“My name is Vinod, Agent Vinod”, if you thought our desi Bond would introduce himself this way then you are highly mistaken. With the plot set in multiple countries, at times we find ourselves asking, ‘sorry, why are we in this country now?’ And with way too many characters, director Sriram Raghavan expects too much from audience but fails to keep the charm alive! Hard to believe that this is the same person who gave us amazing thrillers like ‘Ek Hasina Thi’ and one of my all time favorites – ‘Johnny Gaddar’. I guess he pushed his imagination too far this time.
Summary: Agent Vinod (RAW agent) is given the charge to defuse the suitcase bomb.
With Bond like style, plot involving mafia dons from across the world, back stabbers, double agent, a bomb – had all the ingredients of an awesome masala movie, but in order to over-impress they completely lost it. Looks like Saif had too much money, did not know where to spend, made this movie with a big budget and included everything that could have been parts of 3 different films!
Talking about how character abuse was done, I mean how so many characters were introduced and disappeared in thin air. As soon I saw Ram Kapoor I could only imagine him romancing Sakshi Tanwar and did not give a convincing don look (they were recently in news for a bold scene in a saas bahu serial), Rajat Kapoor was on the screen for 5 minutes and why the hell was Gulshan Grover introduced? May be the writer wants it to be kept a secret sssshhh and many others…
A set of 10 genuine questions:
1. Is this movie a mix of multiple scenes from various movies, put together as one?
2. With so much advancement in special effects, why does the helicopter look like a toy?
3. How could Kareena talk, think, give out a password, be romantic while having shot twice in her liver? Super human?
4. Among all countries, why did we go to Somalia? Not that I understood the necessity of going to the other countries.
5. Why does Kareena look like she is doing a tv serial and not a movie?
6. A shoot out sequence with a romantic track in the background is cool n all but why were they shooting aimlessly and on whom? Sorry dude, I was lost all the time.
7. Why did Lady Gaga not get any mention when she was playing the piano in this ‘fight with romantic track’ sequence? Not fair.
8. And why the hell was a Srilankan mafia fight sequence mixed up? what’s happening man?
9. Did I go for an examination to solve so many puzzles or for entertainment?
10. I should have watched RACE again instead, no?
Having said all this, Saif was indeed looking stylish and a fewer dialogues were funny (but far too less to lift this movie up) like the ‘aakhri khwaish’ where he asks for chilled beer and juice for Kareena.
All in all, I get a feeling that in the aspiration of trying to make a bond movie they ended up making multiple movies and at the end joined all the shot scenes in one.
I was so very hopeful with Mr. Vinod that I had a blog topic ready – ‘Agent Vinod is the new DON’. Sorry it will never be published.
Agent Vinod will very soon be on TV, with the highly priced tickets I do not recommend you go in a multiplex to catch this one. Watch ‘Ek Hasina Thi’ & ‘Johnny Gaddar’ and you will end up getting more thrill even if you are watching these for the 5th time!
Superb review Adi… But am still gonna catch it at multiplex… Q ke ye dil haike maanta nahi 😉
thank you :):)We went in a group and had load of fun passing comments and enjoying many of the senseless acts! Go enjoy! 🙂
…The trouble with this thought is that the audiences that patronize (in every sense of the word) the multiplexes aren’t really into film lore, leave alone references to an era of hand-painted posters and silver-jubilee runs. (Serve it up as spangly kitsch, everything on the surface, like in The Dirty Picture, and they’ll lap it up.)
– Bharadwaj Rangan.
Good Review Adi….it was so senseless that one was amazed that it came from the director of Johny Gaddar! It was more like a world tour without doing justice to any one country. The only good thing of the movie came at the fag end…..the song 'Pyar ki pungi'….now now I dont mind a jam session to that one!!!!!!!!
Thanks Aditi! yes, jam session is over due now! Aao mil ke pungi bajayen!!