Feb 13, 2009 05:03 PM
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I had a lot of expectations from this movie from being a director who already directed classics like saza-e-kala pani and Viraasat and who knows how to make rural backdrop comedies like Malamaal Weekly...
Hence I had a belied that Billu (x- Billu Barber) would be a good balacne between a fine story telling in a light hearted and commercial way...but hel.. I WAS HIGHLY DISAPPOINTED after watching this flick.... its a complete mess and I can easily call it the weakest movie of Priyan Darshan.
I dont know whats he criteria of Taran Adarsh who bashed and gave only one star to great films like SWADES and praise highly and gives 3.5 stars to such a weird and pathetic film... plz dont beleive on Taran's reviews, they r misleading at a high level.
Billu is a story of a common man Irfan khan who is a barber and lives with his wife and 2 kids in a poor financial condition....Fate changes his life when a superstar (srk) comes into this village and Billu's life become up side down... sounds like an interesting idea but it gets terribly wrong and horrible on screen.
Priyan Darshan tried to make a middle of the road film, but in result made a weird cinematic experience that will make you irritated at the end of the film... the viewer feel cheated as the treatment of the film is so immaturish that it feels like if a 10 year old kid has written and directed the movie, ecpecially the "kar bhala ho bhala" kinda climax
The music is strictly average but songs picturised on 3 hotties were quite good... but it seems repetitive after we already watched recently the cameo of so many big stars in Luck by chance..so srk, deepika, kareena and priyanka's special appearances never gives any excitement to the already bored vewer
Performance wise Irfan Khan is as always in top form...it is his best performance after The Namesake, but will be neglected due to the poor film in general..Lara Dutta was quite good and seems fitted in the de-glam role very well. The screenplay was inconsistent, incoherent and failed BIG time to awake any kind of interest or entertainment in viewer...the over the top act of srk like a God is especially annoying and seems to much exaggerate.
The only thing which was good in this movie (besides Irfan's performance) was the crisp cinematography and the locals looked beautiful onscreen.... but whats the benefit of great cinematography if the script, treatment, screenplay and direction are weak, boring, senseless and irritating.. On the whole Bille is a STRICTLY NO NO movie... better reserve your money for Delhi-6 which seems to be a good movie (atleast from the trailers)
