Certainly, the puppy love between an older man and a young girl renders every single sole present in the cinema hall speechless! Well, this silence doesn’t mean an unspoken admiration for the ‘odd couple’. But it’s an upshot of hoards of queries in their minds!
Ram Gopal verma, even after harping on the same string that this bizarre creation was not a copy of Lolita, cannot fool sharp-eyed audience any further. Instead, the director should have watched the flick (Lolita, the original one) over and over so that the DVD must now have a thousand scratches! This effort would definitely have aided him produce a great work.
Amitabh Bachchan, slipped into a passionate-photographer’s cloak, falls for his daughter’s lollypop-sucking-chum, played by Jiah Khan. When the old man beholds the young girl absolutely soaked to the skin while watering herself and not the plants, his camera does the rest. Slowly but surely, both admit their on-the-rise emotions for each other. That is still beatable. But when the illicit affair gets exposed to the family, the story confronts a major twist. Zor ka jhatka zor se laga!
The climax crosses all the boundaries, with the male protagonist still demanding to live for a few more days...in her old-age-crush’s memories! Doesn’t he care for his wife anymore, who has spent twenty-seven years of her life with him? And his daughter, who flies off to America as soon as his so-called-love becomes public? What all efforts does he go for so as to bring things in shape in his family? Nothing at all!
Apart from Amitabh’s imposing performance and the great job done by the art director and the cinematographer, the movie has nothing to serve! The director should have put the accent on the script and screenplay of the movie, rather than opting for skin-show and sordidness.
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