To sum up with the refrain (Aladin, Aladin, kahan hai tera jinn) of the film: Aladin, Aladin, kahan hai tera sheen? Truly, a big let down from director Sujoy Ghosh who lost both his jhankar and his beats after ‘Home Delivery’ and ‘Aladin’, his films following a scintillating debut with ‘Jhankar Beats’.Aladin : Sujoy Ghosh Budget: INR 50 Cr This movie produced, directed and written by Sujoy Ghosh comes as a welcome change from the regular run around the trees. As for the dialogues, sample this: Dutt gleefully rubs the magical lamp and says `main dardi rub-a-rub karti'. So where did the visual effects supervisor - the core of a fantasy film - learn his pyrotechnics and whatever happened to Vishal-Shekhar, the currently in-form music duo who churn out one of their most forgettable music score in Aladin. In fact, the special effects of the film are so pathetic, they make you wince.like Mr Bachchan turning into a lion, Riteish mutating into a donkey and an inflated rubber doll, Dutt emasculating into a face in the mirror and leaping up to clench a comet. Enter Sanjay Dutt, with his ragtag army of jokers, giants, fire-eaters who fail to tickle your funny bone, nor do they shock and awe with their killing machine tactics. The plot gets more puzzling with the story tellers trying to connect the implausible occurrences on screen with the movement of a comet that promises to make anyone who touches its shadow indestructible. The rest is easy and quite unfunny, with Bachchan trying to play matchmaker and Dutt trying to play comet catcher.Ĭomet, did we say? Yes. He enters our hero's khayals (thoughts) through his ear and ferrets out his hidden passion for classmate, Jasmine. And believe it or not, when Aladin mumbles something about not believing in magic, the genie who call himself Genius, performs the dumbest act. This time, the rubbing actually has results: a not-so-funny Mr Bachchan apparates with his zestless monologues and mantras, urging Aladin to make his three wishes.
The gift is actually a prank again, but ends up as the beginning of a new, charmed life for the proverbial loser after he is forced to rub the decrepit object. The jaadu works just once when Jasmine (Jacqueline), the college hottie presents a lamp to the oddball on his miserable birthday. Of course, the wimpy kid fails to create magic most of the time, ending up as the unfriendly neighbourhood's favourite punching bag. Saddled with a name like Aladin, orphaned kid Riteish Deshmukh spends most of his school and college days bearing the brunt of bullies who force him to rub lamps at odd junctures in order to produce the famed genie. Yes, it is the sets of the film alone, comprising a fictitious township called Khwaish, which evoke some interest. Debutant Jacqueline too fails to prove she's more than a pretty face, ending up as mere eye candy in a film that scores mostly in one department: the art direction (Sabu Cyril). Riteish, meanwhile, shuffles through the film with a hangdog expression, woozy and woolly-headed for most of his I'm-the-archetypal-loser act. If Amitabh suffers a bad hair day with his unbecoming wigs and is sartorially challenged throughout the film with his sequined jackets, red waistcoats and white sneakers, then Dutt ends up as a shabby blend of Heath Ledger's Joker and his own Khalnayak. In fact, for the two veterans, Amitabh and Sanjay Dutt, this might be one their most bizarre performances.
Neither do the genie (Amitabh Bachchan) and the Ring Master (Sanjay Dutt) create magic with their over the top acts, nor does the Riteish-Jacqueline romance strike a chord. Review: Okay, so the film makers wanted to recreate the popular fairy tale as a modern day fantasy, replete with real life characters.īut truly, we fail to get the point because the film doesn't work at any level. Much to the discomfiture of the devilish Ring Master, Sanjay Dutt. He finds a magical lamp, rubs out its genie, Amitabh Bachchan, and manages to make the right moves, both in life and his love story. Story: College boy, Aladin falls in love with the campus hottie, Jasmine, but lacks the charisma to woo her.
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