BLUE: Movie Review

HOW THEY 'BLUE' 100 CRORES

BLUE

*ing Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Zayed Khan, Lara Dutta

Music: A R Rehman

Sound Design: Resul Pookutty

Hindi movies usually don’t give much thought to actual character build up or proper characterization.
Instead they try to cover that up by giving the characters some kind of odd traits like a stammer (SRK in Darr) a limp (Sanjay Dutt in Saajan) or mannerism (think Gulshan Grover in all his movies) or some one-liners like Amrish Puri (Mogambo khus hua), Anil Kapoor (Jhakaas) or failing which, they are dressed in some trademark style like stylish shades (almost all of Sanjay Gupta films) or skimpy clothes (almost all of Ram Gopal Verma’s heroines).

Similarly in Blue most of the characters keep talking about things they want to BLOW up while Akshay’s character is the only one who talks in the past tense and says BLEW.

I presumed this to be another crazy trait sketched for his character by the dumb director until I realized that all the while Akshay was actually saying Blue.

And in the dark of the theatre I managed to squeeze out a small grin.
But that, i’m afraid, is the only entertaining bit in this 100 crore movie.

To be fair, there are a few things worth noticing like Lara Dutta looking like.... well lets just say 100 crores, the underwater cinematography by Peter Zuccharini of Pirates of the Caribbean, Lara in stunning swimwear, the very un-hindi background score and did I mention Lara Dutta? But only when she is not speaking though. And not to forget the stunning Bond-ish song Rehnuma.

However the negatives far outweigh the positives.

1) Sanjay Dutt looking haggard with a paunch and two things, which for wont of a better word can only be described as man-boobs.
2) Zayed Khan who has about 25 scenes in the movie which unfortunately is about 24 scenes too many.
3) Zayed Khan who has only 1 expression for every scene and every emotion.
4) The sharks who are so docile they seem almost pet-able.
5) Some truly God-awful dialogues.
6) Kylie wasted in what must certainly rate as AR Rehman’s worst song: Jiggy Wiggy
7) Lara Dutta being asked to speak.
8) The title “Blue” being pronounced in a hundred different ways.

By the way, apart from denoting a colour, the word BLUE can also be used as an adjective to describe a feeling of sadness or melancholy and I have a feeling that if you spend your hard earned money on this movie, that’s exactly how you’ll end up feeling.

But maybe that's not so bad.... after all you could also end up feeling Blew.

Phew.

Till next time

Luv or should i say Loue

Vish