Don't bet on this team to win anything.

Grade: F

Team – The Force

Indian Release Date: 5/06/09
CBFC Classification:  U
Running Length: 1 Hour 55 Minutes

Cast: Sohail Khan, Yash Tonk, Vrajesh Hirjee, Amrita Arora, Sayaji Shinde, Mukesh Tiwari, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Aarti Chhabria  
Director: Ajay Chandok
Screenplay: Yunus Sejawal
Cinematography: Najeeb Khan
Music: Dabboo Malik

After giving us the unwatchable disaster Kisse Pyaar Karoon earlier this year, director Ajay Chandok returns with yet another wreck of a movie unimaginatively titled, Team – The Force. This catastrophe is part of the last batch of movies which will be dumped into the theatres before the multiplex strike got called off. Made somewhere around 2004, the movie never saw the light of the day & after watching it, I can easily understand why (though I didn’t need to watch it to figure it out).

Like Kisse Pyaar Karoon, the story this time too revolves around three friends (plus it again has Yash Tonk & Aarti Chhabria in the cast). Raj (Sohail Khan), Yash (Yash Tonk) & Jassi (Vrajesh Hirjee) live in Mumbai trying to make their dreams of cutting a music album come true. They live in a rented house owned by a rather generous old man (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) , who not only doesn’t charge them any rent but also gives them the money meant for his own daughter’s wedding & his car so that they can make a music video in Goa (Mauritius stands in for Goa), clearly the old man has lost it! But trouble soon comes knocking at his door when an underworld don who goes by the moniker of Raman Bhai (Sayaji Shinde) threatens ‘Old Man Bill’ & his family with dire consequences unless they hand him over their house. Our trio of buffoons takes it upon themselves to teach the Don a lesson & do so by kidnapping his sister (Amrita Arora) & start harassing him to pay a heavy ransom for her. Lightly the plot can be called a bastard child of A Wednesday & Kidnap with a little bit of Chasme Badoor (A scene is directly “inspired” from the film) thrown in.

The movie clearly doesn’t belong in 2009, heck, it doesn’t even belong in 2004 when It was made. Probably if released in 1985, the movie would have felt right at home. Every aspect of the movie, be it technical or creative is outdated beyond belief. Even the opening credits look like the ones Hello (2008) discarded. I know the movie isn’t supposed to appeal to anyone with even an iota of a brain hence the absolutely illogical plot is forgiven but there is no fun element or any form of entertainment to substitute that in the film whatsoever. Underworld Dons who are supposed to control entire cities still harass one small grocery store owner for ‘hafta’, guys who sing songs with lyrics like “Kya item hai baap! Yeh Model hai tip-top!” & nearly molest the girl still manage to impress her with their “dedication to truth & justice” (sic!) & once any form of danger arises in the movie , the hero immediately turns into a hybrid of Rambo, James Bond & Jason Bourne all rolled into one, but why nitpick when clearly the movie’s aim was only to make the audience laugh by putting out as many vulgar and cheap jokes which the lame script can muster.

The acting by all is uniformly beyond bad with the exception of Sayaji Shinde who did manage to get a laugh or two out of me during one of his interactions with his henchmen. The girls are there only for eye candy & to gyrate to the terrible songs which sound like clones of dance numbers from other movies. Funnily I didn’t understand why Kulbhushan Kharbanda’s voice had to be dubbed by some other artist.

Clearly Team – The Force should not even be on your mind when thinking bout watching a film, it isn’t much of a watch by itself & nor does it provide much unintentional laughs that it can watched together with a group of friends and ripped apart for fun. All the movie leaves with you is a splitting headache.

Final Verdict: This team couldn’t win a medal even if it was the only one running in the race.

Grade: F               

 

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