The only thing that made me go
and watch Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet is the curiosity to see Karan Johar
acting. Now that I have watched the movie, I still maintain that the only thing
that anybody should watch this movie for is to see Karan acting – he definitely
acted well, at least way better than my expectations.
Ok! On a second thought, to say
that there is nothing good about the movie apart from Karan’s acting would be being
extremely critical. Let me just say that there are quite a few things in the
movie that are really good – the cinematography, the sound effects, the background
scores and the music; however these elements at best can only play the role of
enhancers in a movie and cannot hold the movie together on their own.
Let me draw an analogy here. Make-up can only enhance the beauty of a
women and cannot define her as an individual. She can chose to wear very light
make-up or no makeup at all and still create a lasting impression with her
poise, her unadulterated beauty and her strength of character. Likewise a movie
can survive with a bare minimum quality of cinematography, sound effects, back
ground scores and music but without strong screenplay and acting and direction
it will fall flat.
Bombay Velvet’s biggest short
coming was its screenplay. The weakness of this single element brought down the
charm of the movie even when the other core elements like direction and acting
were good enough.
If there is anything from this
movie that will remain with me for a long time is its music – with each piece
that Amit Trivedi composes I become a bigger fan of him. My favorite one from this movie is Naak Pe Gussa.
Bombay Velvet gets a 2/5 from me.
It’s a movie you will not regret missing. If you are one of those who do not
like movies where you have to stress your brain to understand the flow of the
story, totally skip this one.
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