Last weekend, I watched SOAL at Houston. It was a pitiable idea of one of my friends and the movie was pathetic. The hype and the publicity lured him and forced us to watch the imbecilic acts of all the actors.
The director’s idea making a movie based real incident was applaud able. But, to make such a movie one needs to forget the commercial side of the movie. One needs to do lot of research on what happened before and during and after the incident. That was the biggest drawback of the movie. The director totally failed in refraining from bollywood masala. The goons were better at dance than at donnish acts. Songs were always interrupting the movie plot and screenplay was wretched. The artists of the movie were not at all doing justice to the characters they were playing. Especially it was a burden to see Vivek Oberoi trying to act as bhai (he tried to repeat his Chandu role from Company). For the God sake, somebody request Sunil Shetty to stop acting. To see him on the big screen with his usual dorky act was intimidating, menacing. Abhishek’s role can be done by anybody. He was there in the movie just for a phone call, pity on him.
On the whole the movie was one big disaster. The director’s idea of showing the main leads as one man show was indigestible. I am sure, in the real incident nothing would have happened the way he showed in the movie. After all police surrounded the building with ammunition and the goons were killed in the encounter, not by exchange of the punches on face. Anyway, one last advice, don’t watch the movie.
The director’s idea making a movie based real incident was applaud able. But, to make such a movie one needs to forget the commercial side of the movie. One needs to do lot of research on what happened before and during and after the incident. That was the biggest drawback of the movie. The director totally failed in refraining from bollywood masala. The goons were better at dance than at donnish acts. Songs were always interrupting the movie plot and screenplay was wretched. The artists of the movie were not at all doing justice to the characters they were playing. Especially it was a burden to see Vivek Oberoi trying to act as bhai (he tried to repeat his Chandu role from Company). For the God sake, somebody request Sunil Shetty to stop acting. To see him on the big screen with his usual dorky act was intimidating, menacing. Abhishek’s role can be done by anybody. He was there in the movie just for a phone call, pity on him.
On the whole the movie was one big disaster. The director’s idea of showing the main leads as one man show was indigestible. I am sure, in the real incident nothing would have happened the way he showed in the movie. After all police surrounded the building with ammunition and the goons were killed in the encounter, not by exchange of the punches on face. Anyway, one last advice, don’t watch the movie.
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