Cine Talk Back to the future

Film: ActionReplayy

Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Akshay Kumar, Aditya Roy Kapoor

Writer-Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah

Hollywood and Bollywood, despite similarities in their names, hardly have anything in common. Except that the latter often borrows concepts from its older cousin. Yet, it manages to make something different from the original. Action Replayy is an example of that.

When proposed to, Bunty (Aditya Roy Kapoor) refuses to marry his girlfriend because he has seen his parents Kishan (Akshay Kumar) and Mala (Aishwarya Rai) fight since he was born. Even on their 35th marriage anniversary, they fight as if they were sworn enemies. A determined Bunty steals a ride on a time machine invented by his girlfriend’s grandfather to go back in time to make it all right.

Doing this will be tougher than he had imagined, as he finds his parents very different from what they are today. Parenting one’s parents, Bunty would realise, is the toughest job in the whole wide world.

The basic premise isn’t new. Even before Back To The Future made it famous, travelling to the past to correct one’s present was staple food of science fictions. It is, after all, the ultimate human fantasy.

What is new is how Action Replayy lays bare the