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Nothing to take pride in
Garv (Hindi)
Cast: Salman Khan,
Shilpa Shetty
Director: Punit Issar
Music: Sajid-Wajid
FIRST COMES pride. Then the fall. But here in Punit Issar's film, there is nothing to extol, nothing to exult over, nothing rising over a sea of mediocrity, absolutely nothing to take pride in. There is just a free fall, and if one must succumb to temptation, there is just shame. Shame at wasting such a glorious chance to come up with something dashing within the mainstream, and tell the abiding fans of Salman Khan that Tere Naam last year was not just a flash in the pan, that the Khan often in the news for the wrong reasons is very much on the right track.
That is not to be, as in this moth-eaten tale of an honest cop versus the underworld-politician combine there is nothing we have not seen and been weary of in the past. But it is not as if this film suffers only from the laws of marginal utility. It seems to have been made from the leftovers of yesterday's juvenility.
Story? Well, if you insist, Salman plays a cop in this film after a long, long time. Like any good cop in Hindi films, he is up against the system, which is built specially for crooked politicians, conniving dons to exploit. For good measure, the director remembers that his hero is Salman, who is not particularly renowned for favouring his shirt. So, at the first opportunity he drops his uniform, in fact the shirt altogether. Whether he is exercising in front of a doting mother ready with a glass of milk - Farida Jalal in the role she seems to have monopolised in recent times - or sulking in jail, his torso is highlighted. And if ever we needed proof that facial muscles are not the best ally of Salman in emoting, here it comes in all its brawny glory.
Incidentally, we also have Shilpa Shetty, similarly in the news for the wrong reasons. She plays a bar girl who keeps Salman able company in more ways than one. A heroine here who is little more than a two-item number girl, Shilpa is given very few lines and makes the best statement through her belly button. The fact that the camera focuses there more often than her face says where the film is headed. Yes, despite Shilpa's desperate skin show, Garv has nothing to take pride in. And despite Salman's muscle power, it falls quite short, simply because the film has no body, no structure, no spine.
ZIYA US SALAM
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