| Summer 2007 Movie
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Music :
Gourov Dasgupta |
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Lyrics :
Ujjaiyinee, Vibha Singh |
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Direction : Suhail Tatari |
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Producer :
Atul
Pandey |
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Leading Cast :
Sikander
Kher, Ashutosh Rana, Yuvika Chaudary, Alekh Sangal, |
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Vikram
Gokhale, Prashant Narayan, Shweta Menon, Ashutosh Rana, |
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Gul Panag, Sachin Khedekar, Divya Dutta, Arjan Bajwa |
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Many filmmakers probably want to make a first film
that would shake the country's youth. To make people
stand up against what is not right and change the
system. But it is not always that the film works.
The idiom 'everyday is no a Sunday' or even better,
'not every film is a Rang De Basanti' fits fine. The
verdict? Summer 2007 is strong to leave you on a
high but not strong enough to make you want to
change things. |
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Summer 2007 is about the change that a handful of
medical students go through when they come face to
face with extremely difficult situation that people
of some villages come across.
These are rich kids who study in private medical
colleges and have never known what shortage means.
So when a student stands up to speak against the
shortcomings of the university, these five students
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by Rahul (Sikandar Kher) promise to defeat him just
to prove that the poor guy is not right.
Rahul, supported by his friends, gather enough students to
win the elections. But afraid of the mainstream college
politicians – who threaten him – these five leave for a
voluntary one-month rural service. However, it dawns only
later that they should have withdrawn from the elections
than run away to save faces as the village was not something
they had expected. It just had the basic essentials for them
and farmers were killing themselves everyday. While the gang
stays away from all this for some time, they ultimately, one
by one, get involved in the war against feudalism and
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The story does
hold promise. But every time you try to hold on to something
the approach to story telling gets slack and there goes the
intensity. The first half of the film is built based on a
different note and by the time you reach the second half it
seems to have travelled to another point to make a complete
different story. The transition is not smooth. Also, there
is an attempt to tell too many things – right from
microfinance to naxalism. The result is that the end of the
movie, which is supposed to have captured you heart, does
not even touch you. The dialogues are good to some extent. A
drawback about the film is that you fail to identify with
the characters, which has become almost a must for the
success of any film in today's cinema. Rahul seems to too
stylish even when he is angry. |
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Technically, the film sees some camera work. But
Summer 2007 too suffers from the fact that it's too
long just like its counterpart Mere Baap Pehle Aap
which released the same day. The songs drive you
crazy as you expect action. The music is nothing
great.
Gul Panag surely stands out though. In fact to an
extent that she does not fit in as a young student
along with all the others. Sikandar needs to get out
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his 'I am as cool as Abhishek Bachchan' mode. You
will almost see Abhishek Bachchan acting instead of Sikandar.
Uvika is good and so are the other two guys, Alekh Sangal
and Arjan Bajwa. Ashutosh Rana adds his signature to the
entire gamut.
Overall, as we have already mentioned, Summer 2007 falls
short of expectation – by miles. It's certainly not a Rang
De Basanti. You will not come of the theatre with the josh
to die for a cause. Leave alone changing things. Suhail
Tatari's first film is just about an average movie. Nothing
much to look forward to. |
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Rating: 2/5 |
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