Yuvvraaj Crashes 40%; Salman Khan Finito?
Moviegoers Dump on Yuvvraaj – Box Office Disaster
Stay away from Yuvvraaj. Just keep way from this dungheap of a movie that’s offensive beyond redemption.
Rain Man (1988, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise) is a great Hollywood classic, the winner of four Oscars.
Yuvvraaj is an ugly, pitiful Bollywood copy of Rain Man that offers nothing but dollops of misery to unsuspecting moviegoers.
Dustin Hoffman and, to a lesser extent, Tom Cruise were a joy to behold in Rain Man, a stunning visual treat for moviegoers.
Compared to the Hoffman-Cruise duo, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor and Zayed Khan are pathetic impostors, shameless caricatures of actors.
And completely oblivious to our misery, the Khan-Kapoor-Khan troika under the aegis of mis-director Subhash Ghai unleash a lengthy torture drama on the screen that has few parallels in Bollywood or elsewhere.
A peine forte et dure, this obscenely bad movie sucked the breath out of us. Buffoons, all.
Mercifully, Katrina Kaif does not inflict as much damage in Yuvvraaj as she does in some of her previous outrages like Singh is Kinng.
We have long given up hope of Bollywood making original movies.
But is it that difficult to make a decent movie even after borrowing heavily from a classic like Rain Man.
Rain Man Magic
With his shuffling gait, the head sometime tilted to one side, the I don’t know or I am an excellent driver refrains, remarkable memory and prisoner to routine, Dustin Hoffman was awesome in Rain Man.
Who having seen the movie can ever forget Dustin Hoffman’s magical skills with numbers, the extreme agitation when his routine is disturbed or the slow bonding between the brothers during the long drive from Cincinnati to Los Angeles on the back-roads (remember, Dustin Hoffman’s character is scared of planes and he’s scared of highways because of the high mortality rates on both).
Can you ever forget the scene of an angry Tom Cruise standing in the middle of a deserted road and screaming: What difference does it make where you buy underwear?…Underwear is underwear. And Dustin Hoffman’s character keeps repeating about buying boxers at the Kmart on 400 Oak Street in Cincinnati.
Or the scene when Hoffman gets agitated in the bathroom because hot water is rushing into the tub triggering an old sad memory or the dancing and kissing moment in the casino elevator between Hoffman and Tom Cruise’s girlfriend Valeria Golino.
Ultimately, it’s the unusual greed meets autism story that’s the allure of this fine movie.
Yuvvraaj Nightmare
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