#2States : This is one of the Chetan Bhagat’s book that
was screaming from the roof top at the top of its voice to be made into a
bollywood film since the day the book was launched . Remember reading it on a
lovely October morning way back in 2009 and visualizing how the story will unfold
once it is converted into a screen play. However 2states, the movie, even
though stays true to the book, only managed to invoke yawn, since it failed to
explore the required subtlety to transform a popular fiction into a screen
play. However it did manage to raise my eye brow (no not because of the Yawn).
Want to find out the 10 reasons…read on
1 1. Want to get a berth in IIM-A, better be bespectacled.
(In a class room scene where six students are sitting it a row , 5 of them, Arjun
included, are wearing spectacle; so much for being subtle)
2. Want to make out with your girl friend, no place
better than the country’s top B- School , two years of fun and you end up
getting a cushy job.
3.You need to be all decked up & look gorgeous
even when you are enacting a scene where you are in your hostel room.
4. In a campus interview, to a question, why you
want to join the company, you can just answer your company is the best and walk
away with the job. Ah , hold on, in fact you can gate crash into an interview
room , in the midst of an interview , propose your girl friend , and lo &
behold, she too gets the job.
5. Ah the movie was all about cross – cultural marriage.
Dei, you expect some Madras-Punjabi humor to lighten up the mood. No it’s a
sterile territory.
6. Alia Bhat can compete in Guiness Book of world
records for the maximum use of facial muscles in the first seventy minutes in any
bollywood movie. She tries hard to imitate Kareena Kapoor till realization dawns on her post
interval, when she goes back to her own self and gives a pretty good
performance. She is the only saving grace.
7. When Ronit Roy asked the director to brief him
about the role , Abhishek Varman’s reply was “remember Udaan”. Wish instead of
asking Roy to act again, if they would have just taken the cuts from Udaan.
8. The director forgot to say Cut and the editor is
a staunch believer that a bollywood movie has to be of two and half hours. Brace
yourself and pray for the couple to get married quickly so that you can walk
out!
9. Most film critic’s views depend on who the
director/producer of the movie is. And boy they are good at interplay of words!
10. In spite of being an average movie, KJo, Sajid
Nadiawala & CB will laugh their way to the bank & this time the joke is
on the audience!
How I wish someone would have whispered “Humor” to the
director and “Hold On” to Chetan !
