Blue: Hindi film 2009: A Post Mortem :(
Weekends are a luxury for any professional slogging for five days a week. Yes, it's that time of a week when I get a much wanted late morning sleep ... actually pine for it. On the 22nd of Nov, I took some time off to watch the latest movie 'Blue'. Pls dont be surprised at this decision or action of mine. Let me explain this!! I had read the movie reviews everywhere, but somehow could not satiate my curiosity to see the 1st Indian underwater action movie. So finally I plunged in to the desire!! So here's my opinion...
If you ask me about the plot... in a word, I will call it patchy and extremely weak.. the suspense created in the beginning fizzles out ultimaltely and too quickly.. Basically there is no story at all. The screenplay is appalling to say the least. It illustrates the director's intention to please the viewers by packing in luscious beaches and the awesome Lara Dutta for some visual delight. Seems Mr Anthony D'Souza had forgotten, in today's parlance, CONTENT is KING and nothing else sells, and brings in some moolah for the hit-starved Bollywood. The cast including Akshay kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Zayed Khan and Rahul Dev Verma (exclaiming- 'where was this guy so long'!!) are wasted.
But the scenes under water are definitely a feast for the eyes. Indeed similar cinematography is rare in Indian cinema. We are sure both Akshay and Sanjay are capabale of even more exemplary performances.
About Lara Dutta, I can only wonder, what made her sign this film.. 'was she in need of money and work, that she signed this film'. She defnitely has more to offer that being just an arm candy of the leading man and flashing those perfect curves of hers. And frankly speaking, though the director wants us to believe Sanjay is cash-strapped, his beautiful house damaged by Gulshan (Rahul) hardly proves so.
Katrina in her 'blink- and-you- will - miss-me' act looked gorgeous as usual.
At Blue's debacle, I feel sorry for the enormous amount of money invested in this film- 80 crores.. even 10% of this money would have contributed to some poor family's welfare. And what has happened to A R Rahman? He is a brilliant composer, but only one song of this movie can hope to be a chartbuster.
In short, like the "Lady in Blue' that sinks in the beginnig of this movie, Blue too sinks without a trace!!
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