Fugly Review  

Fugly Review  

Fugly Review  

Fugly Review  

F*UGLY, the name seems unusual and hatke, I kept wondering what it really meant, well the beginning…  

F*UGLY, the name seems unusual and hatke, I kept wondering what it really meant, well the beginning credits clarifies the same; it meant "FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE". The hatke quotient stops in the name itself. So Fugly delves in the latest trend of exploring our Capital Delhi. The story is of 5 friends, Dev (debutant Mohit Marwah), Devi (debutant Kiara Advani), Gaurav (Boxer Vijendra Singh) and Aditya alias Haggu (Arfi Lamba), who lead a chilled and care free life. In one incident wherein Devi is molested by a grocery shop owner and the friends decide to teach him a lesson and kidnap him and en-route they have an accident with a police van and they meet Police Inspector Choutala (Jimmy Shergill). This incident changes their life forever and Choutala starts blackmailing them and how these friends fight against Choutala and the system constitutes the rest of the story. The first problem is the story by Rahul Handa which is Rang De Basanti Meets Fukrey,it hangs between being comedy or a serious issue based movie and does not have the punch. The second problem is with the screenplay which is slow and the sequences look too half baked and without the punch and the transition from flash back to present looks disjointed. The songs have no relevance to the story and look forced. And the biggest is the climax which does not justify the overall narration. The dialogues by director Kabir Sadanand and Rajveer Ahuja ranges from being witty to unintentionally funny. The characters look too monotonous and repeated. Performance wise it needed more punch from the debutants, Mohit Marwah as Dev looks too stiff and needs diction lessons as his dialogues are not clear. Boxer Vijendra Singh sleep walks through his role of Gaurav and is average as the fun loving Jat. Kiara Advani as Devi is crackling and justifies her character well and she shines amongst the other debutants Mohit and Vijendra, watch out for this girl. Arfi Lamba as Aditya becomes quite monotonous after a point and his comedy tracks look forced. Jimmy Shergill as R S Choutala is the bright spot of Fugly, he is just superb and rises above the writing with his brilliant portrayal, another under rated actor of Bollywood. Rest of the cast sleep walk through their portrayal. Another problem is the editing by Shounok Ghosh, it is not crisp and overall flow looks bumpy. Cinematography by Milind Jog is good and captures Delhi  

Direction is very bad. Even the opening frame of film gives a hint that director has some alien…  

Direction is very bad. Even the opening frame of film gives a hint that director has some alien vision. A person sets himself ablaze and walks like he is under shower!!? Might be Director had never burnt his finger with even a match stick. Person is deadly convinced about this step but it can't make him walking like fire is nothing has to do with him. After watching this scene, I was damn sure that I am going to witness another bad film. Story has nothing new, sensible to offer. Screenplay makes thing more idiotic. Dialogues are good at places. Director was so desperate to make a unique film that without justifying anything he stuffed all i.e love track, corrupt policemen, opportunist politician, drug deal, murder, comedy but final outcome is bitter. Pre climax is very slow and I couldn't able to understand the climax. Performance wise all three lead are hardly OK. Kiara Advani as Devi is very good. She emotes well in emotional as well as in dramatic scenes and looks pretty too. Jimmy Shergill as R.S.chautala is impressive. Musically two tracks Fugly fugly and Dhup chik are foot tapping and give the most required relief. Other tracks slows down further the already slow film. 

FUGLY is not the standard Bollywoodish fare that looks at life through rose-tinted glasses. Unlike…  

FUGLY is not the standard Bollywoodish fare that looks at life through rose-tinted glasses. Unlike films of its ilk, which tend to get dark, gory and predictable after a point, Kabir Sadanand smartly uses sub-plots and characters so that the film doesn't steer into the foreseeable zone. In addition, Kabir invests in drama and the emotional bond amongst friends to make the proceedings captivating, but at the same time, makes the road back from hell compelling and lifelike. Although not an inherent flaw, there is another thing which could irritate a section of the youth audience: the film has been promoted as a fun, happy and youthful drama – and this, right from the young feel of the title, in slang English, to the songs to the trailers etc. – but what the film actually is is a very serious issue-based drama. On the whole, Fugly is a disappointing and an ordinary fare with very little entertainment value. It has some chance in the big cities only because of the youthful appeal of its title and music. Its low budget is its biggest plus point. If positive intent were enough to help a youth-centric movie pass muster, then Fugly could, at a stretch, be regarded as passably decent two-and-a-quarter hours of entertainment. But marred by pedestrian and confused execution, the film makes more noise than sense. It is not as if the members of the cast seek to pass off raving and ranting as acting. It is the ear-splitting background score that gets one's goat. Fugly simply can't help it. For film critics, movies like Fugly is nothing less than traumatic. A bunch of haywire newbies find themselves lost in a plot that is ridiculous and lame which kills you by the end. If by God's grace you survive the slang talk and sleaze show, the climax murders you. In a typical Rang De Basanti weds Highway climax done in all seriousness, there is no scope to laugh at it either. It is a plain, flat and bad film that must be avoided under every circumstance. With a clincher of a curtain-raiser, we thought Kabir might just spring a surprise. But alas, it was not to be. He, with the (incompetent) backing from writer Rahul Handa, attempts the impossible: to revive the patriotism that 'Rang De Basanti' (RDB) flourished on through his frames.That none of it makes sense doesn't really bother us, because that's the least of the troubles with Kabir's attempt at a "thriller". The outcome is preposterous. With so much going against it, we'd say; "Don't get fugly-ed". 

Rang De Basanti rehashed and not in a manner that provides any entertainment. Extremely…  

Rang De Basanti rehashed and not in a manner that provides any entertainment. Extremely disappointing F*UGLY https://kartikr.blogspot.in/2014/06/fugly.html 

Average Movie. very disappointing, wouldn't be my first choice.  

Average Movie. very disappointing, wouldn't be my first choice.