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September 05, 2014
Movie Review: Raja-Natwarlal
BY SHUBHRA GUPTA NEW DELHI (IE):A caper flick necessarily has to do a couple of things: it has to have some surprises, and it has to be fun. On neither of these counts ‘Raja Natwarlal’ comes up trumps. This is a film that telegraphs its punches right from scene one – you know exactly how the con is being played out, and who the accomplice is. And that is how it goes. You can tell what’s going to happen next even before the present scene is over. Raja (Emraan Hashmi) is a smalltime card-sharp who wants to leap
into bigger game. A ploy to do just that goes horribly wrong, leaving him to plot the downfall of cricket-mad bad guy Vardha (Kay Kay Menon). Along comes reluctant guru (Paresh Rawal) to hand out some pro-tips to our hero, and we know how this will end. The middle is stuffed with tepid scenes featuring Raja’s girl (Humaima Mallick) who shakes her stuff in a dance-bar, the con artists getting together and flinging their net, and a couple of corrupt cops who want in on the action, and the planning of the sting. Emraan Hashmi has worked with
the director before and the two have done a film (Jannat) which features cricket and the back-room shenanigans that happen when big matches are played. Cricket crops up again. So does hammy villainy: Kay Kay sports a Dawoodstyle moustache, and vamps it up. Zeeshan Ayub, so good in ‘Raanjhana’, shows up with a gun in his hand, and wanders about aimlessly. There are just a couple of smooth moments. But it’s mostly seen-anddone-before stuff in a plot that shows its holes every once in a while: same old South African safari, same old Hashmi with the busy mouth but even the kisses seem standard, and a Mallick (familiar to Indian audiences from the high-pitched Pakistani melodrama ‘Bol’) who should have been used better. Dialogues such as this ancient one abound: ‘machli ke moon mein kaanta phans chuka hai’. Groan. Just where have all the writers gone? You go in hoping for a fun ride. What you get is a limp con job.
Boman Gets Police Protection After Threat from Underworld
Bollywood actor Boman Irani has been provided police protection after he allegedly received a threat call from fugitive underworld don Ravi Pujari. “Boman Irani has received threat call from Pujari and we have provided him security. We are investigating the case,” a senior police official said without specifying the nature of the threat. Irani’s movie Happy New Year, in which he co-stars with Shah Rukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone, is scheduled for
release in October. On August 23, three people had opened fire outside the residence of film producer Ali Morani in suburban Juhu. Two days later, Pujari had allegedly called superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s production house Red Chillies and passed on a message to the actor. Pujari told Khan’s staff to tell the actor to stay away from Morani, police had earlier said. The gangster is known to make calls to builders and film personalities. -Times of India
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