No Zing Thing
I went to see Aaja Nachle last night. I was really looking forward to it. I'm not a Madhuri Dixit fan, as in I won't go see a film because she's known for good quality cinema or anything, but I do enjoy watching her dance. A trained Kathak dancer, she's worked with some of the best. The girl can move (you'll see when you take your eyes off her stuffed bra).
Rajiv Masanad, a CNN-IBN critic did a Top-10-Madhuri-Dances list here. I don't quite have 10 favorites but my most memorable numbers are (in order of preference):
1. Mar Dala (Devdas) -- Beautiful Kathak. I went to youtube to watch this number again, I love it. A lot of the credit also goes to the choreography, set, and presentation. Other actresses have done elaborate mujra numbers, they don't compare at all.
2. Choli ke Peeche (Khalnayak) -- my favorite folk dance number. As a kid, dancing to folk choreographies were my favorite. When I was a kid, I told my Kathak master I wanted to dance to this song, same steps as Madhuri's. Scandalised, he rattled of a speech about "aak ki generation" to my parents....haha.
3. Dola re Dola (Devdas) -- Ignore Aishwarya (though good effort). This choreography was composed by Pt.Birju Maharaj and his team and was a mega project with the number of back up dancers, costumes, and sequences that were weaving in and out of each other. Madhuri was, again, a treat to watch.
4. Ek Do Teen (Tezaab) -- I think I like this number because it's been close to my heart since the age of 10-11. I remember dancing to this song at my cousin's wedding copying Madhuri step to step. For years, it became "my number".
So I took myself to Aaja Nachle thinking the trailer looks uninspiring and the story sounds like a half-hearted effort, but I am just going for the "item number".
I haven't been this bored in a film in a long time. Even Om Shanti Om was more entertaining. But I was forcing myself to stay awake waiting for my item number. The credits started rolling at the end and I couldn't believe it.
Rajiv Masand hits it on spot:
"Sadly, for a film about dance, this one has only one reasonably memorable dance piece, and even that pales in comparison to the actress' superhit item numbers of the past. The 20-minute-plus climatic dance opera at the end is a tad long, and fails to hold your interest....."
Speaking about dancing, however, the highlight of the entire film was Vinay Pathak's 2 minutes on center stage. It was a TREAT to watch him get down, he's surprisingly very good.
Vinay Pathak was also responsible for the cringe moment of the film where he takes off his shirt to seduce his wife and jumps on top of her.
All in all, every minute of the film lacked even a hint of the-Zing-thing quality.
Anil Mehta, the director was probably uninterested or bullied by external factors. The story must have been written in Jaideep Sahni's sleep. The cinematography, costumes, dialogs, all had zero class. So unless you're one of those people who's world is complete when Madhuri is on screen, don't watch it.
Rajiv Masanad, a CNN-IBN critic did a Top-10-Madhuri-Dances list here. I don't quite have 10 favorites but my most memorable numbers are (in order of preference):
1. Mar Dala (Devdas) -- Beautiful Kathak. I went to youtube to watch this number again, I love it. A lot of the credit also goes to the choreography, set, and presentation. Other actresses have done elaborate mujra numbers, they don't compare at all.
2. Choli ke Peeche (Khalnayak) -- my favorite folk dance number. As a kid, dancing to folk choreographies were my favorite. When I was a kid, I told my Kathak master I wanted to dance to this song, same steps as Madhuri's. Scandalised, he rattled of a speech about "aak ki generation" to my parents....haha.
3. Dola re Dola (Devdas) -- Ignore Aishwarya (though good effort). This choreography was composed by Pt.Birju Maharaj and his team and was a mega project with the number of back up dancers, costumes, and sequences that were weaving in and out of each other. Madhuri was, again, a treat to watch.
4. Ek Do Teen (Tezaab) -- I think I like this number because it's been close to my heart since the age of 10-11. I remember dancing to this song at my cousin's wedding copying Madhuri step to step. For years, it became "my number".
So I took myself to Aaja Nachle thinking the trailer looks uninspiring and the story sounds like a half-hearted effort, but I am just going for the "item number".
I haven't been this bored in a film in a long time. Even Om Shanti Om was more entertaining. But I was forcing myself to stay awake waiting for my item number. The credits started rolling at the end and I couldn't believe it.
Rajiv Masand hits it on spot:
"Sadly, for a film about dance, this one has only one reasonably memorable dance piece, and even that pales in comparison to the actress' superhit item numbers of the past. The 20-minute-plus climatic dance opera at the end is a tad long, and fails to hold your interest....."
Speaking about dancing, however, the highlight of the entire film was Vinay Pathak's 2 minutes on center stage. It was a TREAT to watch him get down, he's surprisingly very good.
Vinay Pathak was also responsible for the cringe moment of the film where he takes off his shirt to seduce his wife and jumps on top of her.
All in all, every minute of the film lacked even a hint of the-Zing-thing quality.
Anil Mehta, the director was probably uninterested or bullied by external factors. The story must have been written in Jaideep Sahni's sleep. The cinematography, costumes, dialogs, all had zero class. So unless you're one of those people who's world is complete when Madhuri is on screen, don't watch it.
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If Sukesh reads this he's going to have an orgasm all over the screen.
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