Ferrari Ki Sawari- Part Bumpy Mostly Smooth

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Ferrari Ki Sawari's ride was a smooth one true to it's brand name, but part bumpy because of Vidhu Vinod Chopra (VVC) and his team.
It has increasingly become or at least beginning to get clear that this camp business in Bollywood is developing a genre of it's own. The YRF camp, the usual mushy stuff and with loads of feel good, you do have the occasional Chak De (however, with loads of feel good) and then the Karan Johar camp of predictable teeny bopper stuff, the Aamir Khan camp of trying to be serious, hijacking creative director's plot and often Aamir laden dilemma and the recently constituted Anurag Kashyap camp with serious, edgy, issue based (often bordering on reality and virtuality) cinema. In this humdrum, the VVC camp has also been churning out their own brand of cinema. Seriously after Munnabhai the VVC camp has decided to own up this property of "get to the audience's tear gland". It has been working with them, 3 Idiots is an example of that and this one too (Ferrari ki Sawari) but more to the end.
The movie starts well with the characters firmly in place. To me perhaps the support cast was simply superb. Sharman and Boman had nothing much to do. The film was tightly controlled by the strong cast of Deepak Shirke, Seema Pahwa, Aakash Dhabade, Nilesh Divekar and Vijay Nikam. But the movie belonged to Seema Pahwa and she finally displayed what she is worth. From the days of Badki (Hum Log), Seema has taken one hell of a long journey. She is amazing and never gets out of the character once. Deepak Shirke, what a revelation! He has finally got his worth from those endless and mindless villainy and crude humour he was entrusted with. They hold the movie. Boman is overexposed and a talent like him needs to pause, look back and think. His Munnabhai and Khosla ka Ghosla are light years ahead. He has proven himself time and again, so I guess he has nothing to prove and therefore take a break, look back at your repertoire of work and see what value adds you could have brought to this role. Sharman, a huge talent wasted, but of course his character was pretty much linear with nothing to choose.
Overall the movie starts well like a Ferrari, the cruise is nice and easy, but the end gets a little bumpy with the VVC genre heavily over weighing on Mapuskar (the director). It is a very Indian affair- finishing is poor. My mother says, it is the Greeks who brought the tragedy genre to theater and before that it was only comedy (often the cliche- all's well that ends well) and that is very us! VVC and his team endorse that. Go take a ride, after all the Ferrari is actually Sachin's (at least, the end credits said that)!       

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