4/10
The Objectification of Tanushree Dutta!
2 August 2006
Warning: Spoilers
That's the only thing that made sense in this movie. Trust me, I couldn't give the away the plot to this movie even if I tried, it's that bad. It's one of the worse things to come out of Bollywood in recent years, yet it still boast a stellar cast and with what at first seemed to be a promising storyline. Tanurshee Dutta, appearing in her second film with Emran Hashmi plays a prostitute named Simran Chopra and let me just tell you this, the director spares not expense is objectifying her. From her skimpy clothes in freezing London weather, to sleeping around with everybody under the sun, to sleazy dance numbers and indoor rain scenes, I'm sure guys would have not been bored watching this film. There's even a scene in which she attempts to pull a "SHARON STONE A LA BASIC INSTINCT LEG UNCROSSING SCENE" to reveal a tattoo on her inner thigh, it was so drastic. Poor girl, all the time they were making her seduce Anil Kapoor's character (a man more than twice her age) and Suniel Shetty, I just kept wondering if that sort of nonsense would have happened to the ones in Bollywood with Filmi Backgrounds. Ms. Dutta endured a lot all in the name of fame in this film. Poor, poor girl indeed.

Oh! and what's with the extras with funny accents? Bollywood needs to stop this nonsense! When you're in London, get extras with authentic accents not bad actors with weird inapplicable accents, for instance the judge's accent was just too weird to handle, there is no way that she could be a judge in the British judicial system. Oh! and let's not talk about the Mafia's accents, the cops and the street beggars! The best acting I have seen by an extra in any Bollywoof film is probably Emma Bunton who plays Anna, Anil Kapoor's secretary and very well. The former spice girl may just have found her calling in Bollywood films, as I understand this isn't the only film she has appeared in.

There was another thing that bothered me with this film and it has to do with the scene in the underground parking lot, with a woman, her child and their car. Is it at all believable that the woman would have entered the car started the engine, shut the door and be ready to drive off while her little daughter was still playing with a ball outside of the car??? Come on Bollywood! I fell down laughing and crying when I saw that scene! And do not get me started on the songs in the film, there's only one good one entitled 'Mummy Ko Nahin' and performed very well by Simran (Dutta's character). The worse song in the film is by far 'Jhuki, Jhuki' performed by the worst and sluttiest looking item girl I have ever seen. My four star rating of the film are split between Emma Bunton's performance in the movie and Tanushree Dutta's performance on 'Mummy Ko Nahi', I would have otherwise given the film an awful rating. Irfan Khan's talent is hopeless wasted in the movie.
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