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Vijay 69 movie review: The movie stars Anupam Kher successful the pb role.
Want idiosyncratic to play aged successful the movies? Anupam Kher is your man. He’s got the age, and the mileage. All helium needs are films that mean something, but that seems to beryllium asking excessively overmuch for Bollywood these days.
On paper, ‘Vijay 69’ indispensable person felt similar a splendid idea. Old men dodder. They don’t spell astir being potty-mouthed, oregon making bittersweet enactment jokes. How astir getting Vijay Mathew, a ripe 69, to person a vocabulary which is much foul than fair, adjacent if helium has reached gramps status? Next, however astir mounting him an intolerable task? Even the fittest baulk astatine attempting the triathlon. Why not get our aged leader to person a dash astatine it?
Vijay lives successful a location surrounded by the memories of his dormant wife, the lone 1 who utilized to promote him successful his endeavours, the main of which seems to beryllium getting ranked successful a swimming race. Everyone else, including his dearest person Fali (Chunky Panday donning a grey wig and the broadest Parsi accent that tin beryllium mustered), thinks he’s gone bananas.
A movie similar this comes with deathly predictability. There’s nary mode that Vijay tin fail: helium volition prevail, whether it implicit an unhappy daughter, conniving neighbours, and slimy quality anchors who represent him arsenic an unworthy, out-of-control campaigner for the competition, successful segments meant to make humour but which extremity up being contrived and unfunny. How would you respond if idiosyncratic called you ‘Isabgol ke rasgulle’? Crack up oregon cringe?
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This ensemble could person amounted to something. We tin surely bash with a instrumentality of Chunky Panday, but not erstwhile helium is confined to a caricature. The aforesaid tin beryllium said for each different actor, particularly the severely underutilised Vrajesh Hirjee. Mihir Ahuja gets a sizeable portion here, arsenic a Gen Z rival who crafts a enslaved with the aged man. There’s different young ‘un, a YouTuber with her ain channel, following Vijay around. Her quality is much annoying than cute, and that’s thing you tin accidental astir the movie arsenic a whole.
Kher himself, the crushed wherefore this movie exists, is defeated by the unimaginative story-telling. The past clip erstwhile helium played aged successful a movie which really caught our attraction was Sooraj Barjatya’s ‘Uunchai’ successful which helium reached the Everest Base Camp contempt each obstacles: it was maudlin but made you feel. Not this.
Vijay 69 movie cast: Anupam Kher, Chunky Panday, Mihir Ahuja, Vrajesh Hirjee, Guddi Maruti, Paritosh Sand, Kunal Vijaykar
Vijay 69 movie director: Akshay Roy
Vijay 69 movie rating: 1.5 stars
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