Movie Review: A Gentleman: Sundar, Susheel, Risky, Sorry But None Of Those Adjectives Are Applicable
Siddharth Malhotra and Jacqueline Fernandez bank excessively on the glamour quotient in an unbearably mindless thriller
Mamma Miami! Chalo guys, then, to the south of Florida.
Yippee. Over for a spot of
chilling-cooing-and-billing also in Thailand, and in case you get homesick,
mosey back to Mumbai and whoa, Goa. They might as well have scheduled a quick
stay in Samoa.
You get the drift. This is one of a restless ride through
lush-plush locations, quite cheesily titled as A Gentleman: Sundar, Susheel,
Risky, ostensibly coined by script writers R and D.K, lesser known as Raj
Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. The oddball thriller they deliver, alas, is far from
OK, dokay.
A Still From A Gentleman
An astounding waste of financial resources and investment
of the viewer’s money, time and endurance stretching to 133 minutes, it’s a
mystery why this low-concept crash-pow-bone-cruch-head-banger was ever
conceived. After all there’s an abundant
selection of cool actioners on the TV channels, internet and what-click-you.
Buzz was that the project was initially meant to be a spin-off from the Bang
Bang franchise. If that’s right in any which way, Hrithik Roshan-Katrina Kaif
were as essential as oxygen. Or to ensure some breath and butter at the cash
counters.
Be that as it may, let’s approach this (best not to,
actually) as a standalone tour through swank villas, skyscrapers, sun-soaked beaches, clubs
infested with lounge lizards and uh, a human body swirling away in a washing
machine. How drip-dry is that.
Ulp anyway, the much-coveted, not so-obscure object of
desire out here is – what else?– but a molten hot hard disk. This objet de
computer age incriminates money launderers, scamsters, criminals who’re neither
Sundaram nor Susheelam. Riskyam maybe.
In the event, weirdo beardos run harum-scarum all over the globe, captained by
Commander Vijay Saxena (Sunil Shetty, no comments on his evolution or the lack
of it, in the acting deparment).
Jacqueline Fernandez And Sidharth Malhotra In A Gentleman
Next: the world and our fate depends on Rishi aka Gaurav
(Sidharth Malhotra), who has resolved to quit the Commander’s Unit Eggs (could
be Unit X, my ears were jangling). Out out crimegiri. Our Rishi boy wishes to
go squeaky clean, lead an ordinary life, albeit in supreme luxury. A cushy
mini-van, a premium car, designer outfits, designere shades and a Cheshire cat
grin seem to be on his wish-list.
And since a heroine is a must for that arm candy
quotient, padhariye Kavya (Jacqueline Fernandez) who takes to the beach waters
like a fish does to an aquarium. Since family audiences relate to elders and
betters on screen, count in Supriya Pilgaonkar and Rajat Kapoor, concerned
about the goings-yawn and dispensing Agony Aunty-Uncle advice.
Not much to sink your teeth into by way of a juicy plot,
na? Director duo R and DK don’t have the patience to formulate one. What’s the
point anyway? Just depend on the stunt department to execute the car chases,
bike chases, assorted explosions, not to forget a gaadi tumbling off a
high-rise or those fist combats, kick combats, gun combats, combat combats.
Enough is enough.
A Romantic Scene From A Gentleman
Come to think of it, you’ve experienced this and more
since time immemorial in the Abbas-Mustan vintage hits. Not surprisingly at the
multiplex I felt soooo nostalgic, yearning away for those Race franchise movies
by the Duo in White. Compared to R and D.K., at the very least they had way
more slickness and style, plus dance-enticing music scores.
Sachin-Jigar’s music whoopla for A Gentleman is nothing
to sing or boogie about.
The action stuff is reasonably expertly done. Period.
Ms Fernandez can’t act for peanuts, sadly. Sidharth
Malhotra strives to do his best, performing death defying stunts and
consistently projecting a Nice Guy screen presence.
That isn’t sufficient reason to warrant a dekko
of this mindless thriller though. Don’t you dare get taken in by A Gentleman
who’s quite Unoriginal, Uncool and Undoable.
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