I saw this movie on the very next day of its release and my first thought when I came out of the auditorium was ’’I want my money back’’. That is my usual thought when I see movies like Jaanasheen, Market, Ek Chhoti Si Love Story, etc. But I’m here to talk about Bewafaa...
Despite the actors like Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Manoj Bajpai and Shamita Shetty(what? you’ve not heard of her??) the movie sucks big time! I didn’t even find the music so inspiring but I wanted to see the movie because there was no other ’’good’’ movie being released at that time.
So what is the movie all about?
Have you heard of Gumraah(old one)?? This movie is a perfect spoof of this movie!! Just when you thought that Kareena has started ’’acting’’ in her movies this movie proves you wrong... Sush and Bebo are daughters of Kabir B(h)edi and Nafisa and Sush is married to Anil Kapoor. Bebo loves Akshay but Sush dies after giving birth to twins and Bebo marries Anil so that the kids don’t miss their mom. Few years later, Akshay comes back in their life and then starts the Bewafaai.. The same old tried and tested formula..
But my dear Darshans and Boney Kapoor, this trick worked in 60s and if you expect kareena to act like the heroines of yesteryears, then it won’t work now!!! C’mon! who acts as if she has seen a ghost when she sees her husband arrived unexpectedly early from his business trip??
Dumbest Performance
The most annoying performance in the movie was by Manoj Bajpai and Shamita Shetty. Manoj looks very creepy whenever he addresses Kareena as ’’Bhabs’’ and Shamita also looks really really stupid when she dances in some song with two cups in her hand, because she wants Kareena to know that she had seen her with Akshay Kumar while they were having coffee. Kareena and Shamita acted like Asha Parekh and Bindu from that song, ’’Mera naam hai Shabnam, pyaar se log mujhe Shabbo kehte hai, tumhara naam kya hai? Eena, Meena, Anju, Manju, Yaaaa Madhooo?’’... Kareena also gives the same expressions like Asha Parekh.. The shocked + scared expressions..
Akshay Kumar and Anil Kapoor also look very old and the former definitely does not look like a Rock Star.. Oh! and Akshay Kumar was initially a struggling singer and when he becomes a ’’Rock Star’’, he calls himself Indian Raja.. If Raja Hindustani worked miracles for Karisma Kapoor(why??), they expected Indian Raja will work miracles for them!! The movie didn’t work because it did not have Archana Puran Singh and Navneet Nishan...
As for Sushmita Sen, I really like her, but I find her wasted in the movie!! She has no role whatsoever!!! All she does is sing songs with Kareena and Akshay and die!
Music
They say that the music is great! But I didn’t find the songs that inspiring and by the end of the movie, I was soooo sick of the title song that I wanted to go and tear the screen... And one advice to Lata Mangeshkar.. Please quit. You are a great singer but since late 90s, you have started croaking!!! And while you’re at quitting, please take your sister Asha with you. She annoys the hell out of me whenever I hear the song ’’huzoooor-e-aalaaaaa’’ from Page 3.
Conclusion
The movie would have worked if was made 30 years ago. But today, people would prefer Mallika Sherawat in Murder instead of Kareena Kapoor in Bewafaa. The movie had lots of loose ends and the director himself seems confused!! Watch at your own risk!!