- "Cheeni Kum - A sugar free romance", that's what the movie adverts want you to believe. It's not. It's full of sugar coated dialogues and oh-so-irritatingly-sweet-if-I-were-a-diabetic-I-would-die kind of scenes.
- 5 out of the 7 truly funny scenes are shown in the movie trailers. You won't be missing much, trust me!
- Amitabh and Tabu share absolutely no on-screen chemistry. Every frame they share seems artificial. How can you have a romance without a sizzling chemistry between the leads?
- Amitabh is getting too repetitive with his loud monologues. You know, where he spurts out a long lecture, pausing in the end, almost cueing the audience for an applause. I'm sick of them. The movie starts off with one of those, "Khaana banaana duniya ki sabsi badi kala hai..." -- you've probably seen it in the adverts.
- The excruciatingly irritating kid, called "Sexy" in the movie will make you want to pull your hair out. Or stab her to death (in my case). I usually don't like the stupid kids that are there just for adding the cute element to the movie. And to voice heavily philosophical dialogues sugar-coated by their ostensible innocence and irritating lisp. For example, Ta Ra Rum Pum, Kucch Kucch Hota Hai, (insert any Karan Johar/Aditya Chopra/Yash Raj movie here)
- The movie is bloody long. In Bollywood, there is no excuse for making a three hour boring movie without songs.
- Delhi is NOT situated between Qutub Minar and India Gate.
- The plot had a lot of potential. The starcast was amazing. But surprisingly, the movie was a total fuck-up!
Monday, May 28, 2007
Cheeni Kum: Review
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Ah! saurabh u really
ReplyDeletescared me ...
have already booked 30 tickets (not to forget gold class)
for my office
wish i wud have read ur review earlier...
that "Sexy" kid was so irritating!
ReplyDeleteabbe! u've just lost it in Bombay. This was a GOOD movie.
ReplyDelete- The chemistry was not there?? boss history geography, everything was there
- The child was called 'sexy' so that the last scene was still funny for some people. 'maa mujhe sexy chahiye'
- Shangrila is the best hotel in delhi. yummy food. dunno how balki got to know that
- chacha ko condum do and susu scene were rock stars
Oh, hey! I've actually visited your blog before and read this review. I can't remember what link directed me to your site, but I remember readin this Chini Kum review.
ReplyDeleteNice post! You have said it very well. Keep going.
ReplyDeleteAmitabh is busy acting in all ads (almost ads of allll products) and he might have thought this film is one of his ad
ReplyDeleteYou seem to be out of your mind, you brain-fucked, non-appreciative jerk. Cheeni Kum, as I see it, is probably one of the best movies of the year. Although I'm not a Bachchan fan, I have to admit that he was terrific in this movie. And so was Tabu. If not excellent, they shared a pretty good on-screen chemistry.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but that kid sure was a little annoying in some scenes. But an excellent movie nonetheless.
spot on. i passionately hate the obligatory "cute chile spouting profound truths" concept, and honestly wish i could strangle stupid sexy and shut her up... no wonder god gave her blood cancer!
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