Ready

Its 9:30 P.M, I am sitting in a small less than comfortable chair in a single screen theatre at Morbi, although it is a Tuesday, still the board outside the premises says houseful. Inside the theatre people are perspiring (because only dogs sweat, men perspire) due to humidity, and only three fans can not take care of the hall filled to capacity.

And with the entry of Salman with a super hit song, people started shouting his name hysterically; all that was needed now was a good movie. What I got was a movie that works in part i.e. makes you laugh, and rest of the time entertains you with age old jokes forced into the narrative, scenes with keeps on going beyond a point that you start thinking that the director forgot to say cut and where the screenplay writer was probably sleeping.

I won’t go in to the story of the movie as it doesn’t matters in a comedy film; neither had it mattered to the story writer. I agree you take a lot of things for granted in such type of movie, but “reason and logic” died a sudden and terrifying death in the first few minutes of the movie itself.

So is it a movie worth avoiding when half the population of the country is getting into a queue outside a cinema hall. Well even after criticizing in lengths about the technicalities of the movie, fact remains it is a movie you enjoy and like. It may be due to the fact that Indians are not getting good enough entertainment off lately that is the reason why we have started enjoying even average movies to the extent that these movies become blockbuster hits. Anees Bazmi is an extremely talented director, but he is turning into a factory now a days, ‘Ready’ being his third movie to be released in last few months

(No Problem and Thank You being the first two), he has started to compromise with the quality of the movies he is directing, and just for information he is currently working on the sequels of ‘Singh is King’, ‘No Entry’ and even ‘Mr. India’ although these are rumors till date. So it may be possible that he is directing just a few parts of the movie while rest is directed by his assistants.

Coming back to the point whether the movie works or not, well certainly in parts, but a great opportunity missed by the director to make a much more entertaining movie, if only he had worked hard on the movie as hard he had worked on the songs. Turing out to be the second undeserving blockbuster for Salman after Dabang. So go to this movie as not much better options are available.

Rating **.