MOVIE ZING

Movie Name : Thank You

Banner: UTV Motion Pictures

Release Date: April 8, 2011

Language: Hindi

Genre: Comedy / Romance

Shooting Studios: Filmistan

Producer: Ronnie Screwvala

Director: Anees Bazmee

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Suniel Shetty, Celina Jaitly, Irrfan Khan
Rimi Sen

Story / Writer: Anees Bazmee

Akshay Kumar and Anees Bazmee's blockbuster team is back in new movie Thank You after giving superhits like Singh Is King and Welcome.This movie is produced by Ronnie Screwvala under UTV Motion Pictures, along with the co-producer Siddharth Roy Kapur. Anees Bazmee is back with another comedy on the theme of adultery, perhaps with commercial considerations of reviving the success of No Entry. Sadly this Shaadi No.1-meets-Biwi No.1 narrative is adulterated with so many tacky references that you end up saying thank you but no thank you. In this movie you have Kishan (Akshay Kumar) who acts more like Narad Muni inciting Raj (Bobby Deol) and Vikram (Irrfan Khan) against good friend Yogi (Suniel Shetty). And then he provokes their unsuspecting wives against the perpetually philandering husbands, exposing their skirt-chasing escapades. By interval point, Raj's wife Sanjana (Sonam Kapoor) claims to be disillusioned and wants to end life. The viewer is as much disappointed and wants to walk out. But Kishan assures to set things right and, like Sanjana, you too give the film a second chance only to curse your decision later. So self-proclaimed private detective Kishan helps the females get even with the males and how you wish he would have helped you solve the mystery of what's the actual tale. He poses as the other man to inject jealousy pangs in Raj until he asks for divorce. For the zillionth time the hero rushes to the shaadi-ka-mandap in the climax to win the heroine and lose the audience. And just when you expect the trauma to terminate, the film extends into an epilogue going in the flashback mode introducing a bonus actress who adds absolutely nothing to the narrative other than more mediocrity. Further social sermons are served on greatness of the female form and thanklessness of the male. Yet the women are expected to forgive the womanizers. Akshay Kumar reprises Sanjay Dutt's role from the unimpressive Shaadi No.1 in the first half and goes on to replicate Anil Kapoor's part from Biwi No.1 in the second. It's never clear whether Bazmee wants to show if Kishan is charmed by Sanjana or not. So the one-upmanship between Raj and Kishan is palpably missing and even the surprise element in climax, like in Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, doesn't register. Knowing that Sonam Kapoor and Bobby Deol can't act for nuts, Bazmee tries to balance it off by giving Irrfan Khan and Rimmi Sen more mileage. And though the two try their best to salvage the situation with their decent comic timings, the load is too much for them to handle. Suniel Shetty and Celina Jaitly's roles are look like formality in the movie.