Happy New Year Reader Reviews

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Babaji Ka Thullu’s Happy New Year Review

So i went to the theatre last evening with 2 different mindsets- The trailer was mediocre but indicine rated it 4 stars,so i was quite sceptical about the film.
I will be writing a hort review here coz no one likes to read a long one i guess.

STORY:Story of HNY is almost same as that of Dhoom 3 but with a different premise..the only difference being in D3 aamir was avenging for Jackie Shroff and here srk is taking revenge from Jackie shroff! still the story is pretty decent considering it is a Farah khan film.

DIRECTION:Farah Khan does an appreciable job as HNY is consistently engaging enough.Yes there are sequences that could have been avoided.Fight sequences were overstretched ones and neither appealing.

CINEMATOGRAPHY:HNY has been shot very well.Right from the first scene it gives a look of a big budget film,dubai has been captured well.

PERFORMANCES:SRK is as usual brilliant in this film,does well in emotional scenes but it is Abhishek Bachchan and Sonu Sood who are fab.Both are outstanding in their roles.Boman is also very good.Deepika is’nt as quite good as she was in CE but still does a commendable job.Vivaan is decent in his short role while Jackie Shroff is menacing enough for a villain.

MUSIC:Though many might disagree here but Satakli was the song i enjoyed the most followed by Manwaa lage and Lovely.Overall songs are decent and look good on big screen.

I was also elated to see “Babaji ka thullu” being said thrice.Also we get to see two of our indicine visitors in HNY.We get a glimpse of our dear Navin uncle,he was there with the Great Britain team to take part in WDC with some broad thigh girls,yes he was the same guy who kissed Boman while swapping the rooms.Also we get to see one of the many Dynamic’s impersonation of Nipun “Ni pung from Korea”..yes he was the little guy whom SRK saved from falling!!
But all is not well in HNY.There are logical lapses which can’t be ignored and even the people sitting beside me pointed these for ex:How did Charan Grover and WDC organizers never recognized Nandu Bhide?? Also the film is too lengthy,it takes you to sit for more than 3hrs which is really tedious and bcoz this the film lacks a repeat value and which i think is now evident from its dropping collections.

But still overall HNY is a complete family entertainer,though vulgar at times but still manages to win your heart.
POSITIVES:

• 1)Performance of the whole cast
• 2)Comedy Scenes of Nandu Bhide(specially his stripping act)
• 3)Music is decent
• 4)Film looks grand
• 5)The build up to the heist
• 6)Vishal and Anurag’s cameo

NEGATIVES:

• 1)Too lengthy
• 2)Lacks repeat value
• 3)Fight sequences are’nt appealing
• 4)Vulgarity in a family entertainer

Rating: 3.25 stars

Nipun’s Happy New Year Review

Happy New Year, directed by Farah Khan is among the most awaited movies of the year. The director is back with her favourite superstar SRK through it. Does HNY live upto the expectation? Okay, let’s find .
Happy New Year is the story of a boxer Charlie (Shahrukh Khan) who wants to pull off the biggest robbery to take revenge of his father(Anupam Kher)’s death. For this, he creates a team with other five people: a half-deaf guy Jag(Sonu Sood),an old batchelor tammy(Boman Irani),ace-puker Nandu(Abhishek Bachchan), a geeky-hacker Rohan(Vivaan Shah) and a dancer(Mohini). To succeed in the mission,they have to take part in World Dance Compitition. So Mohini teaches them dancing and accordingly the story proceeds.

Director Farah Khan’s HNY is obviously better than her last movie Tees Maar Khan,but it’s not good either. The first half is okay with a few good intro-scenes of all stars. The second half is boring with a lots of manipulative sequences in the story.

This movie is absolutely poor in sense and logic. The plot is highly manipulative and unrealistic. Many questions will arise on your mind like “how the jury decided to select the team for final by seeing charlie rescuing the kid in a world dance compitition?” or “how Vivaan is hacking all those votes so easily that too in a selection for an international dance compitition,can it be possible?” and so on.The fighting parts between Sonu sood and the bodyguards will remind you of the fighting scenes of any b-grade typical masala film. The comic part works some times like at the time when charlie and his fans tries to learn the dance forms(where dancers use their toes only) and during time of Boman Irani’s Mom. But many times, the comedy simply doesn’t work.The chemistry between the male lead and female lead is decent to below average.

The cinematography was okay. They could have induced more beautiful locations. However,the stage design, costume design and the work of make up artists are praise-worthy.

