It's a hit. It's a hit. It's a hit. It's a banging hit. It hits your intelligence. But Oh! It has Abs. It hits your sensibilities. But it has those much touted action pieces, so what if none of them is thrilling. It hits you with so many brand placements. But, so what har brand placement ke aage producer ki jeet hai. Film gayi bhaad mein.
I had seen Knight and Day. Though script wise, even that film was at best average. But it was pacy and Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz had some amazing chemistry. That film had some chutzpah (borrowing from Haider, released the same week as Bang Bang) about it. So when I went to see its official remake stupidly called Bang Bang (the same way Hrithik's ghar is called Ghar in the film- that was the moment I had genuinely laughed), I didn't expect that for 1st 30 minutes, Knight and Day wouldn't even kick in. I did my own countdown, till the real film started, with things unrelated to the story to make the film more Indian, being hurled at me, all this while.
50000...49999...49998... wheels of revenge set in motion.... 40000... 39999...the villain eating a pizza in James Bond office.... (Ian Fleming would be turning in his grave) 35000... 34999... Hrithik loses his shirt without any reason... 30000.... 29999... 29998... Katrina and Hrithik meet in shimla, totally robbing away the serendipity of Cruise - Diaz meeting in the original... 10000.... 9000... A song... 5000.... 4000... Hrithik losing his shirt again without reason.... 5...4...3...2.. b
ang bang...
Thank god for my undying love for Katrina and Hrithik's enthusiasm, the film gets its act right in the second hour, and thus I could survive a major HIT.
Bang Bang - First reviewed on my facebook account on 15th October 2014
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