ranjahana(Shruti Hasan). And now it's uday's responsibility to find a suitable groom for her. In the meantime Dr. Ghongroo (Paresh Rawal) discovers that her wife too had a son outside her marriage which he was never told about. This son of Ghongroo is a local goon in Mumbai, Ajju Bhai(Jhon Abraham). Uday and Majnu want Ghongroo to marry their sister with his son as they don't know that he is not what they think he is but little do they know that their sister already is in love with the same guy. After getting to know the truth about Ajju they decide to take help from the underworld don Wanted Bhai(Nasseruddin Shah), but again are unknown of the fact that his son Honey(Shiny Ahuja) is in love with their sister too. All this lead to a series of confusion and that's how we have our movie. The story of the movie has nothing new to offer as it is a complete rip off of welcome with slight changes here and there and two new characters of maharani and his daughter (which still doesn't change a thing). The script written by Anes Bazmi himself is filled with dialogues which are trying too hard to be funny but ends up being more than just lame (except few dialogues by Nana Patekar). Welcome didn't have great music but still the songs had a unique quality about them. But in welcome back music is as bad as it can get. The soundtracks for welcome back was composed by seven artists- Meet bros, Mika Singh, Honey Singh, Milind Gaba, Abhishek Ray, Sidhant Madhvan and Anu Malik but not even one of them couldn't make a single soundtrack that one can take back with them. The lyrics of these songs make it even worse. The background score which was the high point of welcome's music department too fails miserably as it is nothing but the remixed version of the background score of welcome. The ensemble cast of welcome back too fails to deliver unlike it happened with welcome. Apart from Nana Patekar and Nasseruddin Shah none of the actors have managed to put up a decent show. John Abraham has always been a little short when it came to comedy but here he is completely out of space and for once Akshay kumar is missed. Paresh Rawal has sleep walked through his role of Dr. Ghongroo as he had nothing to offer in this movie. So did Ankita Shrivastava and Dimple Kapadia who was completely out of space and showed a complete lack of comic timing. Anil Kapoor was a star in the previous one but here he is totally forgettable in his Majnu avtar with too much tilted shoulder (which in no way is funny). Nana Patekar is one actor to watch out in this movie. He has an excellent comic timing and has flawless expressions. With Nasseruddin Shah, he is the only actor who makes you laugh sometimes here and there. If someone said that Katrina Kaif was just an eye candy in welcome and had nothing much to do then they should definitely look at Shruti Hasan in this one who just can't act, and more she tries more bad it looks. She had the most forgettable performance in this ensemble cast. If bad acting, music and story want enough, direction by Anes Bazmi is the final nail in the coffin. He is not just bad, he is pathetic. He not only doomed the movie with bad story or script or dialogue but also his direction. There was no direction in the movie as there wasn't a story. All he had to do was shoot the same scenes that were there in welcome with a different set. Welcome was a complete disaster in every department. It is simply one of the worst movies to come out not only this year but in few years. This sequel to the 2007 hit comedy is nothing but your worst nightmare coming true. Apart from Nana Patekar there is nothing in this movie to watch, literally nothing.
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)
The wait for a decent sleuth drama from Bollywood is over as Dibakar Banerjee is here with his latest movie- Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (yes it is a "bakshi" with a y).
The movie based on the fictional character named Byomkesh Bakshi created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The young Byomkesh is fresh out of the college and also unemployed when he is approached by Ajit Banerjee(Ankit Tiwari) for helping him to find his missing father. Reluctant at first Byomkesh accept to help him and starts the investigation on his own. As he investigates further, the case which started as about finding a missing person turns into a bigger conspiracy that could change Calcutta and may very well be the last case of his life. Determined to find the truth Byomkesh continues his investigation and that's how we have a movie. The movie directed by Dibakar Banerjee is not a usual whodunit, its way more than that.
Movie has its ups and downs but manages to stay on track as it approaches to the climax. The movie is bit slow in the first half as the character building takes a little time but soon it get its grip and does provide you with some surprises. It has a background score filled with the metal rock, which is little hard to imagine as the movie is set in Calcutta of 1942, but it is one of the best thing of the movie and fits in properly with the premise. The background score is one of the best seen in Bollywood in recent times. The biggest problem a period film has to face is of recreating the era in which story is based, but Byomkesh Bakshy does manage to get good on that front as Calcutta of 1942 created by movie is quite close to how it must have been.
Apart from pacing the problem with the movie is its on-off track. At certain points movie completely holds you but then losses a little grip again it gets your attention but then again lose the grip. And this happens all through the movie until the climax which I think is the best part of the movie. The characterization of the supporting cast is a bit let down too(apart from Ajit's character).
The acting of the cast matches up to the tight script even after the a little bleak characterization. But the performance by Ankit Tiwari as Ajit Banerjee and the performance by the villain are the stand out and even manages to overshadow the performance of our Byomkesh himself. Sushant Singh Rajput in his portrayal of Byomkesh falls a little short when compared to the Rajat Kapoor, but still in some scenes he does manage to pull it off. Swastika Mukherjee as Angori Devi is another revelation of the movie who has managed to shine in his small but important role. But the movie belongs to Dibakar Banerjee who took the challenge of creating one of the most famous character of Indian literature onto the screen and did managed to do a decent job. His style of movie making is heart of the movie. Dibakar Banerjee has already proved his talent with his previous body of work and Detective Byomkesh Bakshi takes that a notch higher.
With fine performances by the supporting cast, tight script and an exceptional background score Byomkesh is definitely the India's answer to Sherlock Holmes, and the best past is that it is in no way a rip off or copy of the Sherlock movies of TV series.If there is one genre with which Bollywood has struggled the most then it has to be a good detective movie but Detective Byomkesh Bakshi does manage to get it done for Bollywood to quiet an extent. A must watch for everyone.