Popcorn Khao Mast Ho Jao Movie Review * Tanisha, Akshay Kapoor, Rashmi Nigam, Yash Tonk, Deepak Tijori

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'Popcorn Khao Mast Ho Jao' - 'POP went the corn!'

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Credits
Producer/s:	Pritish Nandy Communications
Director:	Kabir Sadanand
Cast:	Tanisha, Akshay Kapoor, Rashmi Nigam, Yash Tonk, Deepak Tijori
Music:	Vishal-Shekar
Lyrics:	Vishal Dadlani

Caution: 'This film might put you off popcorn at least for a while!' This is no exaggeration! To start with why does everybody keep saying, 'Popcorn Khao Mast Ho Jao'? right from the beginning of the film. If you thought they had outgrown their college campus tendencies then you are completely wrong. They continue to say it even later. By chance, you discover that this is the name of the film in which our blue-eyed boy, Rahul (debutant Akshay Kapoor) is to debut as a music director. The ironical bit is that the film is being touted as the country's hottest love story with a huge dose of comedy (somebody please laugh!), when the protagonist, Rahul, leaves behind love and friendship to make it in the world of music. He also decides that he will not keep in touch with his college friends, Goldie (Yash Tonk) and Tanya (Tanishaa) to avoid any sort of distraction. Even after 5 years he has no achievement to boast of except that he has managed to get a music baron's attractive foreign-returned daughter, (Rashmi Nigam), hooked on to him. She also happens to be the girl he lusted for real badly in college while Tanya loved him deeply. (We wonder if college kids today know what it is to love?).

Anyway, cut to the present. Rahul seems to be chasing his dreams of becoming a music director for almost five years but there is no struggle shown. It may have appeared clichéd but at least it would have made the audience feel for him. The climax shows him at the film premiere but there is no focus on him or his work except for a scribe (who also happens to be an old college buddy) asking for an interview. There are no rehearsals or studio scenes. Where is the euphoria? Ridiculous! Whatever scope the film had for emotions has been thrown away by the director's incompetence and his desperate attempt to make the film in a different style. Unfortunately it has shaped up into an emotionless film. One can't even remember a single memorable moment in the film.

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