Let me tell you first. Tashan is not a Serious movie. So, First thing you have to do is to keep your brain at home lock it in the fridge to reduce the damage. Done? Still you have preoccupations like this is a Yash Raj Film and what we can expect is songs, dance, action, family drama etc.? Take a break. Remove all those pre-occupations and get ready to watch a light entertainer filled with action, drama and fun. Welcome to Tashan’s review.Hot, single and beautiful Pooja (Kareena Kapoor) is all out to get hold of eligible bachelor and playboy Jimmy Cliff (Saif Ali Khan) who speak English fluently and work in a call centre. Pooja works for Bhaiyyaji (Anil Kapoor) who is a dangerous underworld Don but illiterate. Bhaiyyaji is awaiting a group of foreign delegates and want to speak to them in English. A love affair is started between Jimmy and Pooja under the nose of Bhaiyyaji. Bhaiyyaji plan to marry Pooja where Jimmy tries to get her out of Bhaiyyaji’s clutches. Pooja is indebted to Bhaiyyaji for about half a crore rupees and cannot quit. The lovers make a plan and succeed in getting out 25 Crores of Rupees belong to the Don. Pooja cheat Jimmy and escape with the money. A skillful, talented and ambitious Guerilla from Kanpur, Bachchan Pande (Akshay Kumar) was bought in to search the lovers. Jimmy surrenders before Bhaiyyaji and tells his innocence. From him they got a clue that she can be in Haridwar. So, the two are assigned to get hold of Pooja and the 25 Crore Rupees. Will they meet Pooja? Why Pooja cheat Jimmy and run away with the money? Who will marry Pooja at the end? What will happen to the Underworld Don? Where those 25 Crore Rupees are hided? There are many interesting questions one can ask from this point. Watch the movie to find out the answers. It is fun. Vijay Krishna Acharya, who was part of Doom, Doom2 & Guru as a writer try his luck in Direction with Tashan. I will say this new comer director succeed in part, much thanks to the banner and the presence of great stars. The director lack perfection, but from the very beginning the movie was attempted to give a light feeling and take off the seriousness from the audience. He failed in many departments but succeeds in one, i.e. keep occupying audience to the screen.
Anil Kapoor shown again his class and performed the humorous villain role with ease. His Ishtyle with the local dialects made his character jovial and ’katharnak’ at the same time. Akshay Kumar did his role with ease again, and the actor carried his screen presence from his previous films which helped the new director to stand on his feet. Saif Ali Khan missed the bus this time. He looks cool and performs well, but he is one actor who can reach to higher levels of acting when the role demands. His new look didn’t help either. Kareena played the seductress role well, she come out a bit bold and hot this time forget to become dolly and beautiful but the last half an hour compensated for the earlier loses and at the end she is a winner. Sanjay Mishra, Manoj Pahwa and Yashpal Sharma did their meager roles ok. Overall the performance were quite average but the screen presence of the actors salvaged the show.
Music was average. The Choreography was just ok. Falak Tak is the only song which I felt excellent for its music and choreography. Brilliant! Rest all of them are just average. The great locales could not compensate for the poor colour sense of the choreographers. For example, where a blue gives an extremely brilliant look and feel a mix of green immediately wipe out the mood completely. Follows is a mix of orange and dark blue. Choreography should express the mood of the song and project the emotion. But it is not done here. The back ground music was experimental and good. The Bachchan Pande background resembled the one in Dhol, but was extremely effective.
Cinematography was very good at some places where it fall flat in many other. The action scenes, the desert and scenes at Kerala all were good but were quite ordinary in many other places. Editing could have been better. The film is censored with 17 reels, but looks like a major chop undertook before it reached theatre to restrict the length to 2 hr 30 minutes plus.
The movie can be easily labeled as a time pass which tickle your bones and leave a smile in our face. The highlight is the light treatment of the theme, Action thriller. So there is fun and curiosity with each frame. Screen Presence of Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor & Saif Ali Khan contributed much to add value.
