Aamir

One more over hyped movie in a week. As with “In Bruges” just couple of days back, had gone for Aamir with high expectations. But alas….

To its credit, the story is actually different than the usual Johar/Yash Raj crap, albeit a copy of south asian flick “Cavite”. The story is of Aamir, a UK returning doctor to visit his family in Mumbai. He gets robbed at the airport and is handed a phone. He keeps getting instructions to get a job done and is warned that his family will be killed if he won’t do it. This job carries him to muslim dominated areas of the city. Along with the instructions for the job, the captivator tries to brainwash aamir and fill him with ideas of jehad and high morality of mujaheddin. The story ends with Aamir being forced to become a suicide bomber, but he ends of killing just himself.

The film is the launch vehicle for Rajeev Khandelwal, its a very bold choice to enter bollywood with such different movie. His portrayal of helpless victim is good, but he has his limits and fails to do justice to the extreme closeup shots. The captor, the boss who is making Aamir do things, played by Gajraj Rao is much better. His menacing terrorist is well etched, even in the scene where all we see is his hands stroking a child’s cheeks.

Now to direction. Though the debutant director Raj Kumar Gupta has got decent performances from his main actors as well as the supporting cast, he fails on technical aspects. There are glaring continuity mistakes all through the movie. The overcrowding of extras doesn’t help too. It seems he has used the residents of the locations for that realistic feel, but this amateurs keep staring at the camera ( supposedly staring at aamir) and thus spoil the mood.

Overall a decent flick, watch it if you want something different than the usual song & dance sequences of bollywood. But don’t expect too much.