Taaza Khabar Review – Rediff.com movies
YouTube sensation Bhuvan Bam has a presence about him, however his character’s flare ups don’t persuade within the least, observes Sukanya Verma.
If Charles Perrault’s Toads and Diamonds fairy story was whisked into Hollywood thriller Echelon Conspiracy together with Bollywood masalas Badmaash Firm and Vaastav, the weird mish-mash would lead to Taaza Khabar.
Similar to Perrault’s story, compassion in direction of an unpleasant crone is rewarded with a magical boon.
It entails a future-predicting cellphone like Shane West’s 2009 stinker.
A motley crew joins fingers to kind an organization that operates by hook or criminal like Shahid Kapoor’s con caper.
Throw in Vaastav‘s underdog towards the world angle and what have you ever?
In Director Himank Gaur’s unwieldy new Internet collection, conceptualised by Aziz Dalal and penned by Hussain and Abbas Dalal, YouTube sensation Bhuvan Bam makes his debut as Vasant Gawde aka Vasya, a Mumbai gully boy managing a public rest room whereas down on luck however large on goals.
Between potty mouths and potty piles, Taaza Khabar‘s propensity for filth relentlessly assessments its viewer’s tolerance for the ick issue.
Burdened by daddy points (Vijay Nikam) at house and a need to finish his mother’s (Atisha Naik) lifetime of drudgery because the home assist of a cranky Parsi outdated man (Mithilesh Chaturvedi), Vasya finds solace in subsequent door prostitute Madhu’s (Shriya Pilgaonkar) arms and friendship of bachpan ka buddy Peter (Prathamesh Parab).
Peter runs a quick meals stall adjoining to the pleasant bakery man Mehboob Bhai (Deven Bhojani), whose nerdy daughter (Nitya Mathur) harbours the American dream.
Secular imagery and stereotypes duly mark their presence in a possessive native politician (J D Chekravarthy) lusting after Madhu and the mischief-minded brothel madam (Shilpa Shukla).
Mahesh Manjrekar pitches in a cameo as a shady bigshot of the match-fixing trade.
All of it begins when Vasya is granted the means to show his fortune round in addition to his mates.
However when he grows too large for his boots, so does his conceit.
Bam has a presence about him and blends nicely into the half in addition to its rags to riches environment, however his character’s disquiet and flare ups don’t persuade within the least.
Contrivances mount up because the writers give Vasya a free rein of his future, conveniently forgetting the cellphone isn’t a wish-granting system however a forecaster of reports which may be used to 1’s benefit.
Between random flashbacks of childhood underscoring him as a boy from the backstreets to his meteoric rise in standing and society, Taaza Khabar by no means fairly turns into the cautionary story it units out to be.
Humble beginnings discovering energy as a instrument of corruption is a done-to-death premise, however Vasya’s jumbled thoughts and miserable lack of humour mechanically ticks off the plot factors with out ever making the spectacular occasions in his life seem to be a journey.
Half a dozen episodes play out like an offhanded dialogue between writers planning incidents and penalties however nothing is fleshed out.
Taaza Khabar has a reliable bunch of actors at work however as the main target will increase on Vasya, his partners-in-crime are decreased from individuals of curiosity to expendable sidekicks.
As an alternative of permitting main girl Shriya Pilgaonkar’s coming-into-her-own second its place within the solar, she turns into an instrument to gas Vasya’s narcissism.
There’s nothing to remove from its magic versus miracle fundas.
Jadoo dhoka se hota hai aur chamatkar yakeen se, Taaza Khabar reminds us from begin to end. It is a good line searching for a narrative.
Taaza Khabar streams on Disney+Hotstar.
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