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dangermousieI went to see Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic yesterday. It's a Bollywood movie in which God sends a 'fairy' (played by Rani Mukherji) to be a Nanny to four kids which have been adopted by a wealthy industrialist Saif Ali Khan. SAK did not want the kids: he accidentally killed their parents in a car accident and the court forced him to take care of them.
So?
I can hardly complain that I was bored for two-and-a-half hours (I wasn't) or that it was a bad movie of its kind. However, it wasn't really my kind of movie at all.
1. I am not someone who thinks a kid in a story ruins it. But I am not someone who likes children's movies (or books) either, nor am I fond of children-centric stories. This was very much a kid's movie. I would have liked it a lot better if it had more of Rani and Saif (or Rani/Saif) and a lot less of the children and children-centric scenes. These kids weren't as awful as the usual Bolly children actors, but that sort of thing is just not my thing.
2. I think I went into sugar-shock I have yet to emerge from. This was so saccharine, it had to have a warning label on it! Of course, once again, what else can you expect from a story of four orphans and a fairy from heaven, so this movie was hardly mislabeled. But while I don't need every movie I like to be either an angst-fest or a grim drama, unadulterated sentimental sweetness for two-and-a-half hours gets a bit much. But then I am the person who thought Hum Aapke Hain Kaun was insufferable for that very reason.
All my other problems with the movie (lack of emotional realism in kids deciding they like Saif so easily and quickly or lack of build-up for a love story) really stem from the above two problems.
So, yes, not really my thing, but provided you enjoy children's movies and don't mind a very sweet concoction, this might be a movie for you.
But still...I know it can't be Omkara or Black, but I wished this was another Hum Tum.
So?
I can hardly complain that I was bored for two-and-a-half hours (I wasn't) or that it was a bad movie of its kind. However, it wasn't really my kind of movie at all.
1. I am not someone who thinks a kid in a story ruins it. But I am not someone who likes children's movies (or books) either, nor am I fond of children-centric stories. This was very much a kid's movie. I would have liked it a lot better if it had more of Rani and Saif (or Rani/Saif) and a lot less of the children and children-centric scenes. These kids weren't as awful as the usual Bolly children actors, but that sort of thing is just not my thing.
2. I think I went into sugar-shock I have yet to emerge from. This was so saccharine, it had to have a warning label on it! Of course, once again, what else can you expect from a story of four orphans and a fairy from heaven, so this movie was hardly mislabeled. But while I don't need every movie I like to be either an angst-fest or a grim drama, unadulterated sentimental sweetness for two-and-a-half hours gets a bit much. But then I am the person who thought Hum Aapke Hain Kaun was insufferable for that very reason.
All my other problems with the movie (lack of emotional realism in kids deciding they like Saif so easily and quickly or lack of build-up for a love story) really stem from the above two problems.
So, yes, not really my thing, but provided you enjoy children's movies and don't mind a very sweet concoction, this might be a movie for you.
But still...I know it can't be Omkara or Black, but I wished this was another Hum Tum.
