Ebn-e-batuta, hindi Bollywood Film Movie Review, Johnson Thomas, Rating: * *
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Hindi film review
Low brow comic sci-fi caper
Film: Ebn- E –Batuta
Cast: Omkar Das Manikpuri, Rajeev Verma, Dev Gohar,
Satyendra Khare, Nazea Sayed
Director: Varun Middha
Rating: * *
This film has an
ambitious storyline but the resultant is not as forthcoming. The film is set in
a nondescript village in Punjab. Three men- Heera (Omkar Das manikpuri) who wants to be a
leader, Vijay who wants to be an Actor
and Lovely who wants his love
Bubbly(Nazea Sayed) come together because they are basically outcasts. While on
one of their everyday jaunts, they come in contact with an alien spaceship with
two aliens who can talk hindi. So they take them home and introduce them to the
village. At the Panch meeting, one of the aliens is able to save a man
suffering from an attack of fits and soon enough the village proclaims them
God. A temple is built and they give regular darshan and this leads to a group
of thugs taking them over while the three original finders are left to sulk in
silence. But all is not as well as it seems. The aliens are actually here to
steal gravity and only a mad sciuentists who has been preparing for this
coming, recognizes their evil. He tries to kill the aliens but is killed
instead and now it’s left to the three layabouts to save the earth and rescue
civilization.
Noble
high-sounding intentions don’t always fructify in the manner they are intended
to. This film is no different. As a comedy it’s certainly engaging but as a
sci-fi there’s obviously a lot more to be desired. The make-up is terrible and
the tech job is so poor as to be pitiable. The alien ship looks like a poorly
finished cardboard model while the alien
suits look like cheap spandex coated with plastic. The lot of actors are more
or less unrecognizable so the expectations are low enough for them to measure
up. Omkar Das Manikpuri once again reestablishes his stature as a wooden actor-
even so director’s still take him on in the hope that the film will sell on his
name alone. Even the so called message is quite confounding. These sort of
films barely last the week even in a single show in the multiplexes. Other than
the sad-sack humor and silly shtick, this one has little distinction to prop it
up beyond the standard run for such fare!
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