Badma$h Company - Time Pass Movie

Rating: 2.5/5.0
Value for Money: Rs.80/100
Prediction: Average hit in multiplexes. Will recover money.
Genre: Crime thriller

Not a bad movie! You can watch it at least once. New ideas or new twists throughout the movie. Wish these twists and turns were sharper and more hard-hitting! Then we would have had a hit. I think PS's inexperience, interference, average acting, let him down.

A director is born -- Parmeet Sethi. I think the poor chap is condemned to be known as Archana Puran Singh's husband. Similarly, his acting past is hardly remembered. I know he is/was an actor -- but I don't remember a single role of his. I think this movie is a good first attempt. He definitely deserves another chance.

I don't know why our directors start with big monologues and histories. Why don't they get on to the story directly? In most Hindi movies, the first 30 minutes are painful -- one is begging, where is the story, where is the story. In this film, the real meat of the story begins much after the interval. The last 40% of the movie I think is well done and interesting.

What I like about the story is that it is rich -- not the flimsy, short story stretched into a film. There is meat in lots of portions, fat in lots of portion, and, er, gas, quite a bit.

This movie has an interesting story -- even though most of the players are card-board, cliched characters. Full marks to Parmeet for the story. Dialogues too are good in parts -- er, very few parts. One may have to watch the movie a few times to remember the good dialogues.

Anoushka disappoints after her good performance in Rab Ne Bana di Jodi. Shahid Kapoor is his usual self. Meiyang Chang, I thought, was very good. He looked familiar, but I did not realize that he was the singer from Indian Idol and then its host. Vir Das is good looking and makes some effort, but he is sort of miscast. Anupam Kher does the strict father act once again in his competent way. Kiran Joneja is again adequate -- but I don't know why she is looking so scared throughout the movie. (to me at least she came out to be someone who has been beaten by her husband) Pavan Malhotra was good, but I think he could have been better. I think he was hamming too much.

There were stories of interference from Shahid and Adi(tya Chopra). One is likely to believe this when one sees the film. One minute, you have an excellent scene, and the next minute it goes haywire. The story is going smoothly, it jars now and then, now and then. It looks as if the story is being told on a pot-holed street -- full of thuds.

Music is OK. Songs are chalta hai.

Best moment for me: when Manmohan Singh is shown on TV reading out the budget! Here is a salute from Parmeet to the new, liberalised world.

Should you watch the movie? Yes, why not? It is a worthwhile watch. It is just like the pop corn you had -- nothing memorable or gourmet -- just a small, little, time pass snack!