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Home > Bollywood Movie Reviews > Ta Ra Rum Pum Average Flick From Yash Raj Camp APK | April 28, 2007 Rating: **.5 (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) Art: Sharmishta Roy. Action: Steve Kelso-George Aguilar. Choreography: Vaibhavi Merchant. Cinematography: Binod Pradhan. Costumes: Mamta Anand-Surily Goel. Editing: Ritesh Soni-Rameshwar S. Bhagat. Lyrics: Javed Akhtar. Music: Vishal-Shekhar. Screenplay & Dialogues: Habib Faisal. Story & Direction: Siddharth Anand. Sound Design: Dilip Subramanium. Presenter: Yash Chopra. Producer: Aditya Chopra. Banner: Yash Raj Films. Release Date: 27th April, 2007.  Siddharth Anand's last flick Salaam Namaste with Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta may have had an average run at the BO, but it clicked with the multiplex and overseas audiences. Ta Ra Rum Pum is a family entertainer from the same banner-Yash Raj, released at the right time, the summer holidays. Except the release date, everything else with the movie fails to hit bullseye. The pace is slow, the comedy is nothing like Salaam Namaste, the music is just okay. Even for F1 fans, this movie has little to offer.Plot Rajveer Singh a.k.a. RV is a racer married to Radhika a.k.a. Shona, happily and with two kids. A near-fatal accident changes their lives, and they are forced to vacate their house, sell everything they have and move to a not-so-posh locality where RV finally drives a cab and Shona plays piano at private parties. Their struggle and how they cope with it is the rest of the plot.  Story, Screenplay and Direction The story is basically about a racer, his ups and downs in life. The end moral of the story is to save and not be a spendthrift like him; not to live for the day but plan for the future. Now since people have enough lecturing outside cinema halls, it might come across as a drag most of the times, not because of the subtext but the treatment. It's never shoddy, but it never keeps you on the edge of your seat, even with the races.There are the good parts. It's never loud and brash, and it is meant for family viewing. If this is meant for overseas audiences exclusively, it still fails to impress. A cabbie in New York City going at more than 100 mph without getting caught by the cops for speeding is almost impossible. It has that Bollywood-ish feel where logic is defied thoroughly and there is lot of sentiment and tears. The movie picks up pace in the second half. The kids are really good, and four of them as a family look quite convincing. Saif-Rani pairing is good. Jaaved Jaaferi is just fine, especially after you watch him in the brilliantly hilarious role in Salaam Namaste, this one falls flat.  Performances Saif Ali Khan has done it all now-from the voracious flirt Vicky in Yeh Dillagi to Langda Tyagi and now RV, a supercool happy-go-lucky racer. He's cool, confident and sensible as an actor. Rani is good, and their pairing works for this movie. The kids are very good. Jaaved is okay.Music and Dance The music is just average. Vishal-Shekhar have come up with much superior compositions, and Ta Ra Rum Pum has music that is never harsh on the ears. It's very forgettable. The picturizations at Times Square and other parts of NYC and Brooklyn Bridge are good. Last Word A good movie to take the kids to-clean, sweet and sentimental with some cheering to do. Otherwise, it can prove to be a drag. F1 fans better stick to star sports, but overall it's not bad, but never goes beyond okay. The movie has its moments, but those moments cannot sustain an entire movie. |