Waqt
: The Race Against Time
Director : Vipul
Amrutlal Shah
Cast : Amitabh
Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Shefali Shah and Priyanka Chopra.
Waqt is unshamedly cheesy and surprisingly moving. It is the
melodrama of the 1980s- L.V. Prasad
cinema
meets Karan Johar by way of Ekta
Kapoor. Which means that characters wear dazzling clothes,
no matter what the occasion and hour; their homes are large
and over-furnished; and everybody, men included, sheds copious
tears.
But Vipul Amrutlal Shah and his
writer Aatish Kapadia are not afraid of bringing out the violins
and yanking at heart-strings. So the film has genuinely touching
scenes and some easy laughs provided by Boman
Irani and Rajpal Yadav. The camaraderie between
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Amitabh
Bachchan,
as the dying patriarch, and Akshay Kumar,
as the spoilt son, holds Waqt together. But the loopholes in
the script are large enough for a car to drive through- for
one, how does the son’s equally spoilt wife, who is used
to living in a bedroom with a heated swimming pool, adjust
so
smilingly to life in an outhouse?
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