Come one, come all, to the biggest travesty of them all. Not a very good effort at rhyming, but that’s just me trying to keep in with the way the ‘Jimmy’ has been made. Remember Gabbar Singh’s ‘Kitne Aadmni thhe?’, or Shashi Kapoor’s ‘Mere paas Ma hai’? well, add to that distinguished list a dialogue from this magnum opus – “ Do you think I am a rejected man?” Yea, that is probably the most powerful dialogue, said by no less than the main villain during the climax of the movie, which just goes to show how pathetic the movie can be. There is more such rib tickling ‘serious’ scenes…..but, all in good time.
First, a little background of the movie. Slated to be the launch vehicle of Mimoh Chakravarty, son of the legendary Mithun Chakravarty, the story and script of the movie just caged Mimoh into giving one of the worst performances of the year, and that too in only his first movie. Truly commendable. The story is no different from what his father was doing in the eighties and nineties. Dancing around needlessly, always the same four moves that he can pull off. Its like watching Mithun Chakravarty in 4X, all you can see are glimpses of his legs moving around like butterfly wings, while the upper part of his body remains almost motionless. That’s dancing for you. A word about the music. In fact, a lot of words about the music. Remember Bappi Lahari and Mithun Chakravarty’s hit jodi? Well, this movie marks the beginning of a new era. Bappi’s son Bappa Lahari has given music, and the way he has lifted music from Eminem’s Shake that Ass is truly heart warming. Like father, Like son, eh? In other Lahari trivia, I have it from reliable sources that the next generation of the Lahai kids would be named thus: Bappu, Bappey, Bappau…after which they’ll resort to numbers, for example Bap1, Bap2, Bap3. I hear its going top be a copyright thing.
A peek into the story, then. Jimmy (probably inspired by the hit song ‘Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy, Aaja, Aaja, Aaja’ from Disco Dancer), is, what else, but a dancer in a night club, trying to pay off his father’s huge loans. And with dialogues like “ Meri ek-ek saans aapke paas girvi rahegi…”, the movie has managed to take bollywood back to the eighties in one, swift moment. He is then told by the doctors that he has brain tumour. Really, the industry wallahs have to get a bit more imaginative. Anyhow, the latest update on the tally goes something like this:
Heroes affected by Tumour – 196
Heroes suffering from Cancer – 178
Other diseases – Zero, Zilch, Nada.
So yea, the hero is dying, and in love with a rich girl, and has a very rich best friend. The makers would have done better to name the movie Cliché. How the movie expected to do well in 2007 is beyond the realms of logic. Then the movie gets…..well, interesting. And no, I don’t easily give up on being sarcastic. Jimmy takes responsibility of a murder, so that his mother can receive the money from the real killers, and then finds out he isn’t dying, after all. So, thus happens the prison break and the search for the real killers. A must watch, but only if all the video libraries in the world have shut shop and your life depends on watching a movie, and this is the only disc available. Although some might disagree, but somehow, I don’t thinks its bad enough to stop living anymore. But then, that’s just my personal belief.
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