Ugly Aur Pagli (2008)

Excellent but underrated film

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

well,to start off,I say--TO COPY SOME1'S LITERARY WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION IS A CRIME(PLAGIARISM),BUT TO COPY IT PATHETICALLY IS A SIN"!!Another famous proverb in Hindi says--NAKAL BHI AKAL KE SAATH BAJTI HAI (It requires brains to copy well)To start off,this film is a scene-to-scene,dialogue-to-dialogue rip of Yeopgijeogin geunyeo(2001).Now why do Hindi film makers have to copy foreign/regional films,is what I fail to comprehend.Its simply because of the fact that they fail to invest in the core of any film,that is a story.They pick up a hit plot & plagiarize it.I would appreciate this practice if a copyright licence is obtained.(even though BUM BUM BOLE wasn't well made,yet it was an official remake of Children of heaven(Iranian movie))Anyways,coming back to Ugly aur Ugly...oops,I mean Ugly aur Pagli,its 1 contrived effort which infuriates you through its awkwardness.The director simply copies the scenes without even making the slightest attempt to modify them according to Indian tastes.oh I'm sorry,he does actually,like changing the location of shoe exchange scene from college campus to beach.the amusement park scene from the original shifts to a roof top & Left foot-right foot game scene is shot in a mall.More importantly,the director misses the undertones which are most beautifully depicted in the 2001 Korean movie.Why does Tae Hyun Cha(Gyeon Woo/Kyun Woo) stand upon the yellow line in metro station??(watch the film)).Why does The Girl(Gianna Jun)ask Tae Hyun Cha whether he can swim??(watch the movie).Now you can plagiarize scenes but not the undertones & emotions thus leaving the viewer irritated as Ugly aur Pagli is devoid of such artistry.May be the director of Mallika-Shorey starrer himself failed to comprehend the deep meanings,undertones & layers of emotions conveyed.He just re shot the scenes without much thought process involved.May be he needs to watch Yeopgijeogin geunyeo again (& again & again & again........)to realize what blunder he has made.He just touches the topic superficially without understanding how multi layered the Korean movie was.Even the Unintentionally comic scripts Gianna Jun wrote in the film conveyed a lot about her state of mind(which is disclosed in the climax in a subtle way,I won't tell).Neither could Mallika match the brilliance of Gianna in this bizarre role nor could Shorey generate sympathy for himself as Tae Hyun Cha's innocence does.(even though Shorey is a fine actor but script is so flawed,his attempt fails)Background score helps melodramatic scenes portray better.In Ugly aur Pagli,the music & background score score nothing(though Talli song is a saving grace).While in 2001 korean film,the Piano pieces used as background score arein perfect sync with the mood of the film,thus carrying forward the narrative.The song "I BELIEVE",whenever played,moves you.(especially when Hyun Cha sits on escalator stairs helplessly at metro station with Gianna Jun searching him).The comedy scenes in ugly aur pagli are boring & evoke no interest whatsoever.In fact,so poorly executed,you will feel boredom in all those scenes.In the end,after reading this review,you all might be saying that I've drawn a lot of parallels between the 2 films,but can't help it.Its just like Watching a shawshank redemption or a dark knight on pirated disc having watched it on BLU RAY earlier!!Trust me,neither is this Ugly & Pagli watchable nor the English remake(2008)(Though Cuthbert is a fine actress).Watch this innocent romcom in korean instead & fall the Love!!

