Went to see the movie because of high praise in print and on-line media, but the movie fails to deliver if you go expecting a film that really touches your heart or something like that.. The script/screenplay fail to deliver on several accounts where the "credibility" or "believability" or "logic" takes a massive hit and you have to watch the movie with a sackful of salt...
The concept was fair enough, but the execution is flawed, to say the least the clichés are all present as you'd expect them to be in a Bollywood movie that is ostensibly "different", and there is that constant element of "utter predictability" of run of the mill scenes/circumstances which are totally unnecessary- e.g. the protagonist is an educated middle-class girl from a conservative family in Delhi, but when she goes abroad she is shown as being incapable "dazed & distressed" by even the ordinary act of crossing a busy street in Paris- what happened to her education and smartness all of a sudden- did she even forget how to cross a road that is regulated by 'Stop' and 'Walk' signals- why does she need a man's hand (which should have been her fiancé's hand, but of course he's not there because he ditched her at the altar and she's alone on her honeymoon in Paris) to cross the street, and there is a clichéd attempt to evoke a melodramatic response from the audience by portraying her as a "damsel in distress"- that she may be, but not because she can't cross the street all of a sudden, for heaven's sake! Or, she enters a Sex-toys shop in Amsterdam and obliviously wears a cap which clearly has a pair of "boobs" on it and buys a vibrator "for her grandfather"- thinking that it is a "massager to relieve joint-pains".. I mean, come on- what is she- stupid? If she needs to see her travel agent, she chooses to visit him at night and then return walking through deserted alleys of Paris where she has already seen shady characters prowling about, thereby making it extremely convenient for a 'purse-snatching-in-a-dark-alley' scene that appears to be in the film for the sole purpose of enhancing Rani's "vulnerability" in the eyes of the audience- what crap!!!
Lisa Haydon is a "carefree" room-service lady in the Paris Hotel who sleeps around with Hotel guests and moans loudly like there's no tomorrow (so much so that she startles Rani who's trying to sleep in the next room) and then asks Rani to "promise you won't tell my Manager that I have sex with the Hotel-guests" (as if he wouldn't know if Rani didn't go and tell him- half of Paris would know by now, considering how loudly she was bellowing from the top of her lungs, that too during day-time...)... this is her routine when she's "working", and when she's not working, she goes partying and shopping in fancy stores...
One 'slut who is actually a good-at-heart woman' character is enough for one film but no- the director just had to push in another one: meet Ruksana 'from a poor family of many sisters plus an old mother back home (and obviously Abbu has passed away) in Pakistan'- who came for "studies" to Amsterdam (!!!!) and ended up as a stripper and is now called- guess what- "Roxette" !!! Why she is there in the plot at all is an utter mystery...
Kangana Ranaut is her "usual self" as Rani- nothing extraordinary or mind-blowing in terms of acting- passable at best..
Lisa Haydon is there just to preen around semi-naked and show skin under the pretext of being a "modern, carefree, single-mother"
Rajkumar Rao as Vijay at least makes his character believable and credit to him for that, but his role is a minor one in the scheme of things- also the ostensible cause for his U-turn of again wanting to marry Rani after ditching her in the first place is left without any apparent explanation..
Don't go to the Theatre expecting an outstanding movie- "Queen" is a just-about-okayish attempt to create something that undeniably had the potential for being extraordinary.
The concept was fair enough, but the execution is flawed, to say the least the clichés are all present as you'd expect them to be in a Bollywood movie that is ostensibly "different", and there is that constant element of "utter predictability" of run of the mill scenes/circumstances which are totally unnecessary- e.g. the protagonist is an educated middle-class girl from a conservative family in Delhi, but when she goes abroad she is shown as being incapable "dazed & distressed" by even the ordinary act of crossing a busy street in Paris- what happened to her education and smartness all of a sudden- did she even forget how to cross a road that is regulated by 'Stop' and 'Walk' signals- why does she need a man's hand (which should have been her fiancé's hand, but of course he's not there because he ditched her at the altar and she's alone on her honeymoon in Paris) to cross the street, and there is a clichéd attempt to evoke a melodramatic response from the audience by portraying her as a "damsel in distress"- that she may be, but not because she can't cross the street all of a sudden, for heaven's sake! Or, she enters a Sex-toys shop in Amsterdam and obliviously wears a cap which clearly has a pair of "boobs" on it and buys a vibrator "for her grandfather"- thinking that it is a "massager to relieve joint-pains".. I mean, come on- what is she- stupid? If she needs to see her travel agent, she chooses to visit him at night and then return walking through deserted alleys of Paris where she has already seen shady characters prowling about, thereby making it extremely convenient for a 'purse-snatching-in-a-dark-alley' scene that appears to be in the film for the sole purpose of enhancing Rani's "vulnerability" in the eyes of the audience- what crap!!!
Lisa Haydon is a "carefree" room-service lady in the Paris Hotel who sleeps around with Hotel guests and moans loudly like there's no tomorrow (so much so that she startles Rani who's trying to sleep in the next room) and then asks Rani to "promise you won't tell my Manager that I have sex with the Hotel-guests" (as if he wouldn't know if Rani didn't go and tell him- half of Paris would know by now, considering how loudly she was bellowing from the top of her lungs, that too during day-time...)... this is her routine when she's "working", and when she's not working, she goes partying and shopping in fancy stores...
One 'slut who is actually a good-at-heart woman' character is enough for one film but no- the director just had to push in another one: meet Ruksana 'from a poor family of many sisters plus an old mother back home (and obviously Abbu has passed away) in Pakistan'- who came for "studies" to Amsterdam (!!!!) and ended up as a stripper and is now called- guess what- "Roxette" !!! Why she is there in the plot at all is an utter mystery...
Kangana Ranaut is her "usual self" as Rani- nothing extraordinary or mind-blowing in terms of acting- passable at best..
Lisa Haydon is there just to preen around semi-naked and show skin under the pretext of being a "modern, carefree, single-mother"
Rajkumar Rao as Vijay at least makes his character believable and credit to him for that, but his role is a minor one in the scheme of things- also the ostensible cause for his U-turn of again wanting to marry Rani after ditching her in the first place is left without any apparent explanation..
Don't go to the Theatre expecting an outstanding movie- "Queen" is a just-about-okayish attempt to create something that undeniably had the potential for being extraordinary.