Movie Review

Miley Naa Miley Hum

What the deuce?!

Miley Naa Miley Hum, the debut movie of Ram Vilas Paswan’s son Chirag Paswan, is a plain, boring and unentertaining B-grade movie, which leaves no impact whatsoever. If you must know, the story goes like this – Chirag’s (Paswan) parents separated because his mother was upset that his father was playing tennis when he was born (huh!). His dad (Kabir Bedi) is a strict disciplinarian, who owns a vineyard, and mom (Poonam Dhillon), an extremely successful businesswoman, is rather carefree. The boy is torn between the two and thus starts leading parallel lives to make both the parents happy. He hides from his well-read mom that he is a tennis champion, and she only finds out when her manager tells her about it, and so she switches on the TV to find out the truth!

Now, to score points with their son and to prove that they’re better than the other, each of the parents finds a prospective girl for their son. To escape from the situation, Chirag hires an aspiring model Anishka (Kangana Ranaut) to bail him out and pays her Rs 20 lakh for 20 days each! And predictably, the two go on to actually fall in love with each other. Now, Chirag has to convince his parents, and also win a tennis match, which takes a lifetime to get over!

Chirag Paswan is expressionless, stiff and tries too hard to act. He lacks the charisma and versatility that most newcomers these days exude. Neeru Bajwa and Sagarika Ghatge are in a blink-and-you-miss role and Kangana Ranaut does nothing to revive the film. If one wants to waste their money, time, and energy, then this movie will help you to do just that and more.

Aakriti Singh

In Time

Time is money, literally

Welcome to a new world. A world of time zones and timekeepers (cops), where the rich can live forever and the punishment for poverty is death. This is the premise of the movie In Time – a futuristic society where the difference between the haves and the have-nots lies in not just the quality of the life they enjoy, but also the quantity.

In Time introduces us to a time where every person stops ageing at 25 and is a given a year more to live. Of course, people are given a right to earn time, the only currency left in circulation. People are divided into different time zones based on the amount of time they have earned for themselves. Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) is a ghetto-dwelling man, who is gifted more than 100 years by a rich businessman tired of life in general. More importantly, he is told the secret of how the system functions. Enraged at the gross injustice of it all, Will vows to set things right. Thus begins a cat and mouse game between the new-age vigilante and the men of power whose interest lies in keeping the system alive.

The movie begins well as a satire on the class differences that exist in our world. Unfortunately though, it soon enters action territory and the execution begins to flounder. The analogy between money and time barely scratches the surface, and lack the depth to force us to take a searching look at the world we now live in. It soon turns into another bank heist plot where time capsules are stolen instead of bundles of notes. The biggest flaw, however, is the cast. The acting is uniformly wooden and it is hard to picture Timberlake as an underdog fighting the system against all odds. A good thought that could have resulted in a much better film, if only the writers had used-up a little more of their time. 

Satya Prasad Movva