Movie Review: Roy
Roy’s slick poster and the catchy song Sooraj Dooba Hai managed to create a certain curiosity value about
the film. Alas, the film does not live up to either the poster or the song.
The story is about a super-successful director, Kabir Grewal
(Arjun Rampal) embarking on his new film. This is the third of his franchise
involving a thief, Roy (Ranbir Kapoor). Kabir is self-centred, arrogant and has
the reputation of a playboy, with his flings being remembered only as numbers
and not names. With almost no script (he is scripting the film too – and decides
to shoot without either a story or a script) he flies off with his whole crew
to Malayasia where his film is based. There he meets a London-based filmmaker Ayesha
Aamir (Jacqualine Fernandez) and begins to woo her. His love story gets
reflected in Roy’s.
The pace of the film is unhurried at best and sluggish at
worst. None of the characters are gripping or charismatic. The stories (both, Kabir’s
and Roy’s) have no depth.
On the plus sight, the movie is beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful visually. There is no melodrama and no excessive dialogues (there is
no excessive or otherwise story either – but hey, let’s stick to the plus
points here, shall we?). The people are all beautiful, super rich, very
successful and simplistically gullible to each other. It is a lovely, languid
and somewhat lethargic world.
At some point the debutant director (also the writer of the movie)
attempts to layer the film with creating a possibility that Roy is real and
Kabir is basing his movies on a real-life thief. But this possible layer is
quickly lost very early on.
On a vague and far-off note, that this movie could have been
“inspired” by the superb Shakespeare In
Love which credited the genius outpouring from the bard’s pen to his
ecstatic love affair. But even though Roy
tries to say the same story, there is nothing about the direction or pace
that helps the desperately earnest actors in any way. All the actors are competent
spouting seemingly deep lines with sincerity.
A little more work on the story and speed of the movie to
keep pace with the visual extravagance would have been time and money
well-invested. As it is now, Roy seems
destined to sink at the box office. One person in the theatre (evidently bored
out of his mind) made a loud, sarcastic comment at the end of the movie “Kya picture banaya – issko Oscar milega”.
#ShameTheRapists
Disgusting. Five men filmed themselves gang-raping a girl
and posted the video online. The video went viral on WhatApp. The men take
turns at raping the girl. The girls cries and pleas can be heard in the background.
The men have smiles on their faces. Few things can be worse than such a video.
Yet in went viral. Why?
One crusading lady uploaded the video on YouTube with a plea
to give information about the five men and help arrest them.
The video has been removed from YouTube by the YouTube
authorities.
The crusading lady had her vehicle attacked.
This is an appeal to everyone reading to help arrest these
rapists.
More than that, this is an appeal to everyone to actively
stop eve-teasing and molestations.
Get involved. Please.
A group of three men were molesting a thirteen year old on
the streets. The passers-by DID NOT keep quiet. They got involved. Two of the
men ran away. The third went into a gurudwara and came back with two swords. He
started wielding the swords and attacking the crowd. One person was injured.
This was when frantic calls were made to the police. After all this high drama,
all three were arrested.
Stop all perverts immediately and call the police as soon as
possible.
The crackdown against the threat to our society has to
happen with every single individual. It is very well to cluck our tongues and lament
the state of affairs but passive inaction will not change anything.
Safeguarding our women and children is the collective responsibility of every
person.
The fact that women and children are under constant threat
is the most shameful commentary on our society. There is no part of the country
that can boast of having created a safe environment. Children a little as a few
months old are raped. Women in their sixties and above are raped. Much to our
collective humiliation a court actually had the temerity to pass a judgement
that the rape of a post-menopausal woman is not rape. This is amongst the worst
statement ever made. This is a
collective shame on the society we have created and are living in.
These five men who have filmed their heinous act are
actually posing for the camera to make sure that their faces are captured
right. To make sure that their heroic deed is not attributed to someone else.
Please do not let these men escape.
Please do not let the tribe of such men last.
Please take action.
Please stop crime against women.
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