Selfiee Movie Review: Akshay Kumar Was Almost There With The … – Koimoi
Star Solid: Akshay Kumar, Emraan Hashmi, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Diana Penty, Mahesh Thakur, Abhimanyu Singh, Meghna Malik, Kusha Kapila
Director: Raj Mehta
What’s Good: The standard Akshay Kumar trademark comedy in some scenes
What’s Unhealthy: The standard ‘tweaking’ in copy-pasting the already tried & examined script making sure issues worse than the unique
Bathroom Break: Songs & at any time when you’ll want to!
Watch or Not?: Provided that you haven’t seen the unique (Driving License) you’ll have a brilliant likelihood to get pleasure from some scenes
Language: Hindi
Obtainable On: Theatrical Launch
Runtime: 143 Minutes (Yep, that quantity satirically denotes ‘I Love You’ however sorry, that is going to be ‘ek-tarfa pyaar’)
Person Ranking:
Earlier than the film began, all of us noticed Akshay Kumar’s recorded message about how that is devoted to his followers and the way he’s nothing with out them, however then he goes on to do movies like these to disappoint not all however a substantial chunk of them. He performs Vijay Kumar (Akshay Kumar), a famous person who’s worshipped by his followers and one his greatest followers in RTO Inspector Om Prakash Agarwal’s (Emraan Hashmi) love for him is dubiously termed as ‘bhakti’.
Star desires a driving license for a car-based scene shoot, RTO officer desires a innocent selfie together with his favorite star however issues change when Vijay reaches the RTO workplace. Who has finished what and why varieties the key crux of the movie which revolves round a cat-and-mouse recreation being performed by the ‘Khiladi’ & ‘Anari’.
Selfiee Film Evaluation: Script Evaluation
Mehta’s trusted author Rishhabh Sharrma (Good Newwz, Jugjugg Jeeyo) adapts & modifies the screenplay of Lal Jr’s Malayalam movie Driving License led by Prithviraj Sukumaran for Akshay Kumar’s Hindi remake. Okay, this will sound insane, however, hear me out. The comical aid of the movie comes additionally from Akki cracking self-deprecated jokes, why didn’t they take it a step forward? When you possibly can discuss his ‘masoode’ ruining his smile, joke about his dedication to do hundreds of thousands of initiatives yearly, and make a health care provider criticize his ‘massy’ script sense, then why did you prohibit the story solely to the supply materials out there beforehand?
Why this will’t be a narrative of a narrative who by some means forgets to resume his passport & fails with excessive problem in renewing it owing to his twin citizenship (India & Canada, perhaps?)? Why not utterly redesign the mission retaining simply the narrative’s soul of a public struggle between a famous person and his die-hard fan? I do know it’s simple to pen and troublesome to execute, however isn’t that the identical as remaking an already-loved film?
Anurag Kashyap’s man Rajeev Ravi (Dev D, Gangs Of Wasseypur) retains it fairly fundamental relating to cinematography. Aside from a few routine motion sequences, there’s nothing actually to boast about how the movie ‘seems to be’. Ritesh Soni’s modifying is of no assist letting the second half drown into oblivion.
Selfiee Film Evaluation: Star Efficiency
Akshay Kumar’s obsession over his fortunate quantity 9 continues together with his character Vijay driving Automobiles with numbers like 4545 or 0909, and even his driving license kind states his tackle as ’27’ Pali Hill. More often than not, as a result of movie’s self-deprecatory humour, it virtually seems to be like Akshay is breaking the fourth wall to speak to the viewers. That is one thing Akshay can do whereas sleepwalking, the efficiency doesn’t increase the dragging narrative. He retains his finest self whereas delivering just a few genuinely hilarious strains however sadly that’s not sufficient.
Emraan Hashmi’s Om’s star-worshipping isn’t actually constructed nicely to develop a connection solely relying on his efficiency. It might be actually onerous for the non-fans to utterly perceive what’s he going via. The transformation of Om from a die-hard fan to a failed father to a revengeful RTO Inspector fails to evoke any form of feelings aside from “simply finish this already?”
Nushrratt Bharuccha & Diana Penty as respective housewives of Emraan & Akshay don’t have anything to do within the movie aside from ensuring their husbands don’t f*ck up. Extraordinarily match & the 53-year-old good-looking Mahesh Thakur barely will get any footage and it’ll puzzle me perpetually, how will you take somebody as proficient as him with out giving him some meaty jokes? Abhimanyu Singh’s character writing is hilarious resulting in some rib-tickling scenes, leaving one of the best for the final. ‘Corporator’ performed by Meghna Malik depends closely on her pure efficiency bringing one of the best out of the character. Kusha Kapila is simply there, but once more.
Selfiee Film Evaluation: Course, Music
Raj Mehta ought to persist with the unique scripts for his abilities to flourish. You positively see bits of him within the comedic items of the movie however that’s about it, it’s a reasonably generic try in any other case. I’d decode the above line for you, Mehta fails to deal with the ‘masala’ parts of Vijay Kumar however nails the gut-busting scenes of Celebrity Suraj (performed by Abhimanyu Singh).
Folks like Tanishk Bagchi, Yo Yo Honey Singh, The PropheC, Lijo George, DJ Chetas, Vikram Montrose, Aditya Yadav, Tarun & Anu Malik (for Principal Khiladi Tu Anari remake) got here collectively for the songs however couldn’t ship a single observe that could possibly be in my playlist for even every week. PropheC’s Vibe is ruined by making it the ‘for the sake of hook line’ track (While you hear the unique, the track begins with the hook line bringing the early excessive which the movie model fails to attain).
Selfiee Film Evaluation: The Final Phrase
All stated and finished, Selfiee could possibly be true to the unique however that’s additionally someplace its weak level. The movie shines when it doesn’t ‘attempt’ to repeat and that’s why this wanted a cosmetical makeover from not solely exterior however inside as nicely.
Two stars!
Selfiee Trailer:
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Selfiee releases on twenty third February, 2023.
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