Garv: No pride in dishonour SUBHASH K JHA IANS[ SATURDAY, JULY 10, 2004 10:35:01 AM ]
Film:
Garv:
Pride &
Honour
Director:
Puneet
Issar
Cast:
Salman Khan, Arbaaz Khan, Shilpa Shetty, Akansha, Amrish Puri, Govind Namdeo,
Farida Jalal, Mukesh
Rishi,
Anupam
Kher, Shivaji
Satam.
Rating:
For
some strange scatological reason this high-voltage screech-and-skid
cops-and-gangsters drama keeps making a ‘moot’ point constantly.
With squirmy regularity one or the other red-eyed character brings up the Hindi
word for urine. Oh to pee calm
again!
As
with the rest of the crew, dialogue writer Anirudh Dhodapkar knows how to fall
blissfully into the claptrap. Every component of
Garv
is designed to get masses into a foam-and -fume-filled frenzy. Every sequence in
debutant director Puneet Issar’s film ends with a double exclamation-mark.
And never mind the over-cluttured down- market sentences replete with
gutter-level terms like
bhadva
and
kotha
.
Critical situations demand we do away with
decorum.
Every
massy filmmaker from Prakash Mehra to Iqbal Durrani gets close to the
people’s pulse by tapping the basest instincts in the audience. Issar gets
down to basics, double-quick.
Garv
doesn’t waste time in establishing the cop-hero as the rebel without a
pause...and plenty of
applause!
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