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Boredom at its best


Let me make a confession first. I never got past first 45 minutes. Later it may have turned from a predictable mess to a class masterpiece...but after first 45 minutes i was past care.

An unruly kid thrown out of a hostel because he was watching a late night movie. Then a tough father hell bent to throw his weight around. What an original idea!

And this sums the movie. Rest of it is just going through the motions. Movie NEVER moves up from its basics. As expected the kid is sensitive and rebellious. Father insensitive and authoritative. Father's brother gives sane advice...god! very obvious witers and director had lots of money and spare time on his hands to waste and they hate putting stress on their tiny brains to come up with new ideas or at least to put SOME twist in this insipidity. Except the child actor who plays the younger brother, absolutely no one is worth watching though Ronit Roy is a good actor but as they say, actors are director's medium...

Skip it if you don't want to waste time on things everyone knows. Writers and director must Watch TAARE ZAMEEN PE which deals with child issues and try to learn how a social relevant movie can be made while sill being entertaing and unpredictable.

2 outa 5.

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It is very original actually how many movies have you seen in India on this theme. One of the best hindi movies of the last decade. Much better than the usual tripe bollywood serves including your recommendation.

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You rated godzilla 6 and udaan 4? you are a real chutia.

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This is one of the best Indian films ever made.

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Clearly movie wasn't for you. You plz stick to your dabang chaap movie

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Let me make a confession first. I never got past first 45 minutes. Later it may have turned from a predictable mess to a class masterpiece...but after first 45 minutes i was past care.

Movie NEVER moves up from its basics.


Even though this is a new board, and it's very possible that skyscorpio has not migrated from IMDb message boards to moviechat.org, I'd still like to comment on this.

If skyscorpio really only watched the film for 45 minutes ("I never got past first 45 minutes."), he/she has no way of knowing what happened during the rest of this 2 h 14 mins film. Thus, his/her comment about the film "NEVER mov[ing] up from its basics" has no leg to stand on. It's completely fine to stop watching a film if it just doesn't feel like one's cup of tea, but if one hasn't watched the whole film, one shouldn't make any claims in the style of "The film NEVER..."

There were some points where I found it hard to continue watching the film due to the father's abusiveness, but I decided to stick with it. At some points of the film, if I had stopped watching it, I would have ended up rating it 4 out of 10, or 5 out of 10. But, I watched the whole film, and it actually got better towards the end. And, after watching the whole film, I ended up rating it 7 out of 10.

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