Sunday movie rating and review

Sunday (2008) Movie Rating and Review :

Only for Irrfan

An in-form Irrfan, right at the top of his game – that alone is what the audience takes back from Sunday. Together with a top-notch Arshad Warsi and armed with the best lines in the film, Irrfan’s Kumar in Sunday takes over from where his Monty left off in Life in a…Metro. As Ravana in a red dhoti, as Shah Rukh Don III Khan, as Dracula (he plays the lead role in the film Chamgaadar aur Chudail) and as a bare-chested Himesh Reshammiya who goes Tanhai iiiiiiyaaaaa at the drop of a cap, it’s only Irrfan’s outright comic act that makes the dreary experience of trudging through a rainy R-Day-eve morning a tad worthwhile.

But one character and a few laughs do not a film make and rest of Sunday is a drag. Much like a nail driven, slowly and gently, into one’s head. Dubbing artiste Ayesha Takia (right girl, wrong film) goes into a tizzy when she fails to account for a Sunday that has gone “missing” from her life. Things come to a head when it is revealed that a murder was committed that same night and Ayesha is the prime suspect. Enter Ajay Devgan (totally miscast as an ice-cream loving corrupt cop) who falls in love with the heroine and also attempts to solve the ‘mystery’, though not necessarily in that order. What eventually emerges out of Sunday is a hackneyed plot with too many thrilling moments to boast of.

Sunday employs the same comedy-meets-thriller premise that worked for director Rohit Shetty in Golmaal, but this time around he is way off the mark. Although the title track does manage to make an impression, Sunday’s music is a classic case of too many cooks spoiling the broth, what with six music directors in the box. Shot in Delhi, Sunday proves to be more of guided tour of the capital with India Gate and Red Fort as pop picks. The last nail? An ’item number’ by Tusshar Kapoor.

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