|  Police
force Movie Review :
In one-half of this fling....sorry film...Akshay Kumar
walks around like a zombie....but I've already forgotten
which half. In another half, he gets brutally tortured
by his senior colleagues in the police force.
But sorry...don't ask which half. Too busy licking our
own wounds to care about our super-hero's scampering
hinjinks, Police Farce....oops..."Police Force"
leaves us gasping for air. The exit sign has never looked
prettier....or more distant.
"Police Force" is as forceful as a punch in
the stomach - and as entertaining as a visit to a zoo
colonized by animals being drug-tested for a potentially
dangerous new anti-rabies medication.
The plot -- from what one could make of it in the jumbled
gyration of psychedelic song sequences and faded colour
schemes that make the frames look as though they had
been left out in the sun for too long - is all about
very corrupt, very dangerous and very hammy politicians
(played predictably by Mohan Joshi, Raj Babbar, Govind
Namdeo, and co.) who would stop at nothing to bring
gloom into the junta's life.
These khadi-clad goons,
you suspect, have financed "Police Force"
to emasculate and cut down the nation's morale after
the tumultuous elections. As the narration builds up
to a grating crescendo, the characters gather in the
narrative's firing range like rusted guns pulled out
of holsters that have seen better days.
A hit-man in fast-changing
gaudy bush-shirts who discusses 'going' rates like vegetable
prices, a mother (Ashalata) who pulls out all the drips
from her son's veins in the hospital and screams, "He
doesn't need medication, he'll live to kill the bad
guys" and a pair of heaving bosoms in the second
half....these are some of the grotesque members of the
supporting cast.
The corny narration
gets cornier with every heave of the editor's scissors.
It includes a sequence where honest officer Amrish Puri
orders seedy politician Govind Namdeo's clothes to be
pulled off in lock-up. "The knickers as well,"
Puri snarls with a straight face.
Ever watched Namdeo
cowering naked in a corner? Ever wondered why or how
actors like him and Raj Babbar agree to do scenes that
are unaesthetic and unbecoming?
In the midst of a blizzard
of barren stunts and stunted characterizations, Akshay
Kumar and Amrish Puri struggle to keep their heads above
the mire. But it's a losing battle.
Oh yes, "Police
Force" also stars Raveena Tandon who breezes in
for the atrociously paced songs with Akshay Kumar, and
then rushes out double-quick.
Wish we could follow
suit and save ourselves the ordeal of watching a film
that makes no sense to anyone including, one suspects,
its makers.
Raveena deservees much
better, and so do we.
Technically shoddy with
Pramod Fatak' s cinematography groping hard to find
a semblance of continuity in the uneven shots, "Police
Force" is a tribute not to the resilience and endurance
power of our brave cops, but to the avid movie watcher
who can sit through the film in the hope that Akshay
Kumar can deliver. |
