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If you want to punish someone then recommend them to watch this!
Oh God! What a terrible terrible movie!
And just so you know I fell asleep in the midst....
Ha ha ha
It WAS that terrible.
The story premise is good enough. A writer - director gets a writers block and his protagonists are then frozen in time until the writer unfreezes!
But the director got it so horribly wrong....
And the he had the cheek to end it all by saying a film by Vikramjit Singh ....
Gosh if I had made something so terrible I never ever would put my name to it...
2 such bad movies in 2 weeks...
Bollywood you are descending into the realm of grandiose ideas with utterly flawed execution...
To be experimental is just peachy. Look how well Queen and Lunchbox worked. As did Haider. 
But if you can't follow through then please don't put out a product with big name stars and inveigle poor unsuspecting souls like us to come to the theatres and waste our time and money.
Ranbir said in an interview that he isn't promoting the film as he had a small role, but truth be told he probably didn't want anything further to do with this misery of a movie. Seriously he needs to think hard about his career. From Besharam to this.... its like going from the frying pan into the fire. And if Bombay Velvet too is as pathetic then he will have to do something extra special to claw his way back. And the truth is that in this movie he actually has a decent sized role. But all that he does is carry the same expression throughout and it doesn't help that 90% of his face is covered with hair.
What a waste...
Arjun Rampal broods and scowls his way through the movie and Jacqueline is maxed out playing a double role! This lady can barely manage one role per movie so imagine getting her to do a double role. Really? I mean what were you thinking?
The cinematographic tone of the movie is fine but I was too bored to enjoy that and the songs came and went leaving no delible mark!
All in all avoid unless you have masochistic tendencies!


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