Cast: Jimmy Shergill, Shenaz Treasurywala, Kader Khan, Prem Chopra, Satish Kaushik, Dilip Tahil, Shakti Kapoor.
Director: Karan Razdan
From Karan Razdan, the director of sleazy potboilers as Hawas and Girlfriend, comes this week’s new Bollywood release Umar.
He attempts to deviate with his skin formula with concept of age, which catches up with every passing moment. One can be rich or poor, man or woman, living anywhere in the world, but can not escape time....and age. You could either treat this with respect or scorn at people around you who catch up on age.But this forgettable movie is so painfully contrived and insipid that audiences will wonder how the premise ever managed to graduate from the page in the first place.
Chandrakant Mehta (Prem Chopra) has to wait on his daughter-in-law’s fatty kitty party and is served thundering slaps by his son. His other friends in London are Rajpal Singh (Satish Kaushik) and Iqbal Khan (Kader Khan) .
Two of them have problematic sons and daughters in law and one is all alone. Shashank(Jimmy Shergil) is the purer than snow orphan who takes every opportunity to lecture on looking after old people and seeking their blessings.But he is having a problem coz his girlfriend’s father does not approve of their relation.
Suddenly Shashank is accused of a murder of a British girl . He is put behind bars but with help from three old man he manages an escape while being taken to the prison. He gets shot but manages to escape death as he is at Iqbal’s home.
Worse is still to come as the children of three men get to know about this and almost hit upon their parents before Shashank comes to know about this and proposes to leave from there.
In this decision of his, even Iqbal, Chanderkant and Rajpal join hands and form a four-man army that picks up a mission in life - to get justice. And to fight against the establishment that had got everyone into such a situation. At the fag end of their lives, they realize that to give their life some meaning before it comes to an end, it was important to go down fighting.
It’s a film which tries very hard to disguise itself as a serious story dealing with some very important issues that plague our society today.This is a tedious effort that sends out the wrong message and takes a perverse delight in rewarding sermonising.
Now the most basic and intrinsic problem with this film is that it’s made from such a rotten script that even Martin Scorcese couldn’t make this film half way entertaining. You could easily trust a class four student to write a better essay than this script .The film is filled with so many such ridiculous and brainless scenes that you’ve tuned off barely fifteen minutes into the film.
When I see a film like Umar I pray and I hope that somebody has the good sense to make it compulsory for every actor have at least some basic training before he or she is allowed to work on screen. Watching Kader Khan and Satish Kausik in this film -- -- is as painful as pulling out your nostril hair.
Jimmy hams like there’s no tomorrow, Shenaaz changes more hairstyles than expressions.
And the reason umar is so damn annoying is because it’s not only carelessly written and badly made, but it’s also so offensive. It pretends to tackle serious issues but it’s such a sell-out of a film. Bad films release at the cinemas every other week, but this one isn’t bad, it’s really terrible. It’s terrible because it tries to make an as* out of you, and that’s not fair.
There’s a scene in film in which the villain tortures Jimmy Shergill by pulling out the nails from his fingers with a pair of pliers.
The pain that comes from watching this film can’t be any less than the pain Jimmy suffers in that scene.