Ta-ra-rum-pum

Do you remember Jo Jeeta Wahi Sikandar? It starred Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla, long before the latter went and had a baby and started doing Punjabi movies. Just imagine that movie in NYC, replace bicycles with cars, and of course replace the actors, and you have Ta Ra Rum Pum. Certainly, there's more to this movie than that, but the theme remains the same.

I'd give it only 5 outta 10. Earlier, I was giving it 4.5, but that was before the producers managed to thrill you with the obvious climax. That made me give it 5.5. However, the fact that Saiffy busted Rustin in the end made me deduct .5 to get 5 outta 10.

The move no doubt thrills, but then there isn't much laughter. You feel happy, but there aren't many jokes. Forgivable. The music, though, is really clichéd and boring. There is supposed to be sadness in the movie, but it just doesn't go deep enough. I mean, they're poor and so happy, and you don't feel their anxiety much. No steep valley, only a gradual depression.

And lastly, it is too conventional. Too much a family movie. I saw it with dear good old mummy, and at one point I saw her nodding her head vigourously. She's someone who looks for morals everywhere, and I just knew she loves this movie. Add to that the fact that it is typical bollywood. Rich girl marries poor boy and father refuses, and then attempts to dole out money. reminds you of something???

I'd have enjoyed the first half much more had I not temporarily lost my wallet (It was found below the seat during intermission). This was my first movie north of Patel Nagar's Satyam, at M2k in Pitampura. The place used to be barren, and is now filled with empty malls, in which the only thing that works is an ascending escalator (they didn't put a descending one- after all, it's easier to climb down stairs!), McDonald's (their burgers didn't have lettuce- global warming has depleted the stocks this time round), and of course, the multiplex, whose layout reminds me so much of DT. Alas!