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Disappointing debut
Indian Babu (HINDI)
Cast: Jaz Pandher, Gurleen Chopra
Mus: Nadeem Shravan
Dir: Lawrence D'Souza
HAIL THE ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa! Thanks to the South African safari and the fine run Indian cricketers are having, all no-hopers in Bollywood have got a chance to, well, nurse a hope, and pray that maybe their films might just do well. Never mind that they would not have kissed the silver screen under normal circumstances. But this being cricket and examination time, all the mothballed films are being retrieved, given a coat of varnish and presented at the box office. Love At Times Square, Escape From Taliban, Valentine Days, Baaz and Dhund have all run their course to empty halls. Now it is the turn of Indian Babu, Jaz Pandher's first shot at stardom.
Well-known director Lawrence D'Souza does his bit in presenting the debutant. There is star-spangled introduction, but the hero is no star material. As Indian Babu, he sings Hindi songs in England and sends many a heart aflutter including one of the heroine, Gurleen Chopra whose heart anyway has a hole in it. She is betrothed to an Indian guy back home and is in the UK for a quick surgery before a quick wedding.
The film has the usual buffoonery by Johnny Lever - a college Principal who left his brains behind when he passed out of school and some passable tunes. But little else to distinguish it from a horde of other films made on similar lines since Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. Cinemagoers can't be blamed if they forget this forgettable debut venture of Pandher and Chopra.
ZIYA US SALAM
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