RACE 3- ALLAH DUHAAI HAIN!!!

As I sat to watch this movie, I exclaimed “This movie better be good!”Bob and I loved the first two instalments of Race. In fact, we watched Race 1 together in college. While some critics may have dismissed these movies as no-brainers, well, I liked them and my choice is my business and none of your business! (I’m taking a page out of Race 3 scriptwriter’s book!)

45 minutes into the movie and for the first time, since I’ve started writing movie reviews, I was contemplating on whether I should even write one for this movie!

But then some things have got to be done and I’ve just got to inform our readers as to why they can skip watching this movie (though Archie says she’ll still watch it in the theatre. She’s a die-hard Salman fan, so she can’t be thinking straight).

PLOT: (Some readers believe my narrative of the plot discloses too many details, so I’ll try and keep it brief). This film too, like its predecessors, has an ensemble cast.  Characters involved – Rich, old illegal arms dealer (Anil Kapoor), his step son (Salman Khan), his twins (Daisy Shah and Saqib Saleem), the family’s Man Friday (Bobby Deol) and the eye candy (Jacqueline Fernandez).

Illegal arms dealer has been wrongly driven out of his country and his sole aim is to return to his native village with a clean chit and to do this he needs to indulge in more criminal activity such as stealing a ‘hard disk’ that has illegally recorded sleazy videos of politicians and then blackmailing these politicians. To help him with this task, he has his children who are all trained fighters and have each others’ backs on the field. But all is not well at home. The twins want the step son out of the way as their father favours him over them. Step son has brief affair with eye candy and then they break up only to have her return back to his life after few days/months/years (we don’t know). Man Friday oscillates in his loyalty towards step son and twins.

Will illegal arms dealer return to his village? Will arm candy and step son have a ‘happily ever after’? Whom does Man Friday finally stand up for? Who will survive- the twins or the step son?

Oh Salman, you’ve ruined this movie and turned into a big-budget Dabangg!

The film begins with each character being introduced by a voice over and that is when things begin to go downhill. When you have someone do a voice over in the film, that person ought to have a great voice and not sound like a railway announcement.

The USP of the Race series has always been the action packed scenes, the larger than life stunt sequences and the twists in the plot. Race 3 has all of this but fails to impress due to poor acting, even worse direction, abysmal script and unrealistic scenes. I am fine with one person taking down an entire truckload of trained militia by himself but how in God’s name does Salman manage to jump off a high rise building in a wingsuit, manoeuvre through buildings across town (while still flying) and land into the warehouse where his siblings are fighting? I have never been a big fan of Salman’s movies but this one really annoyed me as I went to the theatre with high expectations.

Salman looks like a stocky potato and lacks the panache that Saif Ali Khan had in the previous movies.

I feel terrible saying this but Daisy Shah is really annoying. Despite her cool stunt moves and her brilliant aerial dance, she has failed at trying to pass off as an uber cool, 25 year old scheming daredevil.  

Jacqueline is just being umm.... Jacqueline in the movie. (Chittiyan kalaiyan veh)

However, feminists rejoice. For a change, this film has action scenes with women in them, that do not involve name calling and hair pulling. *eye roll*

Would you believe this, I have nothing bad to say about Bobby Deol!

(Oh, I forgot to mention the other twin. Yeah, he has some scenes too.)

Anil Kapoor was definitely the saving grace and the good news is that the way the film ended, it would appear that Anil Kapoor shall make a comeback and thankfully not Salman Khan!

I sometimes still croon the songs from Race 1. The songs in this movie are unremarkable and the lyrics are so lame (tried thinking of a more professional word than lame, but lame describes it the best) especially the song “Selfish” and what do you know! The lyrics to the song have been penned by Salman!

Did I mention the script? LAME.

Remo, please stick to being a choreographer.

P.S: Remo D’Souza is the Director of the movie.

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