RACE against Sanity

An extended festival weekend. A group of friends. A movie with sexy promos. What more could one ask to start a weekend? Yes, it all looked so perfectly wonderful. But we all forgot that the world isn’t perfect. Sigh.

It all began on Thursday evening when yours truly decided to initiate a class visit to the movie ‘Race’ the next day. 12 people turned up for the movie and we all went inside the theatre with high hopes of seeing an Abbas-Mustan masterpiece. And I must admit that we weren’t disappointed for almost the whole of the first half of the movie. Horse racing, stud farms, Porsche’s and Ferrari’s, hot Babes gyrating for your-eyes-only, (alas! “Zara zara touch me” made me gasp for more and more). All ingredients for a perfect masala flick.

All was well until the introduction of the Fruit-wala Anil Kapoor (RD) and his dumb-side-kick Sameera Reddy. RD is a Karamchand-like character who is more loyal to fruits than to his job. And fruits played an important role in the movie as they were the catalyst to the third-rate-jokes that the directors thought would tickle our funny bone. The only thing they managed to tickle was the longest nerve on our head which made us chant “maro-maro”.

Then there were the twists and turns in the movie that were more dangerous than the curves of Katrina Kaif. Just when we were getting a hang of what had happened, the directors threw in another twist in the tale which left us numb-skulled. This wasn’t all. The acting in the movie was preposterous. You could make monkeys gesture better than some of the actors in this movie (Declaration: Use of Monkey here does not in any way imply any form of racism).

And the brain-bleach-moment came in the last scene of the movie when the protagonist says it’s not yet over, which implies hold-your-breath a sequel! I believe it’s going to be a tough job for the directors to make something worse than this goo-inspired movie. But, great people always better their achievements and I believe that this great director-duo are no exceptions! So, watch out for their next magnum opus! And I’ll be watching it, you bet.