Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Boman Irani, ABhishek Bachchan, Deepika
Padukone, Vivaan shah, Jackie Shroff, Sonu Sood.
Director: Farah Khan
Length: 3hrs
In today’s date, when most films feel dragged and overdone
if it goes above two and half hours, it must have been quite a task to believe
that this film will engross the audience for three hours. Well, the director
ensured that she won’t really let the film to slow down which shows in the
screenplay. There are long emotional scenes at places but the director peppers
up the film by immediately adding some fast-paced scenes after those emotional
scenes. Thankfully, neither emotional scenes drown nor does the comedy falls
flat. But yes the comedy is slapstick and pronounced may not bring the house
down each time.
The film starts with a bang. The swaggering entry for the
lead hero of the film boosts up the energy. Although its just a “entry scene”
and nothing more, but one does enjoy it especially when Shahrukh refers to his
own films by using the dialogues and tweaking them. But the film lags only
initially when one after other character is developed. The introduction parts
of all the other guys in the film takes too much time and it doesn’t help that
the film has already spent 40 minutes without really having kick-started with
the original theme of the film. One enjoys the bits of comedy like the whole
part where these boys try to learn foreign dances or even the famous Chak De
India dialogue that our female protagonist gives a funny angle to. So far so
good.
The second half of the film is one of the longest second
halves ever going for around 100 minutes but Farah manages to engage with a
tight screenplay especially during the heist scene, which is spoon-fed a lot,
but done humorously. Take this- during the intense heist scene, after a small
victory, SRK revelling in glory asks Boman “Will you marry me?” Such bits and
spurts of comical angle and some over the top, yet thoroughly enjoyable
patriotism makes HAPPY NEW YEAR a roller coaster ride.
The film captures Dubai in beautiful ways. The screen was
filled with colors and grandeur. Look at the bar dance song “Lovely” which
looks royal, thanks to crores of money spent on sets and costumes. The music of
the film nicely mixes up with the theme and Khan’s choreography is laudable.
The dialogues are mostly usual, but the ones borrowed from SrK’s earlier films
makes maximum impact.
Shahrukh Khan manages to hold up the show. He pulls off the
emotional scenes with panache, which is rare now days from this actor. Deepika
Padukone manages to do some good comedy in a restricted role. Abhishek Bachchan
has good amount of energy and he carries the over the top comedy to the
perfection. Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah hardly gets any major scene to display
their potential. Boman Irani is endearing once again in a very sweet role.
The film in the end, turns out to be a overwhelming surprise
and if the film is seen for what it is, then you’ll come out on a satisfying
note. The exotic locales, terrific scenes, some manifested patriotism
especially in the “Satakli” song which is one of the highpoints of the film and
nice blend of comedy and drama turns HAPPY NEW YEAR into a wholesome
entertainment. It entertains and how!
Rating – 3.5/5
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