एक्शन रीप्ले
Directed by:
Vipul Amrutlal ShahCast:
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Kiron Kher, Om Puri, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Neha Dhupia, Rannvijay Singh, Randhir Kapoor, Alok Kumar, Rajpal Yadav (more)Plots(1)
Bunty loves his girlfriend Tanya but runs a mile whenever she mentions marriage. His phobia with matrimony stems from his parents Kishen and Mala's acrimonious marriage. But now Bunty is in a fix. Tanya's grandfather, Professor Anthony Gonsalves, as given him an ultimatum - get married to Tanya or stop seeing her. Bunty knows that unless he does something fast, his dreams of living happily ever after with Tanya will bite the dust. As Bunty's surprise party for his parent's 35th wedding anniversary deteriorates into yet another explosive fight between Kishen and Mala; he decides to turn back the clock and rewrite Kishen and Mala's destiny and alter their disastrous arranged marriage into a romantic affair of the hearts. And how does he do that? By stealing the professor's time machine to travel back in time! To a time when Kishen and Mala were not married...To a time when Kishen's father Rai Bahadur and Mala's mother, Boli Devi were sworn enemies...To a time when his father Kishen was certified nerd, bullied merciless by his father...To a time when his tomboyish mother couldn't stand the sight of his father and took great pleasure in ragging him silly... Bunty has his work cut out for him. He has to transform his father from a wimp into an eligible bachelor and his mother from a tomboy into the epitome of feminine grace. Then he has to attempt an impossible task - make them fall in love with each other. And finally - he has to make his grandparents agree to their love marriage! Because until and unless he does this, his own love story with Tanya will never have a happy ending... (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews (1)
In Om Shanti Om we encountered the strange intimate relationship that contemporary Bollywood has with the 1970s. And now this almost sacred reverence is tied to a likable family romantic comedy. It's as if it's not even an Akshay Kumar film, a man who knows how to go for the truly gross-out humor. Not so in Action Replayy. It wouldn't be a coincidence if it was the influence of Aishwarya Rai that made him cultivate his entire approach to the comedy genre. Indeed, it was in Namastey London that Kumar (then alongside Katrina Kaif) proved that he could be a true romantic hero under Vipul Amrutlal Shah. But only after a proper transformation, of course. :) Action Replayy’s straightforward story offers just that. The plot builds on the transparent desire of each of us to make our parents' relationship ideal. And if there is the possibility of combining this desire with a return to the past, there is no limit to what we can do. The overall style and feel of 1970s India are truly fresh, giving Akshay and Aishwarya the opportunity to literally blossom and rejuvenate. I have to say that Aishwarya was perhaps not this young and natural when she began acting. She's nice and perfect here. The same applies to the number of tasteful allusions to concepts from contemporary Bollywood. Objections about the strong "inspiration" of Back to the Future or The Curious Case of Benjamin Button would be false, but then we would have to go back to H.G. Wells, and even much further. I like all the blockbusters of the varying period, and here they also function as a showcase plot slider, not just as beautiful videos. The only thing that I didn't like was the opening (and closing) track "Zhor Ka Jhatka" with its hard rap, which is something I've never seen in Bollywood before. Young Aditya Roy Kapoor did relatively well as a tour guide, so let's see what roles the future holds for him. There is only one slight screenwriting flaw, which cannot be attributed to him, and that is the very rushed ending. I can imagine a more fleshed-out victory celebration and commentary on the character development of Bunty, our guide.
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