Ho hum! There you go - the whole movie summed up in just two words. After "Refugee" landed on its back, one was hoping against hope that the star son of Amitabh and Jaya would deliver in his second flick, Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya. But boy! Was the movie disappointing or what? Picture Imperfect is what this is - a horrible remake of the Jennifer Aniston starrer "Picture Perfect". The movie is enough to make any strong man weep -- why do moviewalas think that a few shots of "phoren" scenes are enough to wow the Indian audience?
The desi version of the story isn't much to write home about - Kabir is a poor videographer who is the darling of Agra, his hometown. He meets Pooja when she comes to Agra to attend the wedding of a friend. It is "love" at first sight for him, though all Pooja does is look pretty in posh clothes. She returns to Mumbai, where she is working in the creative department of an ad agency. She is this big dreamer waiting for her dream man to come into her life clad in an Armani and take her away in his brand new Mercedes, dreaming at the same time of winning awards as the Best Ad Film Director!
While Kabir dreams of his love, Pooja fibs to her boss that she got engaged (to Kabir, surprise!) in Agra, to save her job. That is when she meets her "dream man", the boss's son Ravi Oberoi (Sanjay Suri does a slick job.). She moons for him like a teeny-bopper and one fine day, decides to confess to her lie, when who else but Kabir lands in the metro, saving Pooja's boss Mr. Oberoi, oodles of cash in the bargain as well?!
It actually gets worse from here. The whole movie is one big mess of dances, songs, fights, so called emotional scenes and what not. The director seems to have gone to sleep way before the first shot was taken and the music from Ismail Darbar is such a belly flop, especially when you compare it with his previous effort, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam. The costume design is just too awful for words. One shudders to think what folks in fashionable Paris
would have thought when they saw Kirti Reddy and Abhishek Bachchan dancing with a horde of dancers, clad in absolute eyesores.
The whole movie is amateurish from the word go. The ad agency set up looks as phoney as it can get. Whoever said creative guys must be covered in yards of fuzz? Ye Gods! Johnny Lever is plain irritating in his role as Pooja's chum Maggie. And Kirti Reddy? The less said the better!! The poor girl is too wooden for her own good and it is obvious to everyone -- except her, apparently -- that she can't act to save her life! It's time she went back to her day job.
No amount of Jadoo can save this movie!
Lavanya
