Film Impressions

REVIEW: Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai

ALIEN MOVIES RULE

I love alien movies. Aliens land on earth, they whisk away unsuspecting earthlings and probe them, they eat earthlings, they want to colonize us, assimilate us, leave babies inside us. They are gorgeous (remember Species?) What an awesome scene when she tries on bras?), they are ugly (Cockroach like alien in Men In Black), they are scary even (the alien from Alien is the scariest ever). They are hilarious (in Mars Attacks and in Scary Movie 3) as well. What they are not, is boring. Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai is so boring, only people who need to snooze in the air conditioned comfort of a theater should buy tickets.

REVIEW: Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai

KYON AAYI HAI?

Hindi films are usually quite verbose, but this one goes a step ahead— it tells and then shows.  Like, if a character says that ever since he was born, girls turned away from him, there is a shot of three babies in a crib and two of them turning away… the shot holds for sometime.  You get the point, but director Milap Zaveri shows the boy being rejected by girls in school and then teenagers too.

REVIEW: Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai

ATTACK OF THE ALIEN

A friend once famously said that reviewing bad films was still better than doing a routine bank job. Slipshod fare like Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai make you question the veracity of this statement. Milap Milan Zaveri's directorial debut (he's advertised as the writer of Jhankaar Beats, Masti and Heyy Babyy!) picks out the worst clichés of recent Hindi cinema and supplements them with terrible acting, atrocious gags and comically over-wrought emotions. The most engaging moment in the film is a one-minute cameo by Akshay Kumar where he hams to death and still comes out looking better than the film's hero, Riteish Deshmukh.