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Roadside Romeo (2008) Movie Rating and Review :
Rating :
Voices – 6/10
Direction – 5/10
Script – 3.5/10
Music – 3/10
Animation – 7/10
Review :
Puppy love not peppy enough
Time out! Time out! Thank you Ganesha, thank you Hanuman, thank you Krishna. Enough of cheenti cheenti bang bang! It’s time for the real thing. Time for an Indian animation flick where the characters are not 2-D tooners stuck in the chaddi-pahenkey-phool-khila-hai mode.
That makes Jugal Hansraj’s Roadside Romeo an important film — Bollywood’s first technically un-challenged animation movie before the likes of Karan Johar’s Koochie Koochie Hota Hai and Ajay Devgan’s Toonpur Ka Superhero come calling. If despite the reassuring Walt Disney stamp on the posters, when you see that the animators are Tata Elxsi-VCL, you ask “Are we there yet?”, and the answer is yes!
If nothing else, Roadside Romeo can match up to the Shreks and Nemos just as a visual experience. Every frame has been done up with a lot of love and care and the animation is in-your-face enough to grab your eyeballs.
To give credit to Jugal, an animation movie buff, he gets the tone and language of his characters just right. They may be stray dogs but have all the pizzazz and the panache to win your hearts over.
He makes just one mistake and a big one — Romeo is not the hero of the film! Saif is very good and has just the right dose of goofiness to make you love Romeo and root for him but he is no Scooby-Doo or Garfield. He is just a diehard Yash Raj romantic not quirky enough to be a toonpur ka superhero.
Compared to him, Jaaved Jaaferi’s Charlie Anna is a complete knockout! Created from scratch, with not a precedent to boot, the slimy ear-digging, head-scratching south Indian bull dog is the most original thing about Roadside Romeo. And Jaaferi plays Charlie with such euphoria and elan, replete with everything from hip-hop to Bharatnatyam, that the very ordinary story is brought to life every time he barks into the frame.
Kareena’s Laila has not much to do apart from squinting her badi badi aankhen. But her appearance scene is the most ‘animated’ moment of the movie. She dances on the rooftop and Romeo waltzes his way beside her before they break into a passionate piece of salsa.
The music could have been much better. Salim-Sulaiman do a decent job but for a film that rightly celebrates pop culture — from a DDLJ ending to a Laila tattoo on Romeo’s left hand — the songs could have just been handpicked from the vast Yash Raj library.
Roadside Romeo is a start. Start to Bollywood’s very own animation factory and it’s not a bad party to be a part of.
Voices – 6/10
Direction – 5/10
Script – 3.5/10
Music – 3/10
Animation – 7/10
Review :
Puppy love not peppy enough
Time out! Time out! Thank you Ganesha, thank you Hanuman, thank you Krishna. Enough of cheenti cheenti bang bang! It’s time for the real thing. Time for an Indian animation flick where the characters are not 2-D tooners stuck in the chaddi-pahenkey-phool-khila-hai mode.
That makes Jugal Hansraj’s Roadside Romeo an important film — Bollywood’s first technically un-challenged animation movie before the likes of Karan Johar’s Koochie Koochie Hota Hai and Ajay Devgan’s Toonpur Ka Superhero come calling. If despite the reassuring Walt Disney stamp on the posters, when you see that the animators are Tata Elxsi-VCL, you ask “Are we there yet?”, and the answer is yes!
If nothing else, Roadside Romeo can match up to the Shreks and Nemos just as a visual experience. Every frame has been done up with a lot of love and care and the animation is in-your-face enough to grab your eyeballs.
To give credit to Jugal, an animation movie buff, he gets the tone and language of his characters just right. They may be stray dogs but have all the pizzazz and the panache to win your hearts over.
He makes just one mistake and a big one — Romeo is not the hero of the film! Saif is very good and has just the right dose of goofiness to make you love Romeo and root for him but he is no Scooby-Doo or Garfield. He is just a diehard Yash Raj romantic not quirky enough to be a toonpur ka superhero.
Compared to him, Jaaved Jaaferi’s Charlie Anna is a complete knockout! Created from scratch, with not a precedent to boot, the slimy ear-digging, head-scratching south Indian bull dog is the most original thing about Roadside Romeo. And Jaaferi plays Charlie with such euphoria and elan, replete with everything from hip-hop to Bharatnatyam, that the very ordinary story is brought to life every time he barks into the frame.
Kareena’s Laila has not much to do apart from squinting her badi badi aankhen. But her appearance scene is the most ‘animated’ moment of the movie. She dances on the rooftop and Romeo waltzes his way beside her before they break into a passionate piece of salsa.
The music could have been much better. Salim-Sulaiman do a decent job but for a film that rightly celebrates pop culture — from a DDLJ ending to a Laila tattoo on Romeo’s left hand — the songs could have just been handpicked from the vast Yash Raj library.
Roadside Romeo is a start. Start to Bollywood’s very own animation factory and it’s not a bad party to be a part of.
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