Shirish Kunder started his career in 2000 as a film editor and later on entered into direction with Jaan-E-Mann (2006) starring Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Priety Zinta which got him positive response from certain critics but was a box-office failure. After a six-years long gap, Shirish once again jumped into film direction with his latest offering Joker, a fantasy film (for whom?) starring (and co-producing) Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha. The film has always been in the limelight since its inception and it was said that Joker will be the best 3D film of Bollywood (if this is best we don't need a 3D, do we?). There were also talks about Shahrukh Khan refusing to sign the film which also lead to some unfortunate events (Kha.One, remember?). Now the film has released with the latest controversy being Akshay Kumar pulling off his hands from the promotion saying he was cheated by the makers, let's see what this much talked about film has to offer.
Agastya (Akshay Kumar) is a space scientist working on a project of communicating with the aliens, which he believes he can if provided some more time. His senior officials gives him a one-month ultimatum to develop the model otherwise the project would be taken from him. Agastya's girlfriend Diva (Sonakshi Sinha) informs him about his father's illness and they both reaches his native village Paglapur (what a shitty name?). Apparently, Paglapur is the sole village which is not on the map of India due to some reasons (idiotic) at the time of partition in 1947. Agastya finds out that his father is doing well and he was called on a false note; he decides to move back but on his way he comes to know that Paglapur is going through a water problem as the rivers are blocked for the village people. Agastya requests the ministers and other politicians to solve this problem but in vain. He then comes up with an idea to make a hoax crop circle suggesting the arrival of aliens which eventually attracts the whole nation towards this village. The problem comes when a scientist from the US, Simon (Alexx ONell) comes and reveals the hoax game Agastya and his team is playing with the media.
It would not be incorrect to say that this film "does not have anything to watch out for". An absolute rubbish writing of the story and the subsequent plot including the screenplay, a nonsensical direction and some irritating dialogues (all credit to Shirish Kunder) is all that Joker has. There is so much exaggeration and an overdo of the "alien" thing that this film stands "alien" to its other counterparts. A village named "Paglapur" (are you serious?) where only "mad men" (yeah! only men) lives, where there is a school-like 'title' board when you enter that village, man-made aliens made only from vegetables (is this going ridiculous? Wait, there's more) and the arrival of a skinny stupid looking thing described as an "alien"; you need to think at least 10 times before you dare to watch this flick.
Apparently, this is Akshay Kumar's 100th film (what a century! boss) and if he's serious with these kind of movies in his career, it's high time that he should retire. He's one of the finest actors we have in this era but his film selection is just terribly wrong (coincidentally he also produces these trash films). Although he plays his part quite well, but what the hell? Why is he doing this? Sonakshi Sinha once again has to play a role of a "doll" and she did so (she's experienced now). Joker marks the complete wastage of some extremely good actors like Asrani, Shreyas Talpade, Darshan Jariwala, Sanjay Mishra and Vrajesh Hirji. There was no scope for acting and as a result all the performances are dull.
Joker is a film no one could have dared to make except Kunder, the reason would be very well imbibed into your minds as you watch the film. No one could ever guess the genre of this film (fantasy, comedy, drama) as it neither make you or your children fantasize about this absurd world neither it tickles your any bone (funny is a strong word) and yes, it doesn't even make you cry. But one thing it surely does is to make you angry (literally) and make you wonder how can they even make this kind of a film (it's an insult of the viewers). Even Chitrangada Singh doesn't put the screen on fire this time (sadly, but she looks hot as ever). So, if Shirish Kunder asks you who is the JOKER in the film? Tell him "Just-aa-you" !!
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