MAIN HOON NA
Masala Mix
Devesh Sharma
Cast and Credits
Producer
Gauri Khan
Director
Farah Khan
Music
Anu Malik
Cast
Shah Rukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Zayed Khan, Amrita Arora, Suniel Shetty
ike Farah Khan promised, her directorial debut has everything for everybody. For the action fan, it has slow-motion Matrix-styled stunts, for skin-show addicts, it has the gorgeous Sushmita Sen making love to a waterfall in micro-briefs, for comedy buffs, Boman Irani in a Groucho Marx get-up, for melodrama geeks it has tears aplenty, and for SRK fans, it has got the King Khan strutting his stuff in every frame. Love it or lump it, Main Hoon Na is the fattest, flashiest, over-the-top dance-drama-comedy routine to hit the silver screen in recent memory.
Farah Khan hasn’t forgotten her dancing shoes after wielding the megaphone, and delights you with a kinky mix of 30’s musical style set-pieces peppered with tunes and situtaions straight out of a Nasir Hussain film. Each song is choreographed in a differnt style. While ‘Tumse milke dil ka... is both a disco and a qawwali fused into one, ‘Gori gori...’ resonates of the ‘Twist’ era songs like ‘Aaj kal tere mere pyar ke charche...,’ the title track gives the film an emotional impetus, while ‘Chale jaise hawayein...’ serves as a good introductory song for Zayed and Amrita.
She also reserves ample screen time for everybody, be it the blooming actor Zayed, the effervescent Sushmita Sen, the menacing Suniel Shetty or stalwarts Naseeruddin Shah and Kirron Kher. However, the cream of the cake is left for Shah Rukh Khan to enjoy. He is everywhere and does everything, be it comedy, action and drama, with apalomb. It speaks of his maturity as an actor that during the breakdown scene with Zayed, he doesn’t speak even once but conveys his angst, his pain, only through his eyes.
The film is low on the credibility factor and at one level can be read a spoofed tribute to everybody and everything that inspired Farah Khan. The hard-hearted should take note of the imaginatively compiled end credits. Now, with this mother of all fan films behind her, she would surely graduate to seriously tackling her craft in future. Amen to that.
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Screen I find pretty CREDIBLE though!