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Director :Sujoy
Ghosh
Music :Vishal - Shekhar
Lyrics :Vishal
Starring : Vivek Oberoi, Ayesha Takia. Mahima
Chowdhary, Boman Irani.
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Movie Review : |
 This
is a strange comedy about a self-obsessed writer who
finally drives everyone away - including the audience.
Meet Sunny, aka Gyan
Guru. He thinks the world moves on his volition. Little
does he know!Vivek Oberoi brings
a cute endearing quality to his author-backed part.
Partly goofy, partly sassy, and wholly cocky he is the
portrait of masculine vanity. Sunny has a devoted girlfriend
(Ayesha Takia, plump wholesome and pleasant like home-made
pizza).
But
he spends his time fobbing off her marriage plans, writing
a script for Karan Johar (an ill-planned guest appearance
by the director which serves no purpose except to raise
the glamour-quotient of the imaginative but sadly arid
script) and fantasizing about a buxom South Indian actress
(a surprisingly saucy spirited and spoofy performance
by Mahima Chowdhary).
Scruffy, megalomaniacal and entirely unpleasant, Sunny
provides a quaintly contrived contrast to the benign
old pizza delivery-man Michael (Boman Irani, competent
as usual, though not given the chance to rise above
the script).The morality skirmish between Sunny and
Michael in the second-half has a warm workable quality.
Lamentably the 'humour'
(and the inverted commas are intentional) in the first-half
is so flat and silly, you wonder what the talented director
of JHANKAR BEATS was thinking while writing the scenes.
Maybe, like the late pizza delivery, he lost track of
timeSure Ghosh has a great feel and flair for looking
at the quirky side of metropolitan mores. And that whole
idea of a little girl getting the Diwali tune right
by the end of the film, is an intelligent metaphor for
the movement and rhythm of the protagonist's life.But
this time around Ghosh is way of out his depths.
The protagonist's eccentric neighbours serve up a mealy-mouthed
pantomime of grotesque giggles. Simmering in the comic
cauldron is a serial killer (Arif Zakaria) who gets
whacked around so hard, you wonder if Cartoon Network
influenced Ghosh.
Yes… HOME DELIVERY
is that rarity which is getting progressively hard to
come by: an original film. However originality per se
isn't a great virtue. More often than not, you run out
of patience as you watch Ghosh get unfairly self-indulgent.
He uses crisscrossing editing patterns and spoofy musical
sets from commercial cinema without getting the counterpoint
right.Ghosh knows what he doesn't want to make. But
what he has made hardly convinces us that a change is
always for the better.
Apart from a series
of cleverly cute guest appearances, there's little to
look out for in this droopy drop-'dread' comedy…
Vivek tries to hold the show together. But it's a losing
battle.This is JHANKAR BEATS without the jhankar
courtesy:glamsham
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