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Movie Review: Game (2011)

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The murder mystery genre is a well-established one — so much so that audiences have internalized the genre’s rules, whether consciously or not. Game breaks a number of rules that the genre demands must be followed, ruining what is otherwise a great-looking and well-acted movie.

Game starts with a promising contrivance. Billionaire Kabir Malhotra (Anupam Kher) summons four people to his private Greek island right at the moment they are most in need of rescue. Tisha (Shahana Goswami) is caught driving drunk, O.P. (Boman Irani) is about to lose his political career, Neil (Abhishek Bachchan) is on the run from Colombian drug dealers, and Vikram (Jimmy Shergill) has a suitcase with a dead body stuffed inside.

Malhotra’s generous offer isn’t quite what it seems. He holds the three men responsible for the untimely death of a daughter he never knew he had. And Tisha is his dead daughter Maya’s fraternal twin sister. Malhotra has enough dirt on the men to ruin their lives, dirt which he plans to turn over to international authorities in the morning.

The circumstances of Maya’s death are divulged within the first 30 minutes of a 135 minute movie, so that’s clearly not the movie’s real mystery. Instead of moving the story forward from that point, the plot is interrupted by Neil flashing back to Maya (Sarah-Jane Dias) performing a burlesque dance number, ruining the flow of the film.

At the fifty minute mark, the true mystery is finally revealed. Malhotra dies alone in his office — presumably by his own hand — and all of his evidence on the men is destroyed. The international authorities arrive, but lead inspector Sia (Kangana Ranaut) is forced to let the four invitees go home. Her primary suspect, for no apparent reason, is Neil, and she begins trailing him to uncover his guilt.

There’s a lot to like about Game . Bachchan and Ranaut are compelling leads, and veterans Kher and Irani deliver as always. Goswami and Shergill make the most of their supporting roles. The movie is beautifully shot in gorgeous locations in India, Turkey, Thailand, England and Greece. There are a few great action sequences and one painful jogging chase scene that ends when the pursuers succumb to sprained ankles and side cramps.

But the film’s plot has some issues that are too large to be glossed over. To paraphrase a familiar axiom about mysteries, the outcome must, in retrospect, feel unpredictable but inevitable. There’s nothing about the ultimate outcome of Game that is any way inevitable, despite a few half-hearted attempts at retroactive continuity.

The introduction of new major characters, illogical plot twists, and ludicrous revelations dominate the last 30 minutes of the movie. Plot twists can’t exist independently for the sake of shock value alone; they must exist in service of the larger story (or else they’d just be called “twists”).

The filmmakers didn’t understand that, after a good mystery, the audience should leave saying,  “I can’t believe I didn’t see that coming.” Instead, Game ‘s audiences will exit theaters wondering, “Where the hell did that come from?”

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Review: Game

By GQ Staff

Abhishek Bachchan ends the dry spell in theatres with a Hollywood style whodunnit, but fails to end his own, says Megha Shah

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Anupam Kher Kangana Ranaut, Boman Irani, Jimmy Shergill, Shahana Goswami, Sarah Jane Dias Rating: 2/5

In Bollywood, films with a single English word for a title (Luck, Race and now Game) you know will be (attempted) slick Hollywood style thrillers peppered with well coiffured characters each adept at some or the other James Bondery.

Billionaire Kabir Malhotra (Kher) owns an entire island in Greece and lives with sexy secretary (Gauhar Khan). Yet he is not a happy man. Why? Because he wants to avenge the death of his daughter, Maya (Dias) who was forced into prostitution and drugs and the other usual sort of twists of fate that befall, sweet girls with hapless innocence.

Four individuals (Bachchan, Shergill, Goswami and Irani) living in different parts of the world - to facilitate shooting exotic locales, where much of the focus lies - at the same time one night, receive a mysterious invitation from the baron. On reaching the island, he is killed in what seems to be the perfect murder. Enter Ranaut, Chief investigative officer who will change the game for everyone.

This one’s a good Bollywood example of a bad Hollywood film. An old fashioned murder-mystery borrowing from the Agatha Christie bestseller And Then There Were None with an admittedly gripping first half, eye-watering imageryand a plot that has enough intrigue going for it to sustain two and a half hours.

Yet somehow this film, backed by the likes of Farhan Akhtar (dialogues), Javed Akhtar (lyrics) and Shankar Ehsaan Loy (music) manages to blunder it all up thanks to a lack-lustre script (Althea Delmas Kaushal) which wants tightness or wow-worthy twists and turns, making it a bumpy, exasperating ride on a road full of potholes.

The film oscillates between four languages. Hindi, English, Ranaut’s English and Abhishek’s I’m too cool for you, hip-hoppish drawl. Goswami attempts a British accent as well, but unfortunately does not have enough lines to qualify as a separate category.

Dias is one of the few good things about the film – even though the most we see her is in an item song that is quite tough to remember. Come to think of it, I can barely remember any of the music from the film.

If you’ve read your Christie, you know that the least likely person will be the killer. However the murderer is so apparent that you don’t even feel like giving yourself a pat on the back for having guessed it about an hour into the film. Even your most obnoxious know-it-all of a friend won’t say, “I knew it.”

Whodunnit? This one’s more a why-made-it?

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Film: gamecast: abhishek bachchan, anupam kher, kangana ranaut, shahana goswami, boman irani, sarah jane dias, jimmy shergillproducer: excel entertainmentrating:  .

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Release date: 01 April, 2011

Characters:

Abhishek Bachchan: Neil Menon A Casino owner by profession who has investments in various businesses, some legal and some not so legal. His involvement in crime is about to threaten to his existence.

Kangna Ranaut: Sia Agnihotri A detective who has stumbled upon a case of her lifetime.

Sarah Jane ...  Dias: Maya The connection between the four strangers.

Anupam Kher: Kabir Malhotra An eccentric billionaire, who lives like a recluse on his private island in Greece.

Boman Irani: OP Ramsay A politician from Thailand, who is running for elections for be the Prime Minister, potentially one of the most powerful man in Thailand.

Jimmy Shergill: Vikram Kapoor A bollywood superstar, recognized by all on the streets of India, Vikram's last three films have been flops; his next big release, will be a make or break for his career.

Shahana Goswami: Tisha Khanna A crime journalist, with a career that is going nowhere, who is offered a journalist scoop that is about to change her career.

Game is a story of 4 strangers (Neil Menon, OP Ramsay, Tisha Khanna and Vikram Kapoor) who have been invited by the reclusive Kabir Malhotra, to his private island of Samos, Greece.

They don't know each other and they don't know him... and by the next morning they will wish they had never come.

Game is a whodunit tale spanning 5 international cities; a slick edge-of-the-seat crime thriller with twists and turns involving love, revenge, retribution and good old-fashioned murder.

Everyone is a Suspect, and Every Suspect has a motive.

It's not over till its over. - GAME

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Kabir Malhotra, a billionaire business tycoon invites four people from India to his private island in Greece. He invites three of them to blame for his daughter's sudden death. The next morning, Kabir Malhotra is found murdered in his study room.

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