Chakk de phatte!!!
I watched "Jo Bole So Nihaal" on the previous weekend. Some gyaan for all readers...
I am not quite sure how the director intended to position this movie. Was it a comedy or a dhishum-dhishum kind of a movie? After seeing the movie I am still confused. Sunny Deol appears headed in the same direction as Mithunda and Jackie... the B and C category movies. These kind of movies might not do well in the urban metros but will bring in the crowd in the cowbelt regions. The kind of comedy in this movie reminded me of the movies his dad Dharmendra had to resort to during the last stages of his own career. I cannot understand why Sunny, who had given excellent performances in Gadar, Border is trying his hand at this kind of comedy so late in his career.
Let me take you thru the movie...
Sunny Deol is Nihaal Singh, a police constable in some part of Punjab. He is a very down to earth chap and lets go a mercenary Romeo(Kamaal Khan) who feeds him some tale abt his cancer ridden daughter. Romeo is an international terrorist who has executed assassinations in Israel, China, Russia ... etc,etc basically a chap whom no one has been able to see/apprehend. His favourite mechanism of killing people is sticking an IC and a LED into some modelling clay and then clicking his remote. OK.. OK.. plastic explosive does indeed look like modelling clay, but I and u know that, not the rural folk in Punjab and Haryana. I am pretty sure some studs there will already be attempting this.
After Nihaal Singh lets go of Romeo he is stripped of his uniform by the Punjab Police and his family ostracised. Nihaal takes a vow to bring back Romeo to Punjab and prove his innocence.
Cut to next scene, FBI officials are seen discussing plans to apprehend Romeo who is supposed to have taken the contract to eliminate the US president. But since nobody has seen him till date they have to revert to Nihaal Singh to obtain his help. So they fly their chopper to Punjab and arrive at the local police station with their laptops. Nihaal Singh accompanies them back to USA and sets to his task.
All mercenaries have a signature and Romeo has a very subtle one. After his job is done he always visits a church and confesses to his crime in front of the father. After the confession he kills the father as well, Cool. The next weekend he confesses to the Father's murder in yet another church and so on and so forth. So Nihaal Singh uses this habit of Romeo to nab him. What follows in the movie is a very low level of comedy at times. Sample.. Sunny is roaming the streets of New York and notices a transvestite. He goes and grabs the guy/gal right where he/she is missing the vital organ. And laughs at that....!!!! This might not make you laugh but I can just imagine the scene at the theatre in Patiala.
Then there is a shady millionaire in the movie. He is a Vijay Mallya lookalike with proclivities for babes, booze and beaches. He hires Romeo to kill somebody but Nihaal Singh foils his plans. NihalEnemies++. How Nihaal manages to catch Romeo and brings him back to India is what forms the extremely avoidable second half of the movie. Oh before I forget, amidst the confusion in the second half it turns out that the FBI itself is trying to eliminate the president. I had completely given up any hope of locating some sense in the movie by that time.
A lot of puns are made on Sardars and I greatly admired the Sardars in the theatre who took the jokes pretty well. There are 3 songs in the movie and barring one which is the title track the rest are forgettable. Kamaal Khan as Romeo debuts in the movie and I wonder why he was not allowed a song in the movie. I mean when u can allow every other kind of nonsense why not this?
I just hope Sunny does not continue to do these kind of movies any longer. He might get the audiences initially but in the long run he would lose it all.
Sat Sri Akaal.
- The FBI has a new dress code for long leggy female agents! It includes long boots, a pink tank top and a micro-skirt. The tank top has "FBI" embroidered on it.
- Making a remote controlled explosive is remarkably simple. Just stick in an IC and a LED into some modelling clay, and press ur TV remote. Kabooooom.....
- U can land a FBI chopper right into indian villages!
- FBI stands for "Fully Bewakoof Insaan"
I am not quite sure how the director intended to position this movie. Was it a comedy or a dhishum-dhishum kind of a movie? After seeing the movie I am still confused. Sunny Deol appears headed in the same direction as Mithunda and Jackie... the B and C category movies. These kind of movies might not do well in the urban metros but will bring in the crowd in the cowbelt regions. The kind of comedy in this movie reminded me of the movies his dad Dharmendra had to resort to during the last stages of his own career. I cannot understand why Sunny, who had given excellent performances in Gadar, Border is trying his hand at this kind of comedy so late in his career.
Let me take you thru the movie...
Sunny Deol is Nihaal Singh, a police constable in some part of Punjab. He is a very down to earth chap and lets go a mercenary Romeo(Kamaal Khan) who feeds him some tale abt his cancer ridden daughter. Romeo is an international terrorist who has executed assassinations in Israel, China, Russia ... etc,etc basically a chap whom no one has been able to see/apprehend. His favourite mechanism of killing people is sticking an IC and a LED into some modelling clay and then clicking his remote. OK.. OK.. plastic explosive does indeed look like modelling clay, but I and u know that, not the rural folk in Punjab and Haryana. I am pretty sure some studs there will already be attempting this.
After Nihaal Singh lets go of Romeo he is stripped of his uniform by the Punjab Police and his family ostracised. Nihaal takes a vow to bring back Romeo to Punjab and prove his innocence.
Cut to next scene, FBI officials are seen discussing plans to apprehend Romeo who is supposed to have taken the contract to eliminate the US president. But since nobody has seen him till date they have to revert to Nihaal Singh to obtain his help. So they fly their chopper to Punjab and arrive at the local police station with their laptops. Nihaal Singh accompanies them back to USA and sets to his task.
All mercenaries have a signature and Romeo has a very subtle one. After his job is done he always visits a church and confesses to his crime in front of the father. After the confession he kills the father as well, Cool. The next weekend he confesses to the Father's murder in yet another church and so on and so forth. So Nihaal Singh uses this habit of Romeo to nab him. What follows in the movie is a very low level of comedy at times. Sample.. Sunny is roaming the streets of New York and notices a transvestite. He goes and grabs the guy/gal right where he/she is missing the vital organ. And laughs at that....!!!! This might not make you laugh but I can just imagine the scene at the theatre in Patiala.
Then there is a shady millionaire in the movie. He is a Vijay Mallya lookalike with proclivities for babes, booze and beaches. He hires Romeo to kill somebody but Nihaal Singh foils his plans. NihalEnemies++. How Nihaal manages to catch Romeo and brings him back to India is what forms the extremely avoidable second half of the movie. Oh before I forget, amidst the confusion in the second half it turns out that the FBI itself is trying to eliminate the president. I had completely given up any hope of locating some sense in the movie by that time.
A lot of puns are made on Sardars and I greatly admired the Sardars in the theatre who took the jokes pretty well. There are 3 songs in the movie and barring one which is the title track the rest are forgettable. Kamaal Khan as Romeo debuts in the movie and I wonder why he was not allowed a song in the movie. I mean when u can allow every other kind of nonsense why not this?
I just hope Sunny does not continue to do these kind of movies any longer. He might get the audiences initially but in the long run he would lose it all.
Sat Sri Akaal.
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