Film Review: Shaka Laka Boom Boom

Film: Shaka Laka Boom Boom

Director: Suneel Darshan

Producer: Suneel Darshan

Cast: Bobby Deol, Upen Patel, Celina Jaitely, Kangana Ranaut

Rating: 0.5

And that rating is only because one has to give something. Suneel Darshan’s latest masala flick has broken all records in how appallingly bad cinema can get. 

Shaka Laka Boom Boom comes in the category of less then B-grade movies with more than B-grade actors… umm… err… stars rather. 

The film revolves around the ego of a commercially superior artist and how it destroys everything that he cherishes. Bobby Deol (AJ) is a top musician in the US of A (???) with a string of five hit albums when in walks Upen Patel (Raghav aka Reggie), a rude and brash lad who is a genius at creating music but cannot create opportunities for himself. The film deals with the encounter of AJ’s painstaking talent for music with Reggie’s effortless genius, which spawns a rivalry in AJ that ends in a road to self-destruction. A very interesting premise that has immense opportunities to explore multiple layers, but fails to realize them due to faulty screenplay, faulty direction, faulty characterization, faulty acting, where does one stop. 

The ending pays tribute to the quintessential victory of good over evil in contrived situations and leaves you thankful that the trauma has ended.

The film proves that there really is a dearth of good writers in the industry and the industry needs to do something about this ASAP. A weak script is held together by some snazzy video album type editing, (which is becoming a standard and sadly, another definition of ‘slick’) which in turn is accentuated by some ear-splitting and nerve-jarring background music. Everything is told, every motivation, emotion, action is told rather than shown, a cardinal sin in scriptwriting....

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