Director Farah khan tries here the same formula as she did in OSO and TMK. In OSO and TMK,the characters were learning acting and shooting for the movie. Here,the characters learn dancing.She has induced some special appearances for comedy. But their parts never offer anything. The script is complicated with so many elements like action,comedy,romanc­e,revenge,petriotism­,dance,hacking and so on which is why the movie looks clumsy and problematic. Director Farah Khan has made this movie only for entertainment,But sadly it’s not offering much of entertainment at all. Even if I ignore the weak story,sense and logic , it hardly gives anything like we haven’t seen before in bollywood. HNY also includer many popular dialogues of old bollywood. The movie is absolutely predictable too.

The saving graces in the movie are the performances by the actors. SRK has given complete justice to his role even though the role never gives much scope for his acting. My favourite part in HNY is the entry of SRK in the end at the stage where he delivers some quotes about Indiawaale. Deepika plays the role of a non-english speaking girl. She played her part well. Abhishek Bachchan was hilarious at some moments. Best performances in HNY belong to both SRK and junior Bachchan. Boman Irani,Jacky Shroff and Vivaan shah were impressive in their parts. Sonu Sood was decent to good. His looks,physique were great though.

Music and Choreography, the two important parts of HNY are not impressive at all. Manwa lage is a nice song and the best one in the album. The other tracks are average at best. The background music works well.

So, over all, Happy New Year is a typical Farah Khan movie where you cann’t expect anything great. It exists to entertain. But to get entertained, you have to leave logic and sense and then we will find it “just satisfactory at best,not more than it”. It’s boring too. Watching such a movie for 3 hours is torturous.

So in my final words, despite having good performances and good costume and stage design,Happy New Year is clumsy,complicated,j­oyless,problematic, manipulative, silly and boring at some places due to its poor script. I am going with two stars. HNY is the most grandly-hyped and grandly-promoted movie. But,where is the grandeur in the movie?

Rating: 2 stars

Ajay Rocks’ Happy New Year Review

I walked into the theater expecting to see a decent film but I was little disappointed because it was typical Farah Khan Film.
I am not typically a huge fan of Farah Khan’s films however there were some negatives.
Of course Deepika’s accent was…indiscernible. I do not want to comment on whether her accent was good or not, but at times, it was tough to understand what exactly she was trying to say.she tried to hard to copy Meena ( her character in Chennai Express) but unfortunately she failed but at least her dancing was great.
Almost of the cast lives up to the hype except Sonu Sood. He was barely there and wasted . I’m sure this will be one of his worst roles till to date.
Shahrukhan is dashing but I’ll be honest with this one. he is not that kind of person that you will say wow when they take off their shirt ( I hope you will understand what I mean?).
Abhishek is colorful, Deepika plays a small, somewhat dull role, but the movie in general is slow, a little muddy, hard to understand, and justifies the crime completely. Sure, the robbery is against a sleazy guy, but still, the movie is about a bunch of losers who don’t have much going for them.

I’m not saying that the script was fairly well written It had a mediocre dialog and a weak plot. I personally thought that it was pretty predictable. The plot wasn’t as “smart” as the Ocean 11 and 12 but there were enough random “laugh scenes” to keep my attention until the climax of the movie when they actually attempt the heist. The first hour of the movie was without a doubt the best part of the movie because it was very entertaining.

The real problem with the film, though, is that it is actually after the first hour It did get slow in the middle but The conclusion saved the film because it was very good . There are many moments of suspense when you’ll wonder, “How will they get out of that one?” The film has a few surprises that fall under the “things aren’t always what they seem” category.

The fact that I’m even questioning the facts of the robbery shows that the film had its mind in the wrong place.I should be thinking about the great scenes with the thrill of watching Deepika,SRK and Abhishek in a love triangle. Instead, the entire film is about the planning of this heist (which, by the way, is completely and totally unbelievable). I won’t go into specifics here.

HNY Is not the greatest movie I have seen. While its not that bad,although it is sometimes lame and boring and Abhishek really does a good job. Has a few good jokes though.
There are several cameos by movie stars, including prabhu deva and Anurag.
HNY was good but its the kind of movie that you might watch one time. I wouldn’t be surprised if it crush on weekdays. I certainly won’t be watching it again, so that would be fine by me.

Rating: 2 stars
P.S sorry for the grammatical errors. I’m Still a Student.

