Monday, August 23, 2010

Quick Movie Review: 'Lafangey Parindey'


It’s a predictable drama wherein a very ambitious, wanna-be-skater girl, Pinky, while jaywalking gets tossed by a recklessly-driving guy, Nandu. Pinky goes blind but this huffy and kick-ass girl doesn’t give up on her dreams of being the best skater and getting out of the Mumbai chawl which is full of devil-may-care people. Here, in atonement, Nandu, a one-shot fighter, helps the girl fulfill her dream by instilling hope in her.When insisted by the beauty, he has to learn skating for being her partner for the big competition which funnily yet finally they win and in process, they somehow fall in love.For Pinky, it is a gratitude-turned-love but for this Nandu, it is an undeserving happy accident which now he doesn’t want to lose.When she comes to know about the true colour of her anyways-screwed up-lover who’s messed up her life, she still easily forgives him because it’s a bollywood LOVE-story!

Likes: Utterly graceful roller-skating by a pure delight, Deepika and her saucy lingo; A kid who throws cheeky lines when he shamelessly pulls Neil’s legs and the track: ‘mann lafanga’

Dislikes: Misfit Neil as a Mumbaiyya-tapori which the role demands and clearly visible his labored acting especially while using the street-lingo; Boringly useless entry of the cops for dragging whatever comes till 2 hours! and overly promoted Colors’ ‘India’s got talent’.

My view: Watchable once, but if you are not a die-hard Deepika-fan, then two hours would be an unbearably long journey for this clichéd script.