Movie : Aksar

Aksar: Decent script, hit music, horrendous execution!

The basic plot of Aksar is not all that bad: a millionaire who wants to divorce his ‘hottie’ wife hires a womanizer photographer to seduce her so that she falls in love with the photographer and leaves him. Things go as planned and the photographer successfully beds the millionaire’s wife. However, things go awry when the wife still refuses to divorce the millionaire as she is the 50% owner of his wealth and the photographer smitten by the rich temptress decides to stay on by breaking the deal he had with the millionaire husband. Things reach a point when each of the characters in this queer triangle are playing their wicked games and it is difficult to judge who the ultimate villain is. The climax of the movie packs a suspense revelation which is predictable yet interesting.

Add to this, the super-hit music of Himesh Reshammiya. There are few movies in the recent past having 4-5 songs which are chart-toppers and are being played in every disco and every taxi! The songs are well-interspersed throughout the movie and despite the fact that sometimes they seem to pop out of nowhere, you can pardon the director given their popularity.

Where the movie fails is the most pathetic execution of the script by actors and technicians alike. Sample this: according to me, the 3 best acting performances in Aksar are by the following (in descending order of brilliance):

1) The stress-ball that Dino Morea keeps playing with
2) Victoria Mansion in Manchester, UK (the house where Dino Morea stays)
3) Himesh Reshammiya in the cameo performance in the song Mohabbat Ki…

What about Emraan Hashmi, Dino Morea, Udita Goswami or Tara Sharma (yeah, she also has a short role in the film) – you might ask? Well, they are there but remain so stone-faced throughout the movie that they put the walls of the palatial mansion in which the movie has been shot to shame. Emraan Hashmi may be the serial kisser of Bollywood but he can’t act for nuts. Udita Goswami maybe one of the hottest models in the Indian fashion circuit today but she’s got to realize that a hot bod does not a successful actress make. Otherwise, Pamela Anderson would have had a dozen Academy Awards to her credit! Dino Morea is slightly better than Emraan and Udita but only slightly better.

Anant Mahadevan (the director) fails to captivate the audience and were it not for the songs (which yours truly quite likes), the movie would have probably become intolerable. Watch this one only if someone else is paying and you really don’t have too much to do!


Watchability Rating: 2/5