You are in a movie hall, watching an action-thriller. The film is close to its climax. Normally, you would expect people to be sitting on the edge of their seats, waiting for something spectacular to hit them. Instead, you see that the person sitting in the row directly in front of you is busy playing Snake on his Nokia 3310 mobile phone.
Yes, that is exactly what I experienced when I went to watch Prince.
A film that is about a smart thief who has lost his memory doesn’t sound too bad. That is only until you actually watch it. Prince (Vivek Oberoi) is the thief in question. He remembers nothing of his past, and sets out to find out his identity, not knowing whom to trust, or where to get a solution to his problem.
He gets to know that he has a girlfriend named Maya. What he doesn’t anticipate is that there will be three different girls claiming to be her. What he also doesn’t expect is that both, the cops and gangsters, will be after his life. They want a precious coin which he had stolen; the poor guy doesn’t even know who he is, let alone the location of some coin.
Does he find the coin? Why is it so precious? Who is the real Maya? Why does he get sudden spasms that make him pass out? Will he ever get to know who he really is? All answers in the film!
But as I am not related to the makers of the movie (thank heavens. That would be embarrassing), I would say it’s not really important to know the answers to such mind numbingly boring questions that will lead you to a slow and torturous death. All I can say is, avoid this abysmal creation by Kookie Gulati.
The film’s action sequences were immature, with childish graphics. Everything seemed fake, right from the sets to the acting, from the corny dialogues to the predictable screenplay. It was all I could do to stop myself from suing the Director for temporarily killing my brain cells.
Add to it the fact that everyone in the film has acted poorly. After Kurbaan it seemed like Vivek was going in the right direction. But after watching him in Prince, it looks like he has taken a U-turn to his Kyon Ho Gaya Na days.
The leading ladies of the film: Maya 1 (Neeru Singh), Maya 2 (Nandana Sen) and Maya 3 (Aruna Murty) were so terrible, it would be tough to say which of the three was the worst of the lot. They were all poorly dressed, with ugly make up and unbelievably pathetic acting.
Influences from Iron Man and Mission Impossible were evident. The use of advanced technological gadgets, to give the film a touch of science fiction was a bad move. The gadgets looked like cheap kids’ toys which can be bought off the road for a few bucks. A film that could have been suave and stylish ended up looking like some B-Grade movie.
The timing of the songs could not have been worse. And as if the audience had not been tormented enough with the bad songs, one of them was replayed with the end credits! It’s like killing a person, and then killing him all over again…
One thing that stumped me is the almost-full hall. The trailers made it obvious that the film was going to be a complete fiasco. Yet, people are ready to watch it to kill time. Why can’t they watch well-made movies like LSD instead?
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