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Aap Kaa Surroor review
Aap Kaa
Surroor hindi movie
review
'Aap...' - Reshammiya, cancel the sequel. (Review)
By Subhash K. Jha
Film: Aap Kaa Surroor; Cast: Himesh Reshammiya, Hansika Motwani,
Mallika Sherawat; Director: Prashant Chadha; Ratings: *
Can Himesh Reshammiya act? What a silly question! As silly as
asking, can Reshammiya sing? Of course he can't! Who said he was
an actor in the first place?
The role of Reshammiya has been written to accentuate his capped
unsmiling visage. He gets on stage, bursts into many
self-written songs where hordes of fans shriek, clap and cheer.
They take to Reshammiya like fish to water.
If you are Reshammiya you win the race even before the gun goes
off.
Guns do go off in this musical thriller where the music often
provides the thrills while the suspense about a murdered girl's
body in the rock star's purview leaves you as cold as the corpse
that triggers off a chain of reactions ranging from weird to
wired - depending on which side of the stage you're standing and
peering from.
To ensure a safe passage into celluloid stardom, Reshammiya has
spared no pains. "Aap Kaa Surroor" has everything - from untried
snow-capped locations to spotlight the capped cheerleaders
auspicious journey into the sphere of stardom, to dozens of
auto-rickshaws suddenly appearing to support Reshammiya's hefty
hi jinks.
To be fair, the songs and the stage performances do make your
pulse pound and your feet feverishly wild. The "Mehbooba" track
put there mainly to make Mallika Sherawat sizzle, gets slightly
off-colour. It tries too hard to win over the audience and
influence their judgement.
But you really can't win over the audience with songs and stage
performances. They see Reshammiya doing that anyway. What was
required was a strong plotline to carry his acting aspirations
into the sphere of the bearable, if not the believable.
Vibha Singh's screenplay seems to have borrowed generously, if
somewhat unnecessarily, from Jon Avnet's thriller "Red Corner"
where Richard Gere played a foreigner in China who has to clear
himself of murder charges with the help of a sexy lawyer.
Mallika doubling up as a femme fatale and a lawyer provides all
the unintentional laughter.
It's hard to answer why Reshammiya decided to become an actor
when he very obviously can't act?
His leading lady Hansika Motwani can act. She does so in every
moment, countering Reshammiya's deadpan expressions with an
overdose of facial gymnastics, which qualify her as the new age
all-purpose Barbie doll.
Rock meets deadwood in this mixture of staged splendour and
doctored misadventure. The locations are well exploited by Manoj
Soni's camera. The frames avoid garish overstatement. But a
quiet confidence is no substitute for genuine ability.
Both Reshammiya and his director fail to generate a high level
of curiosity in the screen adventures of the nasal drifter.
Reshammiya, cancel the sequel
IANS.
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