I've always wondered why I haven't seen that much of Mallika Sherawat in films and now I know why. Ugly or Pagli is just the kind of pointless, mindless stupid excuse for a SLAPstick comedy film that she acts in. It's so bad that every copy of this movie should be thrown in the garbage and burned to a cancerous crisp! The foolishness begins as the starter credits role and we are treated to mindless clips of mismatched couples making out for the camera and posing for candids, and when the opening song ends, we are told that there is someone for everyone in this world and that is the supposed moral of the story.Ranbir Shorey wastes his talent playing loser who keeps flunking out of Engineering school (duh! why won't you flunk when you spend half your time hanging out with your loser friends at bars and checking out the latest hottest chick in town?). One day, on his way home from school he notices a young lady about to fall over onto the train tracks and rushes to save her. A gust of wind blows as he does this and as her hair flies away from her face, Mallika Sherawat's Cuckoo Kuhu is revealed. Ranbir's loser falls instantly in love with her only to find out that she's a feminist slap-fit drunkard. He tries to help her but everything keeps going wrong as the night progresses. The next day, he awakes to find a mysterious cellphone ringing, he answers it and Kuhu is on the other end screaming that he is obviously the thief who stole her phone. They agree to meet and loser guy explains everything that happened the night before to her and she takes him out to lunch to show her weird gratitude. This is the beginning of their whirlwind Ugly and Crazy relationship. And as the film progresses, loser begins to discover that his crazy new girlfriend might just be truly insane. Kuhu likes to write futuristic film scripts in which women rule the world and men are they slaves or toys, and also loves to pretend that she is Rose Dewitt Bukater from Titanic. Think that's weird? Watch the film.Don't even bother with the songs, the best one plays in the beginning and everything else is pure garbage. And Miss Sherawat looked right at home with it all, from her endless parade of sleazy underwear in every song she showed up in to the banal lyrics. I don't even understand why nearly every song in the film was Latin American themed, with Reggeaton beats and Spanish dance moves. Every song is either about getting laid, or getting drunk. There was even one lyric that went something along the lines of "Undress me with your hot breathing" UGH! I mean, for the love of everything humane in this world, I hope something was lost in translation.Most Unacceptable to me was a scene where loser boy goes to 'Yashram' studios(an offensive a spoof of Yash Raj Films) in Mumbai with one of Kuhu's scripts and presents it as an Original. The talent scout responds that even "God's own work is not original" and the subtitler made sure that the God was spelt with a capital "G". For the life of me, I have never seen God spelt with a capital "G" in a Hindi film but I've always attributed to the fact that Hindus worships lots of smaller gods therefore they are not referring to the singular "Supreme Being" Christian God nor the singular "Allah" (in Islam) when they say god. I was stunned and offended but as most would say, it's just a stupid film and perhaps a faux pas on the part of the writers.Bottomline: UGLY AUR PAGLI is just that in more ways than 1. I give it a whopping F-

At the cost of being called stupid let me confess, I had Hopes!!!.Not very high hopes but I expected a movie along the lines of Pyaar Ke Side Effects, I even went prepared with the right company (girls), in fact i even hoped a bit more considering that Ranvir should be able to pull of the hen pecked boyfriend better than Rahul.But alas it was not to be.What i got was more of a confused film that went neither here nor there and left me with that Ugly feeling of being let down.Clearly the weakest part of the movie is the script, Even if we are to believe that a bunch of 30 somethings are in college (better than the 70s i know but...), its hard to believe the madness thats being pushed across as real, THE MOVIE FAILS AT BOTH TRYING TO BE REAL AND LARGER THAN LIFE WITH BOTH TYPES OF SCENES HAVING THE HANGOVER OF THE OTHER.THE MUSIC SAVE FOR "Mein Talli.." IS SO BAD THAT YOU ALMOST FORGET THE EVEN WORST PLACEMENT AND EDITING OF THE SONGS.And whats with the sati savitri Mallika in her own words, we don't come to see her fully clothed, hell besides one song where she looked quite sexy (which was ruined because the songs were just so pathetic), she didn't even expose in goa for gods sake.The only saving grace of the movie was the acting which was decent given the weak script, both Ranvir and Mallika did a decent job but thanks to the badly written script, many scenes looked like they were being hammed. And lets be frank Ranvir cant dance sala, so why is he doing it so much.I suspect the movie has been copied from some movie because of the scenes were not the kind you normally see in Indian movies. In fact i would like to go on a limb and say it is some Asian movie, who are more atuned to obsessive love and such themes.In all we have a poor movie that is best avoided, not suitable for any audience, in any mood.-s script, songs, jokes, editing, songs, songs, editing, script.+/-s acting or script which is to blamed??!!No exposure.+s decent acting, A FEW FUNNY SCENES.total 4/10 (i have factored in the fact that it fell below my expectations but don't want to exclude that and give it a five which makes it an OK movie which it definitely is not, i went with people who expected bad and the got it and those who had no idea they were seeing this and still found it bad so....)

"It was senseless."Well, Mallika would have accepted the script 'cause she is kind of "Girls are better than Boys" kind of person, but Ranvir ????? I wonder why he signed it.There were certain emotional moments that couldn't make me empathize (with Mallika mostly).There was a scene about birthday present; now, even the world's most silliest girl wouldn't do that nor even the boy would be so silly. Less comedy, or should I say only two-three situations/lines were good.Well, I feel like my money wasted, buying a ticket. Rather change your TV channel if it is aired. Buying A DVD?? Out of question.I was sheerly disappointed 'cause I liked "Pyaar ke side-effects". The only good thing was Ranvir's acting.