{"id":735,"date":"2007-04-30T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2007\/04\/review-ta-ra-rum-pum-2.html"},"modified":"2023-01-24T01:39:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:39:49","slug":"review-ta-ra-rum-pum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2007\/04\/review-ta-ra-rum-pum-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Review : Ta ra rum pum"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"Rating : Below average (2.8\/5)
\nGenre : All-in-one
\nYear : 2007
\nRunning time : 3 hours
\nDirector : Siddharth Anand
\nCast : Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Javed Jaffrey, Angelina Idnani, Ali Haji<\/strong><\/p>\n

TA RA RUM PUM : SLICK PACKAGE CAN\u2019T SAVE THIS ONE<\/p>\n

Another film from the director who made Salaam Namaste<\/strong><\/a>. And as I leave the theatre, I\u2019m wondering how old the guy is. He\u2019s actually 27 or more, I\u2019m amazed to find. You\u2019d think at 27 you\u2019d make less juvenile movies. But no, TRRP proves me wrong.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d seen the trailer, so had a pretty good idea what the movie was about. If you\u2019ve heard about it even in passing, you know it\u2019s about car-racing \u2013 Rajveer Singh or RV (Saif) being the car-racer, who\u2019s starts out as pit-crew but ends up behind the wheel when he accidentally impresses a racing team\u2019s manger (Jafri). He also meets pretty young pianist Radhika (Rani), they fall in love and wedding pheras (sans Radhika\u2019s Dad\u2019s blessings) follow. A lovely modern house, and two precocious, annoying kids (Champ and Princess) help complete the suburban, desi, richie-rich package in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

And all is well until (surprise, surprise) RV speeds into disaster at the race-track . . .<\/p>\n

The film is set in New York, so nice, polished locales are a given. Plus if you\u2019ve seen SN, you know the director pays attention to detail \u2013 clothes, sets the works. The film even features a cartoon character filled song. The story is the usual \u2013 happy-happy romancing, marriage and kids etc. and then problems strike. The film ran along it\u2019s predicted path pretty tamely, and if I had to relate to you the entire story verbally, it would be a saga of un-ending sentences starting with boring \u201cAnd then \u2026\u2026\u201ds.<\/p>\n

By the time the interval came, it seemed like eons had passed, and not a single emotion in that first-half had moved me \u2013 I had trouble believing, and sympathizing with the flaky characters. One does not feel for morons. Major flaws in Rani\u2019s characterization \u2013 pre-marriage, she\u2019s thrifty even being super-rich, and post-marriage the woman can\u2019t open her mouth to tell her extravagant, \u201clet\u2019s pay for everything in installments\u201d husband to straighten up. Plus being a parent, I was pretty ticked off with the whole \u201clet\u2019s not tell the kid\u2019s we are poor\u201d philosophy. Kids are smarter than that \u2013 they\u2019ll cotton on. Yes, people make mistakes, and do dumb stuff, and my problem is not with the fact that Radhika and RV do all of that \u2013 what leaves me unmoved is that they have very few redeeming qualities.<\/p>\n

Rani appears as a rich, college-girl majoring in music, in the first half of the film. Thus, I assume the choice of mini-skirts \u2013 which Rani can\u2019t carry off at all (unless she majorly loses weight). She ends up looking dumpy. And that terrible, fusili<\/a>-inspired hair-do didn\u2019t help at all. What exactly was that supposed to be ? Delicate tendrils of hair framing her face? It widened her face, and she looked vacuous. Along with the mini-skirted bottom, she looked like a walking-talking cylinder \u2013 which is amazing because she\u2019s a gorgeous woman and I\u2019d imagine you\u2019d have to try hard to make her look bad. Saif could stand to lose some weight too.<\/p>\n

The kids, who were specially selected to play these roles, did well, considering the terrible, and sometimes very mature lines they were given \u2013 I\u2019m thinking which kid actually talks like this ? Kids are mostly smart and interesting to talk to \u2013 why are they always so annoyingly ESP-ish on desi films ? Whatever credit is due in this film, goes to Javed Jafri as strongly accented Harry, and Rani who\u2019s managed to imbue this improbable role with some sincerity. I didn\u2019t feel Saif in this film at all, no spark, no sizzle, and his sweat-encrusted face (in his helmet) was a total turn-off \u2013 he looked like he had cold sores all over his face. Plus the name RV \u2013 when I hear RV, all I can think of is recreational vehicle (the kind SRK drove in Swades).<\/p>\n

The second half is just about tolerable, and that\u2019s a relative measure because the first half left me indifferent. Tepid, very tepid, and in retrospect something I wished I hadn\u2019t watched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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