If the trailer and video are so bad, what about the film itself?
AB Wire
WASHINGTON, DC: The first music video from the Anurag Kashyap-directed film ‘Bombay Velvet’ is out: ‘fifi’ is just more terrible than even the trailer of the film. One can only feel aghast at the way one of the most beautifully rendered and mellifluous songs in Hindi film history – Jaata Kahan Hain Deewane’ by Geeta Dutt in the film ‘CID – has been mangled and distorted beyond redemption.
The bizarre way the song is sung and then hideously remixed seems as if it could be Karan Johar waking up after a hangover and wailing for help or Ranbir Kapoor finding his vocal chords after being hit with a flowerpot that fell from a floor above.
Either which way, it’s even more shocking that in the video, it seems Anushka Sharma, who seems like a Barbie doll in retro, is mouthing the words in a nightclub, as shell-shocked men gaze at her rapturously, or just stunned by the terrible singing.
Short verdict: It’s a song that would be an effective weapon, if put on a repeat mode, to make prisoners of war confess to their crimes.
The video itself, which along with the trailer, is enough dekho for the film to be avoided as a watch. It pretty much sums up the entire film, in short minutes, like the trailer did. Kapoor looks the worst boxer in history, unless the sixties, which is the period Kashyap has framed his film, was also a time for metrosexual looking men to pose as boxers and toughies. Hell no though! the sixties was the time Cassius Clay emerged. For those of you scratching their heads, Clay turned his name to Muhammad Ali later on.
The video shows also Karan Johar looking like a ‘chikna’ gangster in fab mode and K K Menon in a pistol wielding role, probably as a law enforcement fellow with a bowler hat. Sharma, for the most part, seems to just lolly around in the company of different men, speechless, content to just stare through the foolishness of the world, or perhaps wondering for the umpteenth time as to how she landed in the silly film in the first place.
Bombay Velvet will hit theaters in North America on May 15.
3 Comments
Please stop listening to music you stupid critic
how much was the writer paid to write this negative shit?. I’ll pay you more to suck my cock filthy slut. Jealous fuck holes
ha ha agree with u. its actually a nice song..