Roy – Bollywood movie – My thoughts…

Loved the premise of Roy. Unfortunately, the movie remained just that…a premise…

Movies-Releasing-2015There is a scene in Roy where Ranbir is shown on a boat…and he remains there for the next 30 minutes of screen time. Why? Coz of writer’s block (don’t bother figuring this out, read on). Pretty much sums up the movie itself. Arjun Rampal plays a writer/director who is hardly shown directing, and is supposed to have helmed a successful movie franchise that is called…GUNS. Roy (Ranbir sleepwalking through the title role) is a figment of Arjun’s imagination, based on a master thief who is the news about the same time as Guns III begins shooting (without a script, I suspect pretty much how this movie was shot). Enter Jacqueline Fernandez,  first in reality and then in Arjun’s story (which, incidentally, he types out on a manual typewriter:|) Then on, two stories emerge – Arjun and Jackie in reality, and Ranbir and Jackie in fiction. How they converge forms the rest of the story.

The premise of this movie is intriguing, but the shoddy treatment spoils it beyond redemption. Partly because of this being a debut film, the director is unable to decide if he wants to make a serious movie or a commercial experience. Hence you have dance numbers popping up out of nowhere and one-dimensional characters going nowhere. Jackie plays two half- dimensions actually – as a spectacle clad documentary filmmaker who is never shown filming; only drinking coffee and looking intelligent, and as an heiress/decked up doll who spends time looking rich,  buying paintings and painting some herself. Ranbir does more damage post Besharam, and looks lost most of the time. Arjun spends the first half as a quasi-playboy and the second half looking like he just had tuberculosis.

And the movie is sllloowwww…..I kept checking my watch every 15 minutes and it just wouldn’t end!

Overall, a bad effort.

Another scene in the movie where Ranbir asks Arjun…now what? How will the movie end?…Arjun gives a bored response…I don’t know..and they take a drag from their cigarettes…Thats pretty much how I felt during the whole movie, and not in a good way…