Sajid Nadiadwala: It was in the year 1988 that I met Mr Sajid Nadiadwala for the first and the only time in my life. I had gone to meet one of my friends who was then an aspiring actor and Sajid too had come to meet her. After a brief interaction we decided to drive down from her apartment at Four Bunglows Andheri to Shree Sidhivinayak Temple at Prabhadevi Mumbai. It was a long drive both ways and that gave me a opportunity to get acquainted with Mr Nadiadwala or Sajid Bhai as he was popularly referred to by people around him. Though Sajid is a tall and fairly handsome person with a pleasing personality and he was dressed up in expensive clothes, wearing expensive watch, driving an expensive luxury car and well known person in the film industry even then due to his family background he for some strange reasons failed to impress me. 26 years later he failed to impress me again when I went to see his recent Directorial venture Kick. I am sure many people will think I am senile to say this. A movie that has done a business of 200 crores and I am saying that the Director of such a big box office hit failed to impress me. Maybe views and perspective can differ but I was not impressed at all except for the performances of the great and lovable super star Salman Khan and two very impressive new age actors Randeep Hooda and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. The story line was too ordinary and cliched; the screenplay very poor, action sequences completely unbelievable and boring. Through out the film one was reminded of one movie or another - from Dhoom 2 to Dark Knight the Sajid Nadiadwala directed film just kept moving from one copied sequence to another. So what makes it tick with the audience. What makes it rake in 200 crores. I guess the answer is simple. The magic and charm of one super hero - the charismatic Salman Khan. So while there is a younger crop of directors out there in Bollywood who are enthralling audiences with their very exciting experimental out of the box work, a formula film with a big star cast and star pull can still succeed at the box office in such a big way shows once again that audience for Hindi Cinema has not yet evolved and stars rather than content reigns supreme!!
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 20:20:44 +0000
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