Road Movie: Well……..what the hell!!!

A couple of months ago, I happened to watch the trailer of this movie. It seemed pretty much an offbeat, Abhay Deol kinda movie…I seriously admired the first look of the movie…Plus I have always been able to appreciate the work this guys has done. He had never let me down with his story and script choosing ability. So with the existing impression about the film and its crew, I got along with a bunch of enthusiastic friends who were more or less on the same page about the movie as me. After all lazy lamhe of this boring Sunday, we finally moved our backs to the theatre…

The movie belongs to “Road Movie” genre, a bildungsroman, where the protagonist travels all the way to some destination and witnesses the whole new changes, growth or improvements in his character over the course of the story...

The movie starts with a supposedly hip looking guy named Vishnu, wearing aviators, listening music on a rooftop of an ancient looking city of Rajasthan ( I instantly imagined the real Lord Vishnu in the same getup in his constituency…LOL ), and his daddy calling for him to get him smell the “Tel”(Oil) and sell it calling it his future..Phew, how typical this dad is…!!

Naturally, the dude has no interest to be a “tel-salesman” having aviators and ipod ;-) and is looking for a different carrier opportunity for himself. Suddenly, he hits on an old chap to deliver the Oil bottles. This old fellow definitely misbelieve that the oil keeps his “budhhapa” away from him…Man, how long you can expect some creepy oil massage can keep you “young” in all aspects… This Buddha was gonna drive a 1942 model truck filled with probably even older machineries used to show motion pictures of the time of “Alam Ara”, to some goddamn place which is insanely far!!! Anyways, the dude Vishnu, offers him to drive the jumbo just to pass his time and escape from the “tel” business…and he gets the deal…YaaaaY..!! Here the daddy cool, assigns him last moment tasks which is to sell some cartons of tel-bottles during his journey…Aaww mann, he was so similar to your typical managers who don’t leave your ass till the last fraction of moment when you are about to leave for a break…

So here starts the journey, ohh and it halts so soon on a dhaba in the middle of the desert where the dude is proved to be a driver by a witty little worker, who wants to escape and switch to another job (May be because of recession, no hike, no girls around, or may be fed up of a long distance relationship or whatsoever…) So the little guy gets along with “truck driver” on his journey…

Oops, the internals of the big mean machine gave up somewhere where even Google maps can’t reach, and here is our dude trying to catch up with some freaking Indian cellular service provider’s network…No big deal for the little Johny, who gets onto a donkey ride and seemed to escape…But no, the dude gets lucky and the little comes back with a mechanic, portrayed by Satish Kaushik, a well known actor-director, but definitely not suited for the character he was given. This mechanic signed a MoU with chhotu that he would get the lift to the hypothetical Mela (Fair) if he gets the jumbo well…
A. Where on the earth, you can catch a freelancer mechanic in a desert?
B. Couldn’t he demand for something better than that?

So naturally he does his part and adds himself to the team…The “jumbo going ill, mechanic gets him well", scene repeats for no reason. Little Johny and mechanic steals the dude’s “Maa ke hath ka khana” while he is asleep. Dude gets his “Dimaag kharab” on the two, leaves them behind and escapes…but his jumbo loves the mechanic way too much, and the fat mechanic catches up with him again too fast…I had no clue how quickly this fat guy could catch the truck with the dude...Probably he might have used GPS…But oops, I doubted that…!!!

After some time I kinda got my consciousness back (which of course means I was bound to lose my control over my consciousness and got half-asleep) and found there is one newbie gal too in their truck who is an individual water-seeker (usually they go in a group) Finally the team reaches to the Fair’s place where you would expect ……ummmmm… nothing!!! Seriously this place is having nothing but the infinite white sand meeting with the sky at horizon….Damn you, mechanic guy…!!!

Anyways it’s a romantic place for our dude!!! And here our hero goes romantic in the dream with the village chick under the truck’s body, between the front and rear wheel. Could you have ever imagined such a romantic place!!! The fatty guy does not lose the hope and decides to show the movie there and make the place a Fair, which happens to be reality in the dude’s dream. Wait a second, what the hell is going on here…??? Dude, you have an affair in your dream, does not mean that everybody gets to have a Fair where you dream…

Now let’s come to reality, the babe seemed to be getting pretty much cozy with the hero after his dream (I have no clue about the connection between the reality and dream). Probably she forgets that you should not involve in such activities while one is driving, otherwise you might accidently hit to something like...ummmm…ohhh sorry here you have nothing to hit on…so carry on guys…

Now a twist with a twister comes up and the crew gets caught by a bunch of so called “Daakus”, supposedly water mafia of thirsty Rajasthan. The Sardar proves by contradiction that he runs his company better than the MNCs who label the rain water with their names and fools the public…He kinda kidnaps the crew (as if he could get a big ransom for this team…khee khee khee) And oh boy, here comes the biggest hit of the millennium. Guess what our dude could argue when the gunda tries to misbehave his gal??? Here it is, “Hey you, you think you are a Mard, misbehaving with a weaker woman, no my friend you are wrong. Let me tell you how you can become that…”, He runs to his truck gets the Tel bottles, and here it is…Daaku gets a Tel Champi(Oil head massage) by his co-worker…Think how would you feel when your manager would ask you to this kind of favor or service, definitely a human right violation case…Wow this daaku guy is more than happy to see himself in the water with his hair oiled and combed… But our dude is so clever and brave…He won’t let the Sardar and his team becomes “Mard” for free. So he puts a deal to get the lots of water in place of a bunch of Oil bottles. And guess what, he get the deal approved…Shame on you, you hopeless, coward daaku guy…

So the team is relaxed and our kind hero donates the whole water to the Team-WaterSeeker and gets a kiss from his lady love for this…what a mastermind, nai??? Everybody leaves him hereon to carry on…Guy gets to reach the destination, delivers the theatrical truck and gets a bike for his journey back home…And I am done…phew…

I mean, I was looking for any damn thing which I could consider logical throughout the movie. But boy, I failed. Acting wise, everybody did their part decently but there had to be SOME scope of acting ;-) The only thing nice about the movie was its length. Just 90 mins of crap and you are out of the shit saying, “Ohhhh Myyyyy Goddddd!!!”