The movie can be labeled as a cartoon style film as well at times. Akshay Kumar Magic during the fighting, which overtakes spiderman, superman and all other cartoon characters. This Khilladi fights 100s at a time - Throw down at least 15 with his one push – Climb big walls and fight from middle when 50 people fire with machine guns - kill 100s and come out as unhurt. He can run like a cheetah and escape thousands of gun shots. It is hilarious as it intended that way. When the Killadi was doing all these, Saif tried a boat flight as well where he simply fly from the sea with a boat and fire just turning down the boat. The cartoon style was a matter of good laugh.
The director wish to heat up the boys with Kareena’s 2 piece Swim suite appearance showing the flat gym body muscles. Killadi Kumar tries a Rajani number several times to get giggles from girls, but he press below the belt line.
About the drawbacks of the movie? There are many and many. There is no logic whatsoever. All departments of the film making could have been improved. But do you really wish to know all of?
In short, don’t expect a great movie. It is another light entertainer with a formula action story told in the fun format in cartoon style. Time pass, nothing more, nothing less. The movie probably will add another hit for the Jubilee Kumar who started his winning streak long back, where it is getting positive reports.
Ratings:: 3/5
Anil Kapoor shown again his class and performed the humorous villain role with ease. His Ishtyle with the local dialects made his character jovial and ’katharnak’ at the same time. Akshay Kumar did his role with ease again, and the actor carried his screen presence from his previous films which helped the new director to stand on his feet. Saif Ali Khan missed the bus this time. He looks cool and performs well, but he is one actor who can reach to higher levels of acting when the role demands. His new look didn’t help either. Kareena played the seductress role well, she come out a bit bold and hot this time forget to become dolly and beautiful but the last half an hour compensated for the earlier loses and at the end she is a winner. Sanjay Mishra, Manoj Pahwa and Yashpal Sharma did their meager roles ok. Overall the performance were quite average but the screen presence of the actors salvaged the show.
Music was average. The Choreography was just ok. Falak Tak is the only song which I felt excellent for its music and choreography. Brilliant! Rest all of them are just average. The great locales could not compensate for the poor colour sense of the choreographers. For example, where a blue gives an extremely brilliant look and feel a mix of green immediately wipe out the mood completely. Follows is a mix of orange and dark blue. Choreography should express the mood of the song and project the emotion. But it is not done here. The back ground music was experimental and good. The Bachchan Pande background resembled the one in Dhol, but was extremely effective.
Cinematography was very good at some places where it fall flat in many other. The action scenes, the desert and scenes at Kerala all were good but were quite ordinary in many other places. Editing could have been better. The film is censored with 17 reels, but looks like a major chop undertook before it reached theatre to restrict the length to 2 hr 30 minutes plus.
The movie can be easily labeled as a time pass which tickle your bones and leave a smile in our face. The highlight is the light treatment of the theme, Action thriller. So there is fun and curiosity with each frame. Screen Presence of Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor & Saif Ali Khan contributed much to add value.
The movie can be labeled as a cartoon style film as well at times. Akshay Kumar Magic during the fighting, which overtakes spiderman, superman and all other cartoon characters. This Khilladi fights 100s at a time - Throw down at least 15 with his one push – Climb big walls and fight from middle when 50 people fire with machine guns - kill 100s and come out as unhurt. He can run like a cheetah and escape thousands of gun shots. It is hilarious as it intended that way. When the Killadi was doing all these, Saif tried a boat flight as well where he simply fly from the sea with a boat and fire just turning down the boat. The cartoon style was a matter of good laugh.
The director wish to heat up the boys with Kareena’s 2 piece Swim suite appearance showing the flat gym body muscles. Killadi Kumar tries a Rajani number several times to get giggles from girls, but he press below the belt line.
About the drawbacks of the movie? There are many and many. There is no logic whatsoever. All departments of the film making could have been improved. But do you really wish to know all of?
In short, don’t expect a great movie. It is another light entertainer with a formula action story told in the fun format in cartoon style. Time pass, nothing more, nothing less. The movie probably will add another hit for the Jubilee Kumar who started his winning streak long back, where it is getting positive reports.
Ratings:: 3/5
