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Nagesh Kukunoor has always been one to push the conventional boundaries in filmmaking in inimitably understated way, but looks like he's headed down the same street as Manoj Night Shyamalan. This is why, when you see 'Aashayien' with its formulaic plot and clich'd characters, there is a certain sense of void. It is almost as bad as the one Rahul (John Abraham) feels when he gets to know that he has lung cancer.
Armed with a windfall of 3 crore he just won in gambling just before receiving the news, Rahul lands up at a hospital for the terminally ill, a venue rife with clich's thanks to the lazy characterisation of the people in there. There's the ex-prostitute (Farida Jalal), the man estranged from his family (Girish Karnad) and the mandatory strict head Sister (Prateeksha Lonkar). There's also a spunky teenager, Padma (played quite well by Anaitha Nair) who happens to be the only bright spark among the dim gallery of stereotypes.
From the time the premise is set up, you can pretty much predict the film, but what's really unsettling is that you can almost predict it scene for scene. Consequently, the heart wrenching emotion it was supposed to inspire falls terribly flat. John Abraham is very average in the performance department and it reminds you how acting can make a big difference to a pedestrian script (think Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in 'The Bucket List'). The problem with 'Aashayein' is that it decides to use off-the-shelf emotional manipulative writing to come off as a noble film. Maybe one day, a Kukunoor movie will make it to your bucket list, but that day for now will have to wait.
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TSI Five-O: 'Anand' version 2.0 corrupted by the virus of lazy writing and ho hum acting
Nagesh Kukunoor has always been one to push the conventional boundaries in filmmaking in inimitably understated way, but looks like he's headed down the same street as Manoj Night Shyamalan. This is why, when you see 'Aashayien' with its formulaic plot and clich'd characters, there is a certain sense of void. It is almost as bad as the one Rahul (John Abraham) feels when he gets to know that he has lung cancer.
Armed with a windfall of 3 crore he just won in gambling just before receiving the news, Rahul lands up at a hospital for the terminally ill, a venue rife with clich's thanks to the lazy characterisation of the people in there. There's the ex-prostitute (Farida Jalal), the man estranged from his family (Girish Karnad) and the mandatory strict head Sister (Prateeksha Lonkar). There's also a spunky teenager, Padma (played quite well by Anaitha Nair) who happens to be the only bright spark among the dim gallery of stereotypes.
From the time the premise is set up, you can pretty much predict the film, but what's really unsettling is that you can almost predict it scene for scene. Consequently, the heart wrenching emotion it was supposed to inspire falls terribly flat. John Abraham is very average in the performance department and it reminds you how acting can make a big difference to a pedestrian script (think Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in 'The Bucket List'). The problem with 'Aashayein' is that it decides to use off-the-shelf emotional manipulative writing to come off as a noble film. Maybe one day, a Kukunoor movie will make it to your bucket list, but that day for now will have to wait.
For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
IIPM Marches Ahead in B-School Rankings...
IIPM Proves Its Mettle Once Again...
IIPM BBA MBA Institute: Student Notice Board
An array of unconventional career options
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Indian universities and higher education institutes seem to be caught in a time warp teaching things
Best Colleges for Vocational Courses in India
INDIA'S BEST COLLEGES, INSTITUTES and UNIVERSITIES
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