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Kasturi De @kasturisen.14

Feb 21, 2010 08:41 PM, 4482 Views

Toh Film Pakk Gayee!!

We went to watch Toh Baat Pakki to break the mundane routine of our lives but I guess we would have preferred sticking on to the monotony!

An extremely predictive story line with predictive dialogues (in fact, the lady beside me in the movie hall kept rattling out the dialogues before the actors could finish them!) and no flow in the script.

As you must’ve already guessed after watching the promos of the movie, the movie is about Tabu’s quest to find a suitable groom for her younger sister, Uvika Chaudhary. The film is set in Palanpur though there were many song scenes that were shot at Goa and Bombay. Perhaps that’s the reason why the director decided to place Palanpur boards (the yellow railway-station-kinds) at unnecessary places to make the audience believe that it has been shot there. Tabu plays the role of an over-talkative and conniving lady who manages to entice Sharman Joshi, an engineering student to stay at her place as a paying guest with a motive to get her sister married to him. Sharman Joshi seems to have lost his comb during the entire duration of the movie’s shoot or may be the director wanted Sharman to possess the untidy-college student look. Sharman falls in love with Uvika at first sight, who’s only role was to blush and give an unnecessary pout throughout the movie. Yes, she does have a fresh face but I guess either she needs to take serious acting classes or should choose modelling as a career rather than acting. When marriage cards are about to be printed, Tabu comes across a better prospect.

Vatsal, who already has roti, kapda, makaan and gaadi and thus seems the more eligible bachelor. She consequently decides to get her sister married to Vatsal instead. Vatsal’s acting is extremely amateurish and desperately tries to bring out the SRK in his acting style, failing miserably in the attempt. Ayub Khan, Tabu’s husband has no role except leaving for work and coming back home but a role that he plays with much diligence. In fact, the antique car he drives is shown more in the movie than him! The rest of the movie is not worth writing about as it is a total hotch potch. The latter half is basically about Sharman’s attempt to dissuade Himani Shivpuri, Vatsal’s mother to get her son married to Uvika. Sharat Saxena who plays Sharman’s Mamaji, does his role without any hitch but the script could have done well (or rather, equally pathetically) without him too, as could the diamond ring which appeared and disappeared without any consequence to the storyline and the plot. Though Tabu’s acting was fine, it is not going to win her any accolades or awards this year...maybe only if there a category called ‘Best actress in a scheming role’.

The only things worth watching probably are the colorful locales and the outfits of Uvika and Tabu but again in that too, at least two of Tabu’s outfits have been repeated. The sound track too is nothing out of the ordinary with unnecessary songs being placed in the script. Please don’t blame me if you don’t find any flow to this review. After all, the film too didn’t have any flow!

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Meri Maa Cinemaa @merimaacinemaa

Feb 20, 2010 11:20 AM, 3218 Views

Kaafi Kachchi

Toh Baat Pakki, is based on the ancient formula of boy-meets-girl-they-fall-in-love-face-obstacles-but-finally-love-triumphs. The movie does attempt one small twist, by casting Tabu as the spanner in the works. But this twist is also diluted because Tabu could not have played an out and out villain. And once her character is justified, there is so little drama in the plot that the movie becomes a yawnathon.

But to begin at the beginning, Tabu is shown to be a manipulative and scheming elder sister who is on the lookout for a suitable husband for her younger sister, Yuvika. Sharman literally bumps into her on a road once, and while she is initially angry - she soon realises that Sharman is an engineering student, and hence is good husband material for her sister. After some oversimplistic scheming by Tabu, Sharman and Yuvika conveniently fall in love with each other and are on the verge of getting married.

That’s when Tabu runs into Vatsal, who is a wealthier boy with a steady job. So, Tabu decides to dump Sharman and now schemes to get Vatsal married to Yuvika. The movie is fairly tolerable in the first half, and the scene in which Sharman explains an ‘eclipse’ is a surprising flash of competence. But, things go completely out of whack in the second half. Assorted relatives and characters pop up, and some incredibly silly scenes and situations are unleashed. In one scene, because of bad cell reception, the mother thinks her much married elder daughter wants to get married to her younger daughter prospective groom - Really? Which 70s movie is this scene borrowed from? By the end of it all, let alone how, no one is even interested in knowing who gets the girl.

Director Kedar Shinde must have roots in television, because even in its best moments, Toh Baat Pakki never gets better than an afternoon soap. Large parts of the movie have been shot in Ooty, and the art direction , choreography, etc seems outdated, not by years, but by a few decades. The cinematography is also ordinary, and does not do anything to highlight the dramatic points. The music is also singularly unremarkable, and the song choreography would not get past round 1 of any reality show.

On the acting front, Vatsal Seth and Yuvika look good, but the full range of their acting is limited to 2 expressions. Sharman’s easygoing and effortless demeanour makes his character believable, but it does look like he had a really bad hair day - on every day of this film’s shoot. Similarly for Tabu - she invests a lot of sincerity and dignity, but the script is way below average and even she cannot make this movie work.

Finally, it must be said that apart from a few random dialogues and some decent acting by Tabu and Sharman - there are no redeeming factors for this movie. We give it 1.5 out of 5.