YY Mithaiwala’s Happy New Year Review

what is good :

• some hilarious scenes through the film
• every actors acting, srk with the best performance but nandu is th most entertaining character
• farah khans direction — though she sucks in some parts but her direction is quiet good in others
• srk and dp’s chemistry
• last 40 minutes are just too gud
• emotions connect and humor works
• cinematography and camerawork

what is bad :

• length of the film
• first 20 minutes after intermission is crap but picks up later
• some over the top scenes
• some unnecessary scenes
• first half (not crap but ok ok for me)
• screenplay of the film

Rating: 2.5 stars

Sid-Original’s Happy New Year Review

Finally got to watch the so called Grandest movie of the Year thanx to my neighbors who are ardent SRKians..

Story: Our leader of the losers pack(SRK who carries a swag along with the abs) is a Boston University topper and is jobless as his dad was framed by the baddie(Jackie Shroff..disappointing!!!). He swears to take revenge on Jackie and 8 years later creates his own team of losers I.e Charlie’s Angels which has Nandu(Jr B..the star of the show), Jags(Sonu Sood good but underused), Tammy(Boman Irani..good but underused) and Rohan(Vivaan Shah..he was better in 7Khoon Maaf)..they are tutored by the dancer Mohini(DP..hot hot)..now Jaggu Dada challenges the robbers across the world to steal some diamonds from Atlantis Dubai..Charlies Angels accepts this challenge and fly to Dubai as dancers by bashing the judges of Dabbu DC aka WDC..will he succeed to steal the diamonds and bring down Jaggu Dada forms the rest of the story..

When i watched the movie I felt that it was like watching two separate movies..1st half was good which had flashes of trademark Farah Khan..2nd half was equally pathetic.. I felt Sajid Khan directed the second half as there was some low IQ scenes as well as a Humshakals angle..even the romantic track was forced and became an utter nonsense..i mean DP falls for SRK just coz he speaks fluent English.. Farah Khan was far better in MHN and OSO thanx to her simple storytelling added with grandeur.. but here she follows her brother’s method of filmmaking which contains nonsensical jokes and constant hamming and turns this movie into an utter bore.. cinematography and the sets were grand..but screenplay and direction were quite pathetic.. also lot of famous SRK dialogues were reused in this movie..for eg..the iconic Sattar minute dialogue from CDI..even the overdose of dances makes it tedious to sit for 3 hours..even the music was average as it didn’t have a chartbuster song..

Coming to performances. This was an average performance from our King..DP was okay..Jr B was the star of the show, Sonu Sood and Boman were good but underused.. Dino Morea overacts as the TV show host..there are cameos from Prabhudeva, Vishal Dadlani and others..even the little Abram looked very cute.. Overall HNY is nothing but recycled timepass..I would rather watch MHN & OSO on TV again than this.. Sigh!!!

Rating: (half star for Jr B)

gj007’s Happy New Year Review

HAPPY NEW YEAR: A LENGHTY AFFAIR

Farah khan has a typical narrative style. She has given typical commercial movies throughout her career. TMK was tortuous but OSO and MHN were engaging movies. Sadly HNY is a stretched affair.

PLOT: Six losers participate in a dance competition with a motive of pulling off a ‘heist’. Yeah you got it. Heist has been down too many times in past few years. Not the fault of Farah but this is one of the major issues. Audience doesn’t get any freshness in the story. They have seen other stars pulling off heist, now it’s the turn of SRK.

PERFORMANCES: Nobody’s fault here. Script takes audience for granted. Plot loopholes are too many to ignore. There are few inspired moments on screen, most of them revolving around the ever puking Nandu (Abhishek Bachchan). Sadly the leading pair SRK-Deepika get stereotyped yet again! So Deepika repeats her Chennai Express heavy accent while SRK repeats lines of his previous blockbusters one after the other. Sonu Sood tries too hard to be funny, while the newbie Vivan Shah and veteran Boman Irani are wasted.

CINEMATOGRAPHY: GRAND! One word. Hands down. This lengthy affair isn’t tedious thanks to some melodious songs and brilliant locations.

EDITING: This is THE biggest blunder. Movies with wafer thin plot can still be applauded if the editing is crisp. 2 hours and 59 minutes time is just too much. It tests your patience!

MUSIC: There aren’t any chartbuster songs here, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it quite engaging and subtle.

DIRECTION: Average. Now very bad not very good. There are some funny scenes, interesting dance sequences but the pace of the story isn’t maintained by the director. For me, the emotional scenes were flat. I laughed genuinely in funny scenes but the emotional sequences seemed forced.

FINAL VERDICT: It’s a very average movie, neither fresh like Main hoon na nor annoying like Tees Maar Khan. Actors try their level best to engage you but the dragged moments in second half are a major let-down.

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