By Rediff, April 27, 2007 - 14:23 IST
12 of 16 people found this review helpful Siddharth Anand's Ta Ra Rum Pum plays on every human's ultimate fantasy to conquer against all odds and take home the trophy. Here the trophy stands as a metaphor for the realisation of one's most precious dreams. And that is precisely what makes Ta Ra Rum Pum a universal subject to identify with and feel for.
By Glamsham, April 28, 2007 - 05:03 IST
Saif Ali Khan carries off the film with a maturity that can be associated only with someone who understands cinema. Here is a man who only keeps bettering his last performance...
By Now Running, April 28, 2007 - 05:08 IST
2 of 2 people found this review helpful Ta Ra Rum Pum tops with captivating performances and skillfully blending of emotions. The background music enhances the experience. It's a perfect family entertainer.
By Ibnlive, April 28, 2007 - 05:00 IST
2 of 3 people found this review helpful In director Siddharth Anand's Ta Ra Rum Pum which releases at cinemas this week, New York-based racing-car champion Saif Ali Khan hits a bad spell when he injured in a racing accident that leaves him with the kind of emotional scars that he doesn't quite recover from even a year later when he returns to the racing track...
By Express India, April 28, 2007 - 05:12 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful Overall the film is wonderful from the word 'action'. Different from the usual Bollywood script and clipped off of all the spicy sagas, Ta Ra Rum Pum is a not-to-be-missed venture.
By NDTVMovies, April 30, 2007 - 05:30 IST
This year's first Yash Raj Films product has hit the big screen. The Yash Raj brand has become so daunting that all other producers steer clear of a head-on battle. So there are no other releases this week. All decks have been cleared for Siddharth Anand's Tara Rum Pum.
By Radiosargam, May 4, 2007 - 10:20 IST
if is not lost in the lights of Shah Rukh or Salman or Aamir anymore. The actor is getting better with every performance. Rani Mukherjee enacts her character smoothly and she interprets various emotions successfully. Jaaved is good in a serious role. Victor and Shruti are good. Child artists Angelina Idnani and Ali Haji are adorable.
By Hindustan Times, May 4, 2007 - 10:26 IST
2 of 2 people found this review helpful Anyway, the couple come up with two kids faster than cash from an ATM machine. And then sigh..your hero has a nasty accident on the tracks...
By Indiaglitz, May 4, 2007 - 11:06 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful While first half is quite breezy, thanks again to Jaffri bhai [dialogues like - 'I Love You Brother, son of a different mother' - do keep you in splits], the second half begins on a highly predictable note...
By Bollywood Mantra, May 4, 2007 - 11:26 IST
Overall though the film can be labeled as too glossy in style and picturisation, nonetheless the screenplay, execution and touching emotional substance makes it a fairly good film. It caters to a wide segment of audiences it's a feel good film that gives the audiences a happy feeling after leaving the theater. At the box-office with time it should have a good collection.
By Apunkachoice, May 4, 2007 - 11:29 IST
0 of 1 people found this review helpful Javed Jaffery goes over the top in many scenes. But this is how his character is designed. Child artiste Angelina Idnani is impressive, while Ali Haji is cute but cannot act.
'Tara Rum Pum' has the hallmark of a Yash Raj film. It provides feelgood entertainment for family audiences and children.
By Full Hyderabad, May 4, 2007 - 11:09 IST
Ta Ra Rum Pum is a story about Rajveer Singh (Saif Ali Khan), a young tyre-changer in the pit crew of a sportscar team, and Radhika Banerjee (Rani Mukerji), a college student who is majoring in, wait - music, French, Greek Philosophy, mathematics and logic (phew! - this girl has got brains).
By Indya, May 4, 2007 - 11:31 IST
RV (Saif) graduates from being a pit crew member to an ace car racer in USA's Nascar circuit with friend turned manager Hari's (Jaffrey) help. After a love at first sight and few races later he proposes to Radhika (Rani), gets married and has two children, Champ and Princess.
By Planet Bollywood, May 4, 2007 - 11:34 IST
The acting abilities of Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherjee were underutilized because any director would have had difficulty making sense of the character's motives given the sprawling, ill-conceived material at hand...
By Times Now, May 4, 2007 - 11:36 IST
Saif Ali Khan initially goes through the motions, playing what seems to be an extension of his 'Salaam Namaste' character, but then comes into his own in the second half. As a man down on his luck, who doesn't mind the odd hustling to get by, he is in much better form...
By Times Now, May 4, 2007 - 11:37 IST
Saif Ali Khan initially goes through the motions, playing what seems to be an extension of his 'Salaam Namaste' character, but then comes into his own in the second half. As a man down on his luck, who doesn't mind the odd hustling to get by, he is in much better form...
By MumbaiMirror, April 28, 2007 - 05:06 IST
1 of 1 people found this review helpful Saif is no Schumacher; neither is he quite Russel Crowe. But we may have to go back many years looking for an actor with such original, pleasant, easy-going on-screen persona...
By Businessofcinema, May 4, 2007 - 11:35 IST
TaRa Rum Pum is well paced and tells the story in just the amount of time at just the right pace. The grey area is the lack of depth and uninteresting story line. Nevertheless, the film is well packaged like all other Yash Raj films.
By Mid-Day, May 4, 2007 - 11:39 IST
0 of 1 people found this review helpful The subject of the film may be as dilapidated as Yashraj's ideation team it's only the condiments that make this 'feast' somewhat bearable.
The film begins as a typical love story then attempts to be 'child-friendly' for a while before it finally settles down to be an uninspiring rehash of films like In America and Life Is Beautiful (in the second half).
By Jam Mag, April 28, 2007 - 04:58 IST
2 of 4 people found this review helpful The race sequences are almost a saving grace. The only letdown here is that they ignore the basic laws of physics . Like, when two cars collide they should slow down, or friction reduces speed. The title track is also fun to look at, although irritating to listen to. The teddy bears in a fantasy world sequence is well executed.
By WithoutGivingTheMovieAway, April 28, 2007 - 04:55 IST
2 of 5 people found this review helpful Everything was just about average, acting, direction, screenplay, story, editing (it could very well have been cut short by a good 15-20 minutes). But, while I scoffed every time I was asked to suspend my disbeliefs, the scene was accompanied by a shade of creativity that kept me entertained.
By MTV India, April 28, 2007 - 05:14 IST
3 of 5 people found this review helpful The racing scenes are good for a Hindi movie, but Javed Jaffrey is just to pakau yaar. He hams, and hams and then hams some more.
By Filmfare / Times of India / Indiatimes, May 4, 2007 - 11:03 IST
Be it Saif's live-in-the-present effervescence or Rani's till-death-do-us-part devotion, Ta Ra Rum Pum tangos off to a high simply due to their chemistry. Quite, quite reminiscent of Hum Tum. Of course, the film lacks the originality of Salaam Namastey , where director Siddharth Anand scored with the sheer novelty of the no-holds-barred relationship between Saif and Preity...
By Cybernoon, May 4, 2007 - 11:11 IST
Happy family picture is shattered when RV has an accident and loses his winning streak. Now you can't ask a director bent on heavy duty melodrama, why Radhika who, you are told studies music, Elizabethan poetry, maths and foreign languages, suddenly becomes a dumb housewife, who neglects something as basic as insurance and after her husband has had a horrific accident on the tracks.
By Mag4you, May 4, 2007 - 11:22 IST
Technically, 'Tara Rum Pum' gets eight out of 10. Salim Sulaiman once again does wonderfully well in composing the perfect background music. Binod Pradhan's camera work is awesome. Habib Faisal pens slips in some scenes and lets the film loosen its script...
