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I liked it

posted 15 years ago by off_target
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I saw it last month while visiting my family in India. Now when I saw it I never knew it did so badly in India. I also had read none of the reviews on it.
I'm baffled as to why so many people didn't enjoy its unique cinematography.
Its over the top, it stands out!
Bollywood could achieve so much more if it's directors made unique movies like Tashan. Thats what independent films across the world do and it works.
Its almost as though Indian audiences are stuck in the world of 'Bollywood masala' and can't understand, therefore enjoy, movies with a different formula.

I don't watch many hindi films, the last major film I saw was Taal back in 2000.
I tried to watch Dhoom and Krish but I got bored of the same old script.
This time round I watched Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, which was pretty good (but so was Tashan) and Ghajini, which I thought was a cheap imitation of Memento with some Bollywood masala thrown in.

I for one think if Indian movies can break away from the norm, its a good thing.
It may not please audiences in the sub continent but the rest of the world would be refreshed to see something new.

[–] luiz_sama 15 years ago

Totally agreed! *except for the Ghajini part. I think it was deeply inspired in Memento but i don´t see it as a cheap copy.

[–] popebunny 15 years ago

Tashan is probably one of my favorite Indian films, largely because it reminds me so much of quirky Western action-comedies like "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" with all the extreme visual flare of "Survive Style 5".

"Dhoom" is as hilariously (and, I admit, entertainingly) bad as any straight-faced action epic made anywhere in the world, but people in other regions eat up poorly made movies all the time as well so they keep getting made. I'm glad to see someone trying to break the mold a bit.

[–] tanfastic006 15 years ago

yep i loved it too..
i just loved akky as ravan on a red scooter..thatsbthe best scene

"my daddy days you're an uhsole"--Hancock

[–] homegnome1 15 years ago

I loved it. I'm an Anil Kapoor/Saif Ali Khan/Akshay Kumar fan - big time. And Kareena Kapoor looked fabulous, not the dowdy spinster look she's sported for so long. Every song was incredible, I usually fast forward thru them all. This was much better than Dhoom or Dhoom 2. I had no idea what to expect, so every twist was a surprise. It was great fun!

[–] dezycool 14 years ago

about how unique tashan is...i agree. will indian film makers experiment with such formulas? no.
http://mangonation.blogspot.com/2008/04/tashan-review.html

[–] sarcasticmistery 14 years ago

I actually like it as well, songs were pretty good too.

[–] zzzoeb 10 years ago

I liked it a lot too. I remember that when I first watched the film, I was one of the few who actually enjoyed it fully and I was always trying to find people who could like the film as well....
Vijay Krishna Acharya did a fantastic job by mixing the best and worst of both Hollywood and Bollywood to craft a truly Tarantino style caper that delivers big on spectacle, quirky action scenes and some off-the-kilter sophisticated dialogue. I am sure most of the crowds did not get the humor of the film- it was more Woody Allen-like in flavor rather than the silly laugh-out-loud gags that Bollywood usually throws at us.
The problem was in the script. There were times when it dragged too much, there were times when it become too serious and at times, it even bored a bit. I think the film could have done with some more gags, some more killer lines but on an overall, it was pretty good and way way better than most of the nonsensical action films of Bollywood.
It also had one of my all-time favorite romantic songs (Falak Tak), some of the best shot sequences of all time, one of Akshay Kumar's most genuinely thrilling performances and it had one superb joke as well.
'Man is **** but English.....Prince Charles! Charlie Chaplin!'
Whoa!