Hail Ronnie Screwalla!!!
That’s all you can think of when you see Aage Se Right. Over the years UTV has not only produced some really big films but has also backed up smart, intelligent directors and with the marketing brains that UTV has, has been able to turn those low key projects in to really worth watching indi-films.
Aage Se Right is one more from Ronnie’s stable and despite of a weak storyline and not so great direction, the film is able to hold your attention in most parts. The film opens on a very lame and weak note and is truly trying hard but once Vijay Mourya and Kay kay menon enter the scene, the film takes a U turn and goes Aage se Right.
Aage Se Right has a simple story line. Shreyas Talpade is forced to become a cop by his “angry without a cause” and loud mother (played by Bharati Achrekar, doing a really bad over the top job). To add to the misery of viewers, the director has saved money by putting Shreyas’s picture in big handlebar mustaches to pose as his father. Shreyas has a bullet which works when it wants or director forgets.
Enter Kay Kay Menon with some godforsaken name and a heavy duty Urdu vocab straight from Ghalib era to the city where his Indian host, the South Indian Don whose name is Raghav Shetty (played by Vijay Mourya) but speaks with a Malayali accent. What follows after that is a stupid search of the gun which takes us to strange places and introduces us to some stranger people.
The story is nothing to write about but some of the dialogues and moments captured in the film are worth mentioning. While the edit of the film is just about average…the scenes have been placed well, but there is no fluidity in transition.
On a performance level, Vijay Mourya is the only right one shining. Kay Kay is classic and his funny bone has started poking now. Every time he came up with the bizarre urdu and Mumbai poetry, the entire theatre was in splits.
One noteworthy thing about the film is the dialiogues. Adding Bumbro in the boat scene, the bizarre poetry, the Bihari film maker doing a makad manav and Shehnaz Tresurywalla’s Learn Urdu touches and of course Raghav Shetty’s crazy one liners…the dialogue is the hero of this otherwise weak film.
Shreyas, I felt, was wasted in the film. An actor with so much potential could have done so much better. They rarely make movies for actors of Kay kay and Vijay Mourya’s caliber. Shehnaz was looking pretty and did a decent job. Don’t know why Shiv Pandit and Shruti Seth agreed to do this film? It was very clear that their parts were chopped off mercilessly. After a successful stint in TV, Shiv should be careful in choosing the roles. Rakesh Bedi and Bharati Achrekar were genuine case of over the top acting, poor editing and above all character development.
Music was average, none of the songs were ever shown in the TV promos and hence have no reason to become popular. Rest of the film is strictly Ok.
Watch this film when you are 3 vodkas down, and want to do some stupid, idiotic stuff and laugh yourself silly….Aage Se Right…a bad debut for the director…kudos to Abhijeet Deshpande (the dialogue writer), Kay Kay and now my favorite actor Vijay Mourya….
The best dialogue of the film
Raghav : Michael, what….are you waiting for Christmas?
Michaek : yes sir.
PS : The review is fairly weird just as the film. Wrote at 4 am...today.
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