Joker: Criminally Insane

Shirish Kunder’s Joker can serve as a fine example for anyone who wants to know what can happen if lots of money falls into wrong hands. To say that this film is so bad and so wrong on so many levels is to put it rather mildly. The assault on the senses grows its intensity with each passing moment and it’s a terrible time to be in the theatre for the 100 minutes of its duration.

To explain how ridiculous this film is, you just have to sample this: Aliens test humans for two years and after confirming that humans are indeed “Achche Log”, they respond to the communication. And to top that all of this is mouthed in pale dialogue. Shirish Kunder for all he knows might just be in the wrong profession and it is never too late to realize that. He makes for the classic case of a fish trying to climb a tree and failing forever.

If you find a 100 plot holes in the film that is only because you have given up after 100. There is no real writing to speak of; just a collage of illogical sequences put together with utter disregard for sense. Practically everyone of the cast try so hard that it is very obvious and ham their way through their scenes. Even Akshay Kumar, who is a dependable actor otherwise, appears clueless and uninterested. However Shreyas Talpade gets the most raw deal of them all. He has to blabber inane sounding gibberish in an incomprehensible language through out the film and at the end we are told it is the language of the aliens. The shit these guys can come up with.

The production design has some scope to impress but they chose to make it equally weird and bizarre in order to be in line with the rest of the film. And Bollywood’s obsession to translate English to Hindi or vice versa to make it funny is also being overdone but that can also be lack of inspiration or running out of ideas. Chitrangada’s item number is terrible and so are all the other songs. With no spirited performances or any intelligence in the plot, this is an ordeal to sit through and hopefully it gets reflected in the numbers that it generates, or else we might have to see more of such garbage or god forbid even a sequel.

There are bigger wonders than this film being made and released and you are better off exploring them unless you are very keen to see what happens if 40 Crores of Rupees chose to conspire with stupidity.