'Good Boy Bad Boy' - poor fare
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Film:
"Good Boy Bad Boy"; Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Tanushree
Dutta, Isha Sharvani, Paresh Rawal; Director: Ashwini Chaudhary;
Ratings: *1/2 "Good Boy Bad Boy" or "Dhoop Chaon..." - last I remember Ashwini Chowdhary had made a lovely sun-kissed film called "Dhoop".
So what did we miss here?
"Good
Boy Bad Boy" is like a prescription to eternal cine-phobia. There's no
reason why this film should've been made in the first place. And if it
has been made, there's no valid reason for us to sit through the ordeal
of good boy Tusshar Kapoor with oiled hair, button-up shirt taking on
bad boy Emraan in scruffy jeans, stubble, sundry sunglasses.
For
a while the twosome frolic in the campus to Himesh Reshammiya's
'young', noisy and breathy tracks. Then they decide to join up and have
fun. They do. We don't! Simple.
The campus is a textbook of
idiocy. The teachers, flirty and buxom Sushmita Mukherjee and sundry
clowns, are balanced out by principal Paresh Rawal who comes up with
arguably his most unaccomplished performance in five years.
It's
not that Paresh doesn't try to lend credibility to his role of a
principal. He tries to bring a sense of order to a campus infested by
punks and other street-vile types who don't seem to know how to hold a
book right. And the only test they seem capable of passing is the
HIV-positive one.
It's tough to tell what director Chaudhary
hoped to achieve through this classroom of compulsive craziness. Maybe
he wanted to make a "Main Hoon Na" of the punk generation. Maybe he
wanted to build a pyramid of laughter out of youthful angst. Maybe he
wanted us to forget he made "Dhoop" not too long ago.
The
director fails on all counts, but one. It's easy to forget that this
director had not too long ago displayed enough sensitivity to make us
hopeful for his future.
What works is the principal casting.
Tusshar and Hashmi are good and bad without trying too hard. But their
efforts to remain true to 'tripe' defeats their very purpose of being
in the film. The two leading ladies try to be glamorous and sassy.
Isha
has lost a lot of weight, even on her face. Gone with the avoirdupois
is her ability to emote that we saw in Subhash Ghai's "Kisna".
Tanushree Dutta is so badly styled you wonder what keeps her from
toppling under the weight of her clumsiness.
Ditto the film.
Tackily produced and clumsily packaged "Good Boy, etc is an embarrassment to producer Subhash Ghai.
By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service
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