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My Views/Take on TALAASH

This Being My Most Awaited Movie this Year, I am Dissapointed to an Extent by TALAASH.

Reema Kagti’s Supposed ‘Suspense’ Turned ‘Supernatural’ Thriller Starts of Well and Builds it’s Premise Interestingly thru the Marine Drive’s and Kamatipura’s of Mumbai.

Infact, the Entire Prostitution Track Consisting of Well Cast Unknown Actors and Nawaaz is Highly Engaging and Gives a Certain Raw/Real Feel to the Movie.

But, the Relatively Slow Pace and the Unintelligent Ending[Kareena Saving Aamir inside the Water/Aamir Digging the Grave/Burning her Remains] Harm the Movie Big Time.

There was No Element of Double Crossing Or a Surprise Shock Element[An Abbas-Mustan Staple] but it Actually Took the ‘Bhoot/Aatmaien Bhatakti Hain’ Angle which was a bit Difficult to Digest.

The BG Score was Used Adequately and Still in Love with ‘Jee Le Zarra’.
Mumbai has been well Depicted.

Rani has a Small Role but Shines in her Showdown Sequence with Aamir.

All the Scenes Involving the Kid, Nawaaz and the Red Light Area were Brilliant at Different Levels.

Aamir Khan as always a Quality Acting Force Rocks the Movie with his Brooding Act and his Scenes with Kareena are A Delight.

But, Surprisingly it’s Kareena Kapoor who Steals the Show with her Teasing And Smirking and has Dialogues.

Movie Review…Talaash  (Spolier Galore)

The movie starts with an empty marine drive road in the middle of the night in Mumbai where three persons  present along with a female dog ,seems to be scared for no reason( probably they are scared off the sound of the ocean)….Off comes a car zipping from the opposite direction , bangs itself in to the cement barricades without provocation  and rolls in to the ocean ( cinematic high moment)…Needless to say the driver ,who is an actor, dies …On the face of it ,it looks like an accident but for some unknown reasons Inspector Surjan Sekhawat (aamir khan) decides to investigate the matter assuming it as murder…(probably the inspector still didn’t forget his dialogue in his previous movie…excellence ke peeche bhago)..

As the insepector who is leading a depressed life ,( as he blames himself for his sons’ death, who drowned in the river), starts investigating the case, new startling revelations surface one after another…Like, the deceased used to be a flop star before he became a hit star( new revelation) and he has got a friend whose name is kejriwal (No.. not arvind kejriwal..its sanjay kejriwal).  The moot question is why the car banged in to the barricades without provocation ??

Cast: Aamir Khan, Kareena Kaporr, Rani Mukherjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shernaz patel

Director: Reema Kagti

Length: 2.20 hours approximately

TALAASH, this week’s new thriller has lots of surprises in store, but they are not well unfolded. The genre of the film itself is a big surprise. It’s really impressive to see so many mainstream faces doing such kind of suspense drama which takes a path away from our regular suspense thrillers. From prostitute areas to high profiled people to small time gangsters, TALAASH revolves around many characters and each is well defined.

The investigation process has a solid pace and TALAASH races very speedily for first 40 minutes or so. But after a point, too many plots lands up in the film and many seem irrelevant to the basic plot. But, TALAASH doesn’t entirely lose up. It has its high moments. The emotional connection between Aamir Khan and Rani Mukherjee is smartly handled and has a meaning which you come to know once the film is ended with its major twist!

Second half has again many edge-off-the-seats moments like that excellent chase sequence on railway station to the construction building. But the major clutch remains in its conviction factor.

Director: Reema Kagti

Cast: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shernaz Patel, Rajkumar Yadav

Synopsis: Armaan Kapoor, a film star, dies in a car accident and Surjan Singh Shekhawat (Aamir Khan) is the cop handling the investigation. Surjan and his wife (Rani Mukerji) are going through an emotional crisis since their son’s death. Rosie (Kareena Kapoor) is a prostitute who keeps helping Surjan in his investigation. The movie is basically about closure.

Some scenes are very good like the interrogation scenes or Aamir’s interaction with the brothel owner or the scenes between Aamir and Kareena or the scene where Rajkumar Yadav gets stuck in between Aamir and Rani’s confrontation. The kid’s death scene and the scenes of Aamir imagining how he could have averted the boat accident are excellent. The best scene of the movie however is the climax scene in the car.

Now the flaws. The movie is basically inspired from The Sixth Sense. Not sure why they had to get inspired from a movie that is so famous in India. There is a scene where Shernaz Patel tries to tell Aamir something which seemed straight out of The Sixth Sense. There is a chase scene involving the limping Temur (Nawaz) which kind of drags a bit.