Shanta argued that if we go for Harry Potter than, we should also watch Naqaab. Well, she saw Bobby, Akshaye and Urvashi that day and felt that it would be a good movie with their publicity stunt getting into her head. Alright, the movie was pathetic and I would suggest a “Skip It” option and wait for their CD (yes, not even worth a DVD) version or better yet wait for the TV version.
Of course, it is the Bollywood version of another not-so-good Hollywood flick - dot the i; no surprise there! dot the i took place in London whereas Naqaab took place in Dubai. Your memories may also give you flashbacks of The Truman Show and The Graduate.
The story involves a Love Triangle amongst multi-millionaire Karan Khanna aka Rohit Shroff (Bobby Deol), Vicky Malhotra (Akshaye Khanna) and Sophia (Urvashi Sharma). Sophia is a jolly girl who have changed more jobs than she changed her clothes - worked for a construction firm, beauty parlor and finally we saw her as a Burger King girl during the course of the Movie Storyline. She is a casual but self-respecting girl, pays her rent bill to Karan while she continues a live-in relationship with him in his big Mansion.
Anyway, it is funny that such big Mansion of Karan is home to just three person - Sophia, Mrs. Gomes and Karan with no security for such a multi-millionaire. Anybody can come in anytime from the main gate either at day (The private detective/photographer coming in to meet Karan) or night (remember Sophia coming home date that day from a date with Vicky).
Finally, when Sophia got engaged to Karan after 6 months of living together; she met Vicky Malhotra on her Engagement Party at a Posh Hotel in Dubai. Much to the delight of everybody, she was supposed to dance her last pre-marriage dance with a man of her choice. She chose Vicky and they fell in some sorta Love. I never knew love is always that simple in Bollywood. What did she saw in Vicky that she missed in Karan? Those crudely cut Salsa-type dance done in multi-multiple takes?
This is one self-claimed Thriller that will not thrill you at all. The first half of movie moved at snail’s pace and stayed with building the characters. The encounters of Sophia and Vicky was exceptionally slow and unnecessarily long. The movie tends to move to the comic side at the end or where the Movie makers assuming that the audience will need some comic relief from the thriller that failed to thrilled?
And what with the 2 camcorder flinging self-styled producers - Vikas Kalantri and Vishal Malhotra? Why do Bollywood always take mediocre and sub-standard actors for the non-lead roles in movies. They could have been replaced by some better actors and could have done a little justice to the movie. They are supposed to be supporting characters to the actual plot of the movie.
I won’t really discuss the funny plot and be a spoiler for you who wish to see the movie. But gain, that’s a stupid movie according to me. Btw, for those looking out for Urvashi Sharma, well then she has the body and there was enough of her flesh in the movie to quench your thirst. However, she is neither beautiful nor pretty and her acting ain’t that good at all.
Trivia:
- The 2 funny sub-rung self-styled Producer duo (Vikas Kalantri and Vishal Malhotra) in the movie talk to each other about changing “CD” for their Camcorder. Technicaly there was never a CamCorder that records to a CD directly but a DVD.
- A fire-alarm when fired should automatically initiate the water sprinklers but it seems to not work for the Hyatt hotel at Dubai. This was when Sophia pushed that un-protected (they used to have break-easy glass coverings) Fire-Alarm button.
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