By:
Joginder
Tuteja,
IndiaFM
Thursday,
August
09,
2007
Reactions
after
first
screening
of
Cash:
'Style
hai
par
soul
nahin'
[There
is
style
in
the
film
but
no
soul]
'Action
achcha
hai
par
story
kahan
hai'
[There
is
good
action
in
the
film
but
no
story]
'Gaane
badiya
hai
lekin
usse
sirf
kaam
to
nahi
chalta'
[Songs
are
good
but
that
is
not
good
enough]
'Actors
were
looking
good
but
they
hardly
had
dialogues
to
speak'
And
by
the
way,
this
one
takes
the
cake:
"Animation
was
a
unique
experience
but
guess
what,
it
seemed
like
it
was
filled
in
to
compensate
for
action
sequences
which
the
director
couldn't
shoot."
Hmm,
wonderful,
I
thought!
Style
hai,
action
hai,
gaane
hai,
good
looking
actors
hai,
animation
top-class
hai,
par
film
achchi
nahi
hai!
Errr,
I
am
a
little
confused
now!
What
were
we
expecting
anyways
from
Cash?
A
'Schindler's
List'?
Or
was
it
'A
Beautiful
Mind'?
Closer
home,
was
this
'chor-police'
story
meant
to
be
an
'Ardh
Satya'
in
the
making?
No.
So
what
is
this
hullabaloo
all
about?
And
mind
you,
all
the
noise
was
being
heard
more
from
within
the
media
than
outside
it.
Even
before
the
Friday
came
to
a
close,
the
media
seemed
to
know
all
about
which
way
the
film
is
turning.
Well,
isn't
it
a
too
early
to
say
that?
Why
not
wait
for
the
collections
of
the
film
to
be
revealed?
Chalo
ok,
let's
leave
the
economics/commerce
part
aside!
Let's
get
back
talking
about
the
film.
What
does
one
look
forward
to
most
in
an
action
entertainer?
Good
visuals,
nice
locations,
breathtaking
stunts,
loads
of
beauties
and
last
but
not
the
least
pulsating
music.
Didn't
Cash
have
all
of
that?
Moreover
did
the
makers
of
the
film,
most
notably
director
Anubhav
Sinha,
ever
proclaim
that
his
film
was
anything
more
than
being
a
sheer
time
pass
entertainer.
Heck,
even
the
film's
promotional
material
read
-
"The
biggest
action
film
ever".
Thank
goodness,
everyone
hailed
the
action
sequences.
Else,
we
would
have
come
back
saying:
"Poster
ki
quality
to
achchi
thi
lekin
caption
justified
nahi
tha.'
Let's
not
even
get
into
comparison
mode
here.
It
would
be
unjustified
for
any
of
the
films
if
we
bring
films
like
Cash
or
a
'Dhoom
2'
to
the
drawing
board
and
start
jotting
down
points
comparing
the
action/stunts
of
each
of
the
three
films.
But
let's
not
forget
the
point
that
even
Yash
Raj
Films
[with
all
due
respect
to
the
film
makers,
they
did
a
great
job
with
'packaging'
the
film
well]
always
maintained
that
'Dhoom
2'
was
a
'look
based'
film.
With
look,
they
meant
everything
from
costumes
to
style
to
visuals
to
locations
to
cinematography
and
everything
else
that
goes
into
the
'package'.
When
we
didn't
raise
an
eyebrow
for
'Dhoom
2'
and
accepted
dozen
odd
loopholes
in
the
screenplay
(no
issues
there,
it's
all
fair
in
a
film
belonging
to
this
genre),
why
have
a
step-brotherly
treatment
towards
Cash?
Is
Cash
in
the
same
mould
as
'Dhoom
2'?
No
one
claimed
so
all
this
while.
So
why
are
we
trying
to
bring
on
the
comparisons
and
try
to
ruin
a
film's
prospects?
Why
not
let
the
audiences
decide
that
for
themselves?
Lekin
nahin!
I
have
a
job
to
do
and
the
goodness
or
the
badness
of
my
job
may
well
be
influenced
by
how
the
person
sitting
next
to
me
reacts.
And
mind
you,
this
person
could
be
a
critic
or
film
personality
or
a
common
man
on
the
street.
But
the
way
it
works
is
that
if
there
are
two
people
out
there
(probably
the
best
in
the
business)
proclaiming
the
film
to
be
BAD,
how
could
my
poor
soul
state
just
the
opposite?
Leave
aside
singing
praises
about
the
film,
I
may
shudder
to
even
think
of
raising
a
single
positive
about
the
film.
Aakhir
mujhe
bhi
apni
reputation
maintain
karni
hai
yaar,
warna
log
kya
kahenge
ki
mujhe
aisi
film
pasand
aayi?
'Kabhi
Alvida
Naa
Kehna'
suffered
the
same
fate,
one
hopes
Cash
doesn't!
Remember
what
happened
with
KANK?
I
have
a
classic
example
to
state
here.
There
was
this
up
market
colleague
of
mine
who
was
traditionally
fond
of
watching
anything
and
everything
that
had
Bollywood
written
over
it.
But
suddenly
on
the
Monday
after
the
release
of
KANK,
she
joined
a
conversation
of
10
odd
yuppie
kinds
in
cafeteria
who
didn't
have
a
single
kind
word
to
say
about
the
film.
Guess
what,
she
joined
the
fray
and
passed
an
anecdote
that
she
could
hardly
identify
with
the
infidelity
theme.
'What
is
she
smoking',
I
thought,
because
a)
It
was
strange
to
see
her
saying
anything
anti-Bollywood
and
b)
Though
it
may
be
a
little
irrelevant
but
then
she
was
not
even
married!
Later
I
did
pull
her
in
a
corner
and
asked
her
what
made
her
say
so.
Well,
with
all
due
respect
to
my
promise
of
'I
will
keep
this
off
the
record',
she
did
confess
that
she
had
liked
the
film
immensely
but
couldn't
muster
courage
to
defend
it.
Why?
Because
that
would
have
made
her
a
laughing
stock
amongst
the
people
who
had
nothing
but
criticism
for
the
Karan
Johar
film.
And
by
the
way,
God
only
knows
how
many
of
those
10
intellectual
yuppies
had
actually
even
seen
the
film!
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