Happy New Year was a typical bran-less, nonsensical entertainer which could be a time-pass if you have least expectation from the movie and ofcouse if you don’t have anything to do.
After his father is being duped by a diamond merchant, Charlie avenges the false charges implied on his father by pulling off a diamond heist with help of inexperienced yet brave laggards.
Farah Khan does a decent comeback with Happy New Year after giving us the disastrous Tees Maar Khan. HNY starts off with routine song and dance with little melodrama embedded into it. Once Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone enters the scene, movie becomes interesting and hilarious. However, the film loses the steam subsequently and leaves no impact at the later reel. In fact, it becomes unbearable that you wish you could press the forward button .
Direction is lame with minute focus on screenplay at all. Sometimes you feel that you are watching some old 90’s cinema with typical masala ingredients to make a blockbuster movie. Cinematography is efficient. Action scenes are hilarious and larger than life. Art direction is good.Editing should be done efficiently. Dialogues are just about OK. Performances by the entire starcast is commendable.
Sharukh Khan does fine job as the team leader. Boman Irani and Sonu Sood are good. But it is Abhishek Bachchan and Deepika Padukone who are the soul of the film and they make it watchable. Music by Vishal Shekhar is good. Happy New year is a movie which has decent story, no direction and simply no screenplay. As I mentioned, it is just a watchable time pass thanks to wonderful performances by the star cast. Above average: 2.75/5