He takes all the ingredients that Indian film audiences love so much – Punjabi weddings, foreign locations and a really good star cast – and still makes one of the most nonsensical and unfunny films of the year.īahl might have set out to make a quirky, and perhaps an absurdist take on romance, but he simply doesn’t have the skills to pull it off. “Shaandaar” director Vikas Bahl must have the same kind of self-destructive tendency. The moral, old industry hands will tell you, is that you can make a flop with Amitabh Bachchan, but it will take a lot of hard work. The film had none of the ingredients that go into a hit Bachchan movie – no drunken scene or songs, and his voice was dubbed. There is an old, but oft-repeated joke about a Bollywood producer who decided in a fit of misplaced rebellion to make a flop film with Amitabh Bachchan when the actor was at the peak of his career.
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