Well one first look at Ugly aur Pagli & u expect this movie to be a rocking romantic comedy right on the lines of Pyar Ke Side effects , after all the combination are pretty much the same –1. Mallika Sherawat as the lead 2., a brilliant actor opposite her in PKSE it was Rahul Bose , here it is the brilliant Ranvir Shorey 3. A new Director 4. PNC as the producer . So Obviously I expected a laugh riot as I went into the theatre but what I got instead was completely .
Fifteen minutes into the movie I had a sense of déjà vu as if I had seen the entire movie somewhere , as if I knew what was going to happen next or how was it going to end . how did I do it ? did I get some supernatural power while watching the movie , no yaar . as the movie progressed it started to remind me about a movie I had seen in my local cable network . each & every frame reminded me about that wonderful Korean romantic comedy & the climax proved my fears as true this movie is a frame by frame copy of – MY SASSY Girl .
A wonderful comedy about this mysterious drunkard woman & a dumb guy who falls in love with this girl who slaps him at any given time & asks him to do things that cannot be termed as normal . the twist in this comedy comes when the mystery behnd the girl is revealed which forms the emotional chord of the movie . Ugly & pagli story is exactly like that , not even that the presentation is no different from the original with many scenes frame by frame ripped from the movie .
So whats the difference , how does it matter many movies are copied like Partner which was a frame by frame copy of Hitch , how does it matter . well it does matter if the copy is not as good as the original . whereas the original was a beautiful comedy which lingers on superb situation instead of slapstick comedy & has a coherent emotional chord to it so much so that even though u don’t know the language ur heart still is sad for the couple . this one on the other hand is not able to reciprocate that feeling as most of the humour is forced or slapstick & the emotional part just does not work .
A part of the blame apart from the director as to go to Mallika Sherawat who is not able to give us the same tragic emotional chord that the Korean Actress emotes In the original through her eyes . Mallika is brilliant in the comic portions But still has a long way to go in the emotional scenes . the use of Mumbai as locale too has not been utilized asv korea was done in the original . the beauty of that place was so well captured in te movie that it looked like a fantasy almost . this is nothe case with UGLY PAGLY . the use of the boys parents in the original was brilliant they came out as full blown characters in limited screen time . In sharp contrast the parents remain caricatures & are hardly explored in the movie .
Khot as a director & writer fails too a great extent . but what saves the movie is the brilliance of ranvir Shorey as an actor . though he is not comfortable in dancing his acting more than makes up for it . he plays dumb aswell as anybody can .Susmita Mukherjee in a cameo is brilliant . yes there are some well written one- liners that are also good & make u laugh in the first half . apart from that a few funny scenes makes it an average first half but the second half is a complete disappointment .in fact in one scene the director justifie his copying when one character playing a director says nothing is orignal .
Songs are bad expect Talli & keep pooping as a roadblock in the narrative . cinematography is mechanical .
In the end my request to the director is that if u do copy a movie make sure that u warn the audience from before so that they don’t feel cheated as I did .
