EMI movie rating and review

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EMI (2008) Movie Rating and Review :

Rating :

Acting – 6/10
Direction – 4/10
Screenplay – 4/10
Music – 4/10
Technique – 5/10

Review :

Loan groan

A street-smart, smooth-talking waster who takes a second credit card to pay off the debts of the first, and a third to pay off the debts of the second. A hapless father who takes a loan to finance his son’s studies abroad. A just-married couple who incur a huge debt trying to set up home and whose fancy foreign honeymoon is also courtesy a bank loan. A widow who takes a loan to pay off a goon so that she can pass off her (loan- ridden) husband’s suicide as murder, enabling her to claim the insurance money. A recovery agent-cum-don who is entrusted with the job of hounding these defaulters to pay up….

All this should have made EMI an interesting watch. But at the end of a never-ending 150 minutes, EMI turns out to be just another Bollywood masala film. And a bland one at that.

Despite its topical and universal theme — debt trap, mounting EMIs, defaulting loan payments, abusive recovery agents — EMI doesn’t turn out to be a slice-of-life watch. There sure are the “Hey, that’s me-my neighbour-my friend” moments, but for a film that should have mirrored the trials and tribulations, the fluctuating fortunes and the dashed hopes of people whose entire lives are built on debt, EMI doesn’t live up to its name.

After taking too long to establish the “neck-deep-in-debt” status of its characters, EMI goes off-track post interval. Degenerating into a rom-com between recovery agent Sattar Bhai (Sanjay Dutt) and the widow in distress (Urmila), director Saurabh Kabra conveniently forgets all about the loan groan, making the two halves of EMI seem like two different films.

The sketchy script is further let down by half-baked characters like Arjun Rampal’s DJ who dresses like Johnny Depp and just says ‘Yo man!’ and Malaika Arora Khan who does her regular two songs and one dialogue. Urmila is saddled with the weakest character in the film.

If there is one reason why EMI deserves a dekko, it is Sanjay Dutt. His banter with the gang of goons gives the film its best moments. Chirantan Bhatt’s music is passable while editor Anand Subaya should have been more active with his scissors.

Pssst : EMI has the same coffee mug in four different homes and the same lamp on the tables of three different offices. Producers Suniel Shetty and Ekta Kapoor, loan kum pad gaya tha kya?

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