Waqt (2005)

Nice effects though.

Let's be realistic.

An Exercise In Nonsense

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Amitabh (Ishwarchand) and Akshay Kumar (Aditya) are father and son, very very close to each other - yes very, they sing and dance together in night clubs, frolic together on beaches... Shefali Shetty is the mom. Aditya is a ne'er do well, and fully supported by his father. Turns out father is dying of blood cancer and has not told the son. The reason are silly, the ultimate engineered rift between father and son is is highly contrived, the situation that follows is even worse. There is a pregnant wife (Priyanka Chopra) who has to starve, Aditya is either picking leaves off lawns or being mauled by hungry dogs as a stunt man. BTW, the dogs seemed to be more playful than voracious. Then Aditya gets the break to make it big in showbiz and realizes what is wrong with dad - a tearjerker stage scene follows. The son is born held in grandpa's arms before he dies. The story is thin, lacks any substance whatsoever. The acting is mostly just about okay. The shine out folks are Shefali Shetty, Boman Irani and Rajpal Yadav. They make the film bearable. Music is strictly forgettable and all in all this one barely qualifies as a time pass. Watch it if you cannot go to sleep due to insomnia or jet-lag.

I saw two movies over the weekend, One was "kaal" and the other "Waqt". Both movies are made in "Bollywood" but they are worlds apart. The fundamental difference is the Story and the Director. Vipul Shaw made his indelible mark with "Ankhen", one of the best Comedy Hindi movies. His Casting of the Charecteres is perfect. The story apparently taken from a Gujerati Play is awesome,the treatment is superb with some exceptions. In Bollywood when a movie is put together the first thing a Bollywood Director is prone to do is sign up a music director and this guy (mediocre Malik in this instance)is obligated to drum up six songs to fulfill his contract. So even a good Director like Vipul Shah has to use them to appease the Finacier and the Grandma's who just cant get enough of these numbers. No Music director can churn out good songs relentlessly as clearly evident in this movie. None of the songs have any melody and they are clearly intrusive to the narration of the story except the background music and the westernized version of the Bharat-Natyam. The duelling and role playing the Father and Son is good acting by Bachachan and Akshay Kumar. His stunt scenes are clearly outstanding. A good director surrounds himself with good actors and he is willing to wait till a good story comes along as in this super movie. Then we have a cheap classless tasteless Producer like Sharukh Khan who will stoop low as to shamelessly plug and promote a trash like "Kaal" to enrich himself at the cost of the betterment of Art, and they surround themselves with borderline talent, and they recoup the investment before the word gets around. These are the Bollywood locusts who prey on the unsuspected audience to garner "Film Farce" awards given by Bollywood Chamcha's and most of them are in the Media.

this is just usual Indian garbage that gets turned out as cinema, as Indians we can proudly boast that we have the biggest cinema industry, however it also the worst.how can other poor countries have films with real characters that challenge the views of their respective societies and we just keep on pumping out garbage. take a look at Russia, Iran, china and Latin America, look at the brilliant films they have and we get crap like Kisna!!get real people, no wonder the international community in general laughs at Indian cinema.

First of all there is Gujarati Theatre then there is Bollywood. Both have their strengths and fan following. Director Vipul Shah should look elsewhere instead of Gujarati Theatre when making a Bollywood production. First he made Aankhen (adapted from a Gujarati play) - which had a unique plot, but could not hold as a Hindi film. Now he's adapted another Gujarati play and named it Waqt - a race against time. In sum, the emotions are alien. The plot development is not for Hindi films. For example, the role play between father and son is best left to Gujarati Theatre - don't bring it in a Hindi film. Even the comedy track is best left for the Gujarati stage. All performances are average - nothing to shout about - barring Shefali Chhaya Shah who is fantastic.