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Always Kabhi Kabhi

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Director           Roshan Abbas
Cast                 Ali Fazal, Satyajeet Dubey, Giselli Monteiro, Zoa Morani, Pritika Chawla, Navneet Nishan, Vijay Raaz, Akash Khurana, Lillete Dubey, Satish Shah, Ashwin Mushran, Manoj Joshi, Mukesh Tiwari,
Year                2011
Genre              RomCom

Dear Roshan Abbas – When someone makes his first movie it should ideally be an original story line.  If not there should be at least some semblance of originality if not completely original. But ripping off an entire Hollywood flick to the extent that it has been – GAWD!!!! Have some shame.  We are definitely an Indian audience but we definitely have our resources to watch Hollywood flicks.  Plus the DVDs of High School Musical 1, 2 and 3 have been sold as a box pack for over 2 years now.  You have actually made Anu Malik look like a walk in the park.  Copy dude.  But copy well.  At least respect the original to the extent of replicating it well.  Each and every frame of your debut flick has been so tackily shot that after 15 minutes it doesn’t seem funny.  And your talk about speaking to the Gen Y or Gen Next or whatever you want to call them hasn’t really worked.  There were enough and more kids between 13 and 19 who were in the hall and actually struggling to get through the first half.  By the time the 2nd half started they were already contemplating an exit and planning the next hour and half in advance. 

And Roshan – the script is also written by you.  Now why would you put in dialogues such as, “IIT aur MIT mein sirg ek akshar ka farak hai” (The difference between IIT and MIT is only one alphabet) and “Life me koi keyboard ka shortcut nahin hota hai.  Isse google nahin kiya ja sakta.  Isse experience kiya jaata hai” (Life doesn’t have a shortcut key on the keyboard.  You cannot google it.  You have to experience it).  Of course there was one good dialogue somewhere in between which said, “Is generation ki nazar tab jhukti hai jab SMS milta ho” (This generation will bow its head only when it receives an SMS).  Quite deep I must say Mr. Abbas.

And do kids start drinking like fish at the age of 17 these days and walk into school with hangovers the size of Mt. Everest? Gawd if that is true then we sure are headed for some trouble soon enough. What the hell is the local government talking about an age limit of 25??????

And then there is the cast of when the guys are probably the saving grace.  All students of the St. Marks College.  Decent debuts from Ali Fazal (Shortcut Sam Sameer) and Satyajeet Dubey (Taariq Einstein Naqvi).  And the Brazilian beauty’s follow up movie has 20 times as much dialogues as the first one.  She spoke 2 lines in the first one and she speaks 40 lines in this one.  So that’s progress.  Bringing up the tail is the pocket rocket Zoa Morani (Nandini “Nandy Bull” Oberoi).  The lead cast has a meek attempt for support from the rest Pritika Chawla, Navneet Nishan, Akash Khurana, Lillete Dubey, Satish Shah & Ashwin Mushran (Why do you take these roles really???).  The ever reliable balance cast of Manoj Joshi, Mukesh Tiwari & Vijay Raaz are solid as always.  Most of the music is also quite uninspiring. Net Net, Always Kabhi Kabhi is quite a waste of 2 hours if you have seen High School Musical.  If you haven’t seen HSM then I suggest you watch it and not waste your time on AKK.  It’s a 3 on 10 from my side thanks to a couple of songs and a couple of good performances.

Watch the trailer at http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi558275865/
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