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Grade: D

Karzzz

Indian Release Date: 17/10/08
CBFC Classification (Should have been banned):  U/A
Running Length (Wasted!): 2 Hours 30 Minutes

Cast: Himesh Reshammiya, Urmila Matondkar, Shweta Kumar, Dino Morea, Bhaktyaar Irani, Gulshan Grover, Danny Denzongpa.
Director (On Auto-Pilot!): Satish Kaushik
Original Music (Torture!): Himesh Reshammiya

When I first heard about the remake of a cult movie such as Karz (1980), I thought to myself, “You can’t go wrong with something like that.” Later when I saw the trailers of Kar'zzz', I thought, “Well, it might not be that bad.” But, my dear friends with all the optimism in my Herculean heart I couldn't help saying - STOP!

Something that has worked wonders in cinema for one era may not entice another era as much, but when you top it with really bad dialogues, over the top acting, a ‘Mozart’ian villain and ten songs with spine chilling lyrics, what you get is something you can very much sleep through.

To say I didn't enjoy the movie would be unfair. It is interesting to notice the attention that has been made to maintain the details from the original movie with just little fine-tunes keeping in mind the decade that it has been re-made in(not to mention the legendary song - Ek Hasina, has not been touched by a lyric).

The movie begins with Dino Morea playing Ravi Verma, the son of a late rich man, who has just won a case against a very filmy villain with musical keyboard for a hand, called Sir Juda. An excited Ravi Verma along with his newly espoused bride, Kamini (Urmila Matondkar) head home to his family in Cape Town on their own little jet plane which has just one parachute. The plane, wary to the knowledge of Ravi Verma, has been vitiated by his wife who jumps off the crashing plane with the one parachute and a lifetime access to his bank account. Ravi Verma on the other hand fatally crashes with his plane next to a ‘Kali Maa ka Mandir’, leaving behind his mother cursing ‘Kali Maa’ and his sister distraught.

We are then rolled 25 years into the future, with Ravi Verma reincarnated as super star singer, Monty played by Himesh Reshamiya. Monty is this abandoned & unloved person, depressed with his celebrity status (It is after all very sad to die one day as Dino and be born another as Himesh). After a fainting spell during one of his performances he is suggested to go for a vacation to Kenya (by his irritatingly wannabe friend, played by Bakhtyaar Irani). Here I would like to mention about Himesh' love interest in the movie, Shweta Whatshername - An easily forgettable character, played by an easily forgettable actor. So the movie then proceeds with a painfully boring love ballad between the two, with lines that will make you whine. This till Himesh is introduced to Tina's caretaker Princess Kamini who is none other than his old-school wife who killed him in the life before. It is then he is hit with complete realization of his past life history, details so accurate to the eating habits of his wife, their intimate life and of course, the location of his property papers. He then with the help of Kabir Chacha, (Danny Denzongpa) and his long lost but newly found mother & sister plans revenge against Princess Kamini and her honcho, Sir Juda. The story is well known to those who have seen the original & numerous other reincarnation flicks.

I’m not even going to bother telling you all the gory details about how idiotic the movie & the characters that populate it are. People shoot pistols while flying a plane, talk by musical notes, play electric guitars without plugging them in & sing impromptu songs with lyrics like ‘Tandoori Nights’, actually they might be geniuses I’m not aware of with so much mental & physical talent. Talking of talent the most irritating & talent-less act in the entire movie is by Bhaktyaar Irani as Monty’s friend who through out acts like a little rabbit on drugs throughout & even trying to pull off a Cyrus Broacha in one scene towards the end. He should probably stick to yelling at his wife on reality T.V. dance shows. The only ones to rise above this pile of crap is Danny Denzongpa as the Hindi-movie-lines spewing encyclopedia Kabir Chacha & Dino Morea in his brief but well acted role.

All in all, with the most mediocre performances, ten songs which drag the movie to hell & back and unbearable dialogues, I wouldn’t recommend this movie unless you are a Dino Morea fan or you want to show your support to Himesh Reshammiya & want him to make Aap Ka Suroor 2!!! (Ahhhhhhhh nooooooo!!!! faints)


Final Verdict: Don’t watch this unless you want to have nightmares from this lifetime to another.

Grade: D

 

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