Why I watched this: hello! What am I supposed to do if I’m over and done with the entire stock of lastesht movies ? pirates? Check. cheeni kum? Check. Oceans 13? Check! What is a poor mortal soul supposed to do when u wanna kill time with SOME sorta entertainment (however obscure!) and u got a pal inspiring (nagging) you to do so!
DERAILED: the story of the original Hollywood flick:
Jennifer Aniston (in a never before role, trust me), and Clive Owen. Owen’s married, weighed down, in a tight spot in life where his little kid’s living on machines to keep her from dying, has just been yanked off his account in his strenuous advertising job, is tight for money as he’s putting all his life’s savings together to purchase a replacement for his kid’s kidneys, and has a strained relationship with his wife, as they’re finding it difficult to cope. His life’s suspended in mid-air, where it seems everything’s on hold, and is waiting for SOME good news to come across.
Living his mundane life, he bumps across Aniston in a train to work. She offers to pay for his ticket as he’s out of cash. They introduce each other to one another, they talk abt their respective kids, spouses and move on. She intrigues him. He looks her up, calls her, meets up. He husband “works late”. She seems mature, some one who he can talk to about his problems. They go to a bar to have a drink or two, both feeling awkward to do something they’ve never done. One thing leads to another, and they hop in a cab to make a head way to the closest hotel… they start warming up to each other, and suddenly, they have a mugger in the hotel room with a gun pointed at her head!
He takes their cash. Their wallets. Their cards. Knocks around the guy and rapes the girl.
The morning after they find themselves in a state of agony. The agony of the rape, and the agony of the fact that he couldn’t protect her.
The next day the mugger calls him. Asks for big money... and that’s how the extortion starts. They can’t go to the cops, tell their spouses, as they did indeed indulge in sin…
Well ! the first half did startle the you-know-what outta me… I mean can some thing like this really happen?!! U go on with the rest of the movie, which unfolds further twists in the tale… somber, serious, keeps you hooked, although not a must watch, but definitely worth a watch!
The Train.
Welcome to the emraan hashmi scene to scene inspiration of the above Hollywood flick. A very desi version, set so OBVIOUSLY set in Bangkok.
Highlights!!! .......................dhyaan se padhna !
1. The wife: tall, decent figure, ugly, with a constant expression of SO WHAT if me’z got an atrocious taste in lipsticks & me can’t act for nuts! me’z on a holiday in Bangkok & me’z been deep-kissed multiple times by emraan!
2. The other woman: tall, decent figure, relatively better looking, with a constant expression of me’z got a BETTER taste in lipsticks and me can even act BETTER! So what if me’z been kissed fewer times by emraan!
3. Emraan hashmi: well guys. This guy’s good! I’m highly impressed by his acting prowess! Perhaps it’s the effect of dead pan actors around him… he was a lotta levels ABOVE them, OR at least SOME ONE thought he should try doing a decent job! Well, one thing I can say is he can make a kissing scene look pretty okay in spite of ugly wooden actresses!
4. Latesht cost cutting techniques with respect to clothes:
i. Apart from settling down to reeeeally tiny clothes, make both actresses share em! Yes the girls wear the same mini skirts. (Very confusing man, its difficult to distinguish between em, can’t keep judging the level of garishness of their lipsticks ALL THE TIME!)
ii. The sari without the sari. Yep. The ‘other’ woman wears a blouse that is clearly a sari blouse with “chimki” on it with a petticoat that’s cut to the size of a micro mini… With the buttons on her blouse already looking ripped she obviously looks positively raped. Ahem! That’s BEFORE the rape scene. They didn’t have to do much AFTER the rape scene u see. (Wow! Whattan innovative technique!)
5. The songs- Shoot me! How bad can it be! I mean HOW BAD. With girls having no clue on the basics of shaking a leg, a voice that goes flat and the girls with long mop-like hair flowing… which no hair spray on this earth can save.
Well, as you can see I have no 6th highlight! Needless to say, avoid this flick, UNLESS u find yourself in a tricky situation like the one I was in! IF the story intrigues you and the curious cat in you’s dying to know what happens next, watch the original !