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| Game |
Cast : Jeet, Subhasree Gangopadhyay
Director
: Baba Yadav
Jeet Ganguly
: A. R. Murugadoss
: N. K. Salil
: N. K. Salil
: P. Selvakumar
: Mohammad Kalam
: Rocky Rajesh
: Nakash Aziz, Akriti Kakkar
Army captain Abhimanyu (Jeet) comes home on
vacation, only to unravel a terrorist plot to carry out serial blasts in
Kolkata. He goes on to outwit and exterminate the terrorists involved.
Give us a believable plot and we're game. And that's what Game is — believable, though your belief gets a bit stretched at times. But what else can you expect from a commercial masala flick? It has the right dose of romance, comedy, action and incredulity to make it big at the box office. The script is crisp, thanks to its Tamil film industry origins, and the pace is engaging.
But — pardon my nagging curiosity — we would surely love to know the source of all the weapons in circulation in the flick. And, of course, the way they seem to materialize out of thin air! You may be in the army, may be a hot shot intelligence officer, but even the mai baap of them all, James Bond, is helpless without Q! So, Abhimanyu providing 12 bags with loaded handguns to his army-mates right after a black-tie wedding is a bit...ahem! How do we put it? Far-fetched? Guess that's the word.
But don't judge this book by a few of its pages. It's a good package — light in parts, nail-biting in others. Jeet looks every bit the shrewd army intelligence officer, Subhasree is all smiles as his pretty fiance, Sudipta Ballav shines as the tense cop and Abhimanyu's harassed friend while Saurav Chakraborty adds a Bollywood touch to his character of a merciless terrorist mastermind. And as we mentioned earlier, the storyline is engaging and racy. Director Baba Yadav deserves quite a few pats on the back for that.
As for the technical departments, well, P Shelva Kumar has done a commendable job as the cinematographer, especially during the adrenaline-pumping chase sequences. But the special effects leave one pining for some more realism. The blast scenes — in a bus and then a ferry — are too old-school in this time and age. The days of superimposing fire on an object to depict a bomb explosion are long gone.
Give us a believable plot and we're game. And that's what Game is — believable, though your belief gets a bit stretched at times. But what else can you expect from a commercial masala flick? It has the right dose of romance, comedy, action and incredulity to make it big at the box office. The script is crisp, thanks to its Tamil film industry origins, and the pace is engaging.
But — pardon my nagging curiosity — we would surely love to know the source of all the weapons in circulation in the flick. And, of course, the way they seem to materialize out of thin air! You may be in the army, may be a hot shot intelligence officer, but even the mai baap of them all, James Bond, is helpless without Q! So, Abhimanyu providing 12 bags with loaded handguns to his army-mates right after a black-tie wedding is a bit...ahem! How do we put it? Far-fetched? Guess that's the word.
But don't judge this book by a few of its pages. It's a good package — light in parts, nail-biting in others. Jeet looks every bit the shrewd army intelligence officer, Subhasree is all smiles as his pretty fiance, Sudipta Ballav shines as the tense cop and Abhimanyu's harassed friend while Saurav Chakraborty adds a Bollywood touch to his character of a merciless terrorist mastermind. And as we mentioned earlier, the storyline is engaging and racy. Director Baba Yadav deserves quite a few pats on the back for that.
As for the technical departments, well, P Shelva Kumar has done a commendable job as the cinematographer, especially during the adrenaline-pumping chase sequences. But the special effects leave one pining for some more realism. The blast scenes — in a bus and then a ferry — are too old-school in this time and age. The days of superimposing fire on an object to depict a bomb explosion are long gone.
The music is mediocre at best, though the song
sequences are not ill-timed. But it's always kind of jarring when the lead pair
suddenly starts dancing or riding superbikes in Dubai right after sharing
romantic looks in some locality in, say, south Kolkata! That always gets my
goat. Don't know about the rest of you. But trust me, Game is an intelligent
movie, with a lot of firepower and mindless fun. It's the kind of movie that
doesn't, for a minute, make you regret why you bought that ticket. So, go, have
fun. The game is on.
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