sunday
– a re-review |
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Starring |
Ajay Devgan,
Ayesha Takia, Arshad Warsi, Irrfan
Khan, Mukesh Tiwari, Anjana Sukhani,
Ali Asgar |
Story |
Robin Bhatt |
Screenplay |
Robin Bhatt,
K Subhash, Tushar Hiranandani |
Dialogue |
Farhad-Sajid |
Art Direction |
Narendra Rahurikar |
Choreography |
Ganesh Acharya |
Editing
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Steven Bernad |
Cinematography |
Aseem Bajaj |
Lyrics |
Farhad, Sajid,
Kamran Bari, Daler Mehndi, Virag Mishra,
Aditya Dhar |
Music |
Sandeep Chowta,
Suroor, Daler Mehndi, Shibani Kashyap,
Raghav Sachar, Amar Mohile |
Produced
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Kumar Mangat |
Directed
by |
Rohit Shetty |
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What if one day went
missing from your life asks Sunday. What
if one movie (yes, Sunday) went missing
from your life, you ask. The answer is…not
a thing. In fact, maybe your life was better off
without watching this moronic film, which is unable
to decide whether it is a comedy or a thriller
and finally ends up as being neither. This is
not to say the two genres cannot be mixed. The
great Vijay Anand
managed this beautifully in Teesri
Manzil (1966), as fine a comic-thriller as
they come.
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screenplay of Sunday is by three people,
each of whom was probably thinking of a different
film as he wrote. The end result sees the film
as just a collage of random scenes thinly connected
to a flimsy and stupid storyline. The plot, for
what its worth, looks at dubbing artiste for cartoon
films, Seher (Ayesha Takia), who has no memories
of the events of a single day (Sunday)
in her life. As her fiancé Rajvir (Ajay
Devgan), a corrupt cop, tries to piece the mystery
together it transpires that maybe Seher is guilty
of murder…
If you take the film as a comedy, barring Arshad
Warsi and Irrfan Khan as the cab driver and struggling
actor respectively, the mostly unfunny film doesn’t
work at all and if a thriller, then the film is
woefully short of thrills. There is no coherence
at all in the film or its narrative flow. Logic
and loopholes and convenient coincidences abound.
OK, Ayesha Takia dubs for cartoon films - but
how is that connected to the plot? How is it that
all the main characters happened to be conveniently
driving around the streets of Delhi that night?
The acting department, as mentioned above, is
largely salvaged only by Arshad Warsi and Irrfan
Khan who rise above the events unfolding on screen
and gamely try and breathe some life into the
film with some fine comic timing and yes, even
the occasional witty banter. Ayesha Takia looks
adequately confused for most of the film as she
has to while Ajay Devgan is starting to be repetitive
now. It’s high time the actor re-invent
himself now. Mukesh Tiwari does manage to raise
a laugh or two as Ajay’s sidekick and fellow
cop but Ali Asgar’s hamming in the climax
has to be seen to be believed!
Technically and musically too, the film is nothing
to write home about.
All in all, avoidable.
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