Race,The Review

Took a day off from work today cause I was feeling a little under the weather, so decided to watch some of the movies that have been lying unwatched, top of the list came “Race” a multi starrer that features Saif Ali,Akshaye Khanna,Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif,Anil Kapoor and Sameera Reddy.

The premise is simple, boy meets girl and gives her to his brother, cause the brother is a wanker who can’t get a girl on his own, so far so good, but after that the directors decided to deviate from the tried and tested formula perfected by Karan Johar and try to introduce some hollywoodesque twists and turns in the movie (we’ll revisit this later)

For now lets move onto the characters, I’ll decline wasting time on the minor actors in this movie like Saif,Akshaye,Bipasha and Katrina, you might be mislead into thinking that they are the stars of this movie but you’d be wrong, the real star by far is Anil Kapoor playing a big screen version of carrot chewing Karamchand on speed, only he carries it to heights that the original could only dream of,while Karamchand preferred the humble carrot from the vegetable family,Anil Kapoor (A.K.) practically makes love to every conceivable fruit he can lay his paws on,take a view of this:

Yes people that’s an apple in his hands

He walks with a big cane….sugar cane that is

During the course of the movie he also starts hitting on the Sameera Reddy character who plays his “Dumb Blonde” sidekick:

Man does not live on fruit alone

(co incidentally isn’t Sonam Kapoor,Anil Kapoor`s daughter, old enough to be Sameera Reddy`s sister?)

But then the director wasn’t really sure about the comic value of these shenanigans, so they fell back on the tried and tested (some cruel souls would say tired and wasted) hamming of Johnny Lever:

Well they were wrong to think any rescuing was needed,Anil Kapoor gave a performance that could give Dharam Paaji nightmares (see Johnny who ) ,well not really,AK has a ways to go before he can scale the peaks (not Sameera Reddy`s) that Dharamji has.

Getting back to the twists in the tale, the producers of this movie seem to have decided to err on the side of more, the story had so many twists and turns in the plot that at the end I was a little dizzy and quiet a bit nauseous. The ending was so twisted that when it came it wasn`t really surprising any more (By the way, look out for the “Fast and the Furious:Tokyo Drift” -Meets “Speed” car chase sequence)

Final Thoughts: See this movie if you are completely bored and wanna kill…nay massacre, some time, just remember to carry the motion sickness pills.