Re: Review: Out of Control

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Baradwaj Rangan) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Out of Control
> 
> Baradwaj Rangan
> 

 If he wasn the (ex) Maharashtra CMs son,Ritesh Deshmukh wouldnt even
get the role Johnny Levers pet chimpanzee .He is quite hopeless.As I
suspected this movie sounds like utter crap and again I feel
embarrassed of just the fact that it was made.Often Indian movies
remind me of what the Israeli ambassador Abba Eban said of the
Palestinians "Palestinians never miss an oppurtunity to miss an
oppurtunity"
> (C) The Economic Times, Madras Plus - Nov. 27, 2003
> 
> 
> 'Out of Control' is full of comedy of the unintended kind. At the
> beginning, New York-based cab driver Jimmy (Ritesh Deshmukh) cavorts
> with scantily-clad 'firang' dancers in a dream sequence, but two
> scenes later, in a nightclub, he looks away demurely when the girls
> begin to strut their stuff. He tells singer Sally ('Baywatch' star
> Brande Roderick) that the reason men keep trying to paw her during
> performances is her choice of clothes, that she should wear 'dhang ke
> kapde' and expose her voice, not her body. Sally sees the error of her
> ways and covers up during subsequent shows, proving that inside every
> 'Baywatch' body there's a 'bharatiya nari' waiting to be set free.
> 
> Soon Jimmy and Sally get married - he has visa problems and this is
> the only way he can stay behind in America - and we get treated to
> another little gem of a comic moment. Sally watches 'Love Story' and
> sees Vijayeta Pandit take a lunch 'dabba' to the toiling Kumar Gaurav,
> so she dolls up in a 'ghagra choli' and sashays to Jimmy's workplace
> with a 'dabba' of her own. When a 'desi' onlooker comments that he's
> never seen a 'gori' do something like this, she flutters her eyelids
> and coos, "Not 'gori', silly, 'gaon ki gori'."
> 
> If this sort of thing doesn't tickle you, nothing else in 'Out of
> Control' will - the only way to keep yourself amused through this
> missed opportunity of a film is by rolling your eyes at the botched
> comic attempts, wondering whatever they will think of next.
> 
> What they do think of next is to concoct circumstances that get Jimmy
> married to Richa (poor Hrishitaa Bhatt, in a thankless role that
> requires her to break into one of those out-of-nowhere solo dances
> Sridevi used to do in her Yash Chopra movies when she got really mad).
> 
> Ah, you think, this is where 'Out of Control' is truly going to spin
> out of control, having stepped into Govinda-David Dhawan territory.
> But where a Govinda would have given the audience a leery wink and
> carried on with his two wives, at least till he got caught, Jimmy
> mopes as if he's trapped in an existential dilemma, making you wonder
> at times if the directors' original intent was to shape their bigamy
> theme into a cheerfully crude farce like 'Saajan Chale Sasural' or a
> contemplative weepie like 'Daag'.
> 
> This confusion is probably why the Indian cast - with the exception of
> Satish Shah, who works up some titters as a drag queen named Flower -
> appears stranded, displaying neither comic timing nor dramatic chops.
> And that makes Brande Roderick the saving grace of the mercifully
> short 'Out of Control'. With her game 'jhatkas' to Anand Raaj Anand's
> catchy 'USA vich LA' and her pidgin Hindi - about her decision to
> marry Jimmy, she rues, "Main ees-kee pyaar mein undie ho gayee," and,
> earlier, she enquires of him, "Kyon hoah purrey-shawn" - she evokes at
> least a couple of giggles, alleviating at least some of your
> purrey-shawnee with the rest of the film.