Movie Review: Phata Poster Nikla Hero
Review By:Utpal S. Chaudhary
Bollywood Aaina Rating: 3/5 (THREE STAR)
Banner: Tips Music Films
Producer: Ramesh S Taurani
Director:Rajkumar Santoshi
Star cast: Shahid Kapoor,Ileana DCruz,Padmini Kolhapure,Salman Khan
Genre:Drama, Comedy
Running time:146 Min.
What’s good?:Masala Movie with good comedy.
What’s bad?: Ileana DCruz not good.
Watch or Not?:Yes, If you want decent comedy,action movie with faimly.
Bollywood Aaina Business Verdict: GOOD
STORY
An aspiring actor turns into a fake cop, triggering a series of humourous twists and turns in Phata Poster Nikhla Hero. Vishwas Rao is a film buff, son of a single mother whose only dream in life is to see her son grow up into a police officer. However, after dodging continuously the police selection exam, the city of dreams comes calling to him. After a photoshoot, he retains his khaki attire and gets mistaken by a social activist Kajal as a police officer.Being an inherently righteous man, he saves the victims and manages to catch the fancy of dons as his mavericks were resulting in their losses. Preparing for a giant mission, the dons gear up to find the mischief maker. However, he falls prey only when his mother comes to Mumbai and finds out her son isn’t a cop but an actor.The story from then on moves to juggle between Vishwas’ personal life and how he gets entrapped with the don and then the police for posing as an imposter. Does he manage to scrape through is what is laid out in film!
STARCAST
Shahid Kapoor is clearly trying his hand in a genre that isn’t his forte. But he isn’t terrible. Despite the efforted stammering and overacting, sometime the actor manages to rise above his and the film’s flaws to manage an impressionable portrayal.A large part of why Shahid cannot bloom out his best is possibly because Ileana is insanely superficial and so plastic that you won’t recognize her as the woman who put up a spirited act in Barfi. Incessantly high and so sweet that might risk diabetes, Ileana doesn’t show a swell in a single frame. Saurabh Shukla and Sanjay Mishra have essayed mockery roles and have been left unused all through with characters who are easily forgettable.It is only Padmini Kolhapure who does her job to perfection. As the loving mother and woman of principles, she is near marvelous but her co-actors defy her novel intention of making the film entertaining.
Direction / Music / Lyrics /Editing / Camera:
Rajkumar Santoshi is easily a director whom most film critics must have idolized for years! With genius films like Lajja or even The Legend of Bhagat Singh, there is a sense of familiarity movie buffs have for the cinematic persona of this man – who stands tall by virtue of his works. But this film comes across as sheer betrayal to his fans and I will take a while to recuperate from this hefty blow. I don’t say this was as much of an ordeal as Family but this is definitely beneath his standard. Even in comedies, Santoshi has given Bollywood a laugh riot like Andaaz Apna Apna. In the first part, the film remains concrete but his vision is disrupted only when the film moves towards a more emotional side. With quite an over the top melodrama infused, the claps and the laughter will shush soon after the break. The screenplay is absolutely goofed up and the dialogues lose their fizz over time.
Though the music is perceived to be well-liked, for me most songs were duds. Atif doesn’t do anything as well as painful romantic numbers or just romantic numbers, beyond that his limitations begin to surface. Item Number Dhating Naach is a bore on screen and Nargis Fakhri is not a favorable choice for item songs!
Review By:Utpal S. Chaudhary
Bollywood Aaina Rating: 3/5 (THREE STAR)
Banner: Tips Music Films
Producer: Ramesh S Taurani
Director:Rajkumar Santoshi
Star cast: Shahid Kapoor,Ileana DCruz,Padmini Kolhapure,Salman Khan
Genre:Drama, Comedy
Running time:146 Min.
What’s good?:Masala Movie with good comedy.
What’s bad?: Ileana DCruz not good.
Watch or Not?:Yes, If you want decent comedy,action movie with faimly.
Bollywood Aaina Business Verdict: GOOD
STORY
An aspiring actor turns into a fake cop, triggering a series of humourous twists and turns in Phata Poster Nikhla Hero. Vishwas Rao is a film buff, son of a single mother whose only dream in life is to see her son grow up into a police officer. However, after dodging continuously the police selection exam, the city of dreams comes calling to him. After a photoshoot, he retains his khaki attire and gets mistaken by a social activist Kajal as a police officer.Being an inherently righteous man, he saves the victims and manages to catch the fancy of dons as his mavericks were resulting in their losses. Preparing for a giant mission, the dons gear up to find the mischief maker. However, he falls prey only when his mother comes to Mumbai and finds out her son isn’t a cop but an actor.The story from then on moves to juggle between Vishwas’ personal life and how he gets entrapped with the don and then the police for posing as an imposter. Does he manage to scrape through is what is laid out in film!
STARCAST
Shahid Kapoor is clearly trying his hand in a genre that isn’t his forte. But he isn’t terrible. Despite the efforted stammering and overacting, sometime the actor manages to rise above his and the film’s flaws to manage an impressionable portrayal.A large part of why Shahid cannot bloom out his best is possibly because Ileana is insanely superficial and so plastic that you won’t recognize her as the woman who put up a spirited act in Barfi. Incessantly high and so sweet that might risk diabetes, Ileana doesn’t show a swell in a single frame. Saurabh Shukla and Sanjay Mishra have essayed mockery roles and have been left unused all through with characters who are easily forgettable.It is only Padmini Kolhapure who does her job to perfection. As the loving mother and woman of principles, she is near marvelous but her co-actors defy her novel intention of making the film entertaining.
Direction / Music / Lyrics /Editing / Camera:
Rajkumar Santoshi is easily a director whom most film critics must have idolized for years! With genius films like Lajja or even The Legend of Bhagat Singh, there is a sense of familiarity movie buffs have for the cinematic persona of this man – who stands tall by virtue of his works. But this film comes across as sheer betrayal to his fans and I will take a while to recuperate from this hefty blow. I don’t say this was as much of an ordeal as Family but this is definitely beneath his standard. Even in comedies, Santoshi has given Bollywood a laugh riot like Andaaz Apna Apna. In the first part, the film remains concrete but his vision is disrupted only when the film moves towards a more emotional side. With quite an over the top melodrama infused, the claps and the laughter will shush soon after the break. The screenplay is absolutely goofed up and the dialogues lose their fizz over time.
Though the music is perceived to be well-liked, for me most songs were duds. Atif doesn’t do anything as well as painful romantic numbers or just romantic numbers, beyond that his limitations begin to surface. Item Number Dhating Naach is a bore on screen and Nargis Fakhri is not a favorable choice for item songs!
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