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Director
: Kabir Sadanand
Music : Vishal-Shekher
Lyrics : Vishal Dadlani
Starring : Akshay Kapoor,
Tanisha, Yash Tonk, Rashmi Nigam, Kamini Khanna,
Deepak Tijori |
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 "Popcorn
Khao...Mast Ho Jao" belongs unapologetically to
the cool school. It borrows heavily from the Archies
comic strip. Newcomer Abhishek Kapoor makes a pleasantly
scrambled Archie while Yash Tonk - full of cheesy chutzpah
and gulping gusto-is Jughead.
Tanisha and debutante
Rashmi Nigam play demure Betty and Veronica.
Last year, the same
campus formula was used in Ken Ghosh's "Ishq Vishq".
The dialogues in "Popcorn Khao..." and the
performances are far more elevating and intelligent.
Debutant director Kabir
Sadanand makes no bones about making a film that doesn't
try to say anything beyond its romantic surface. Still,
he surprises us in the second-half with some very tender
interludes between the self-motivated Rahul (Kapoor)
and the all-giving small-town girl with rock-steady
values Tanya (Tanisha) who's so devoted, she cries when
Rahul is mistreated by the neighbourhood femme fatale.
To our relief, there
are no vamps and villains in Sadanand's scheme of things,
no heaving highs (not counting the bosoms and thighs
that surface in sloping splendour for the two utterly
uncalled-for item songs) and no whimpering lows.
The narrative moves
at a tranquil pace, neither creating overt drama nor
making a song and dance over playing it cool.
Having adopted the Archies
formula, Sadanand goes back to many other more native
sources to tell his story.
The theme of the innocent
musician's compromise and corruption in big bad Mumbai
has its echoes in Raj Kapoor's "Shri 420".
You can, in fact go back to Aziz Mirza's "Raju
Ban Gaya Gentleman", where Sah Rukh Khan had to
choose between 'love' Juhi Chawla and 'amibition' Amrita
Singh.
The choice, as they
say, is clear. Without raising a hue and cry over its
moral preoccupations, "Popcorn Khao..." gives
us a portrait of the Innocent Abroad as he wades through
the concrete jungle trying to find a place for his restless
spirit.
These deep ideas are not quite what this film aims at.
While having a good time, "Popcorn..." does
aim to provide an underbelly of simmering thoughts which
are kept out of visual range but nonetheless mingle
with the cosmetic emotions of characters who live on
the edge of shallow waters.
Most of all, perhaps
subconsciously, this is Kabir Sadanand's homage to "Kuch
Kuch Hota Hai", Karan Johar's historic take on
the Archies formula.
Tanisha and Rashmi Nigam
are clearly modelled on
Kajol and Rani Mukherjee in Johar's film. Many scenes
featuring them with the hero also echo "Kuch Kuch
Hota Hai" without blinding aping the source material.
Kajol's sister Tanisha,
who made a disastrous debut last year, is vaguely engaging.
Like her sister in Karan Johar's film, Tanisha is made
to go from tomboy to sari-clad woman of the world who
says: "I've begun to say important things because
I now understand the value of little gestures in life."
Rashmi Nigam wears the
I-Am-Cool expression throughout the film. Maybe she's
saving up the other expressions for later.
Akshay Kapoor in the
author-backed role gives a surprisingly confident account
of his character's confusions and ambitions. After Sammir
Dattani, who made a spectacular impact in "Uff
Kya Jadoo Mohabbat Hai", Kapoor's is the only notable
debut this year.
Director Sadanand puts
in an interesting cameo as a Hollywood-fixated star
in Bollywood. He brings out the vanity of the average
Hindi star with cocky conviction.
The film often pokes
fun at mainstream conventions. After Rahul's bohemian
landlady (Kamini Khanna) hugs him and gets sentimental,
she quickly pushes him away, saying: "Don't think
I'm going to behave like the Pinto Aunty in Hindi films."
While looking away from
the formula films, "Popcorn..." still manages
to pay homage to conventions. But the quadrangle gets
tedious in time. Though the characters seem to have
all the time in the world, you want the plot to hurry
to its inevitable conclusions.
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: Glamsham.com
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