The Movie Review – Woodstock Villa
June 12, 2008
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Movie Name: Woodstock Villa
Actors: Sikander Kher, Neha Oberoi, Gulshan Grover, Shakti Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Sachin, Khedekar, Boman Irani, Anupama Verma & Saif Ali Khan (Special Appearance)
Director: Hansal Mehta
Producer: Sanjay Gupta and Sanjay Dutt
Music Director: Anu Malik
Writer: S. Farhan, Rajiv Gopalkrishnan, Sanjay Gupta
Lyrics: Aryans, Virag Mishra, Manoj Muntashir
An innovative attempt with a regular story idea is what we can best define “Woodstock Villa” to be. There are many things one may like about the flick in parts, but the whole package falls flat on the audience. Foraying into the thriller genre, Hansal Mehta fails to justify it.
The first thing that you can appreciate about the film is its length, unlike the common pack of Bollywood movies. The movie stretches only up to ninety minutes of duration. The second aspect is the fresh star cast of Woodstock Vila. On one hand, Sikander Kher, son of Anupam and Kirron Kher has made his debut with this film, while on the other, semi-debutante Neha Uberoi (already seen in a small role in “Dus Kahaniyan”) plays the ultra confident lady here. Produced by White Feather Films of Sanjay Gupta fame, Woodstock Villa tries its hand at stylized film making. Hence, you can see rapid-speed editing, minimal dialogues and different variety of camera angles. Anu Malik’s music gives life to the songs. The songs are pretty interesting. People would definitely feel like humming them as well as some of the tracks are weaved into the plot leading the story further. The editing is expertly done keeping in view the modern taste of the viewers.
The tragedy with the film is its weak story line that is not able to create an impact on the audience mind. Sam (Sikandar Kher) is a young playboy who is an absolute prodigal. In fact, he spends more money than he makes. This gets him into faulting on rent payments and in debt to bad men such as Gulshan Grover. He is in dire need of cash. Here, comes Zara Kampani (Neha Uberoi) whom Sam spots at a nightclub and wants to take her to his home.. Together they hatch a master plan. Zara wants Sam to feign her kidnapping and demand a fifty lakh rupee ransom from her husband, Vishal Kampani (Arbaaz Khan). The purpose of testing her husband’s love and Sam’s intention to get easy money both fulfills by their evil plan. A money greedy Sam agrees to the proposal, except that by the time he returns from his skirmish with Vishal, he finds Zara dead. Though this seems to be the turning point in the script, the subject fails to live up to the audiences’ expectation. Thereafter, follows only a few twists, no major turns and a pitiful revelation at the end.
So, go and watch the flick at your own risk. For more information on Woodstock villa, visit www.reviews4movies.wordpress.com
