Passing by the TV!

Not anymore the ardent bollywood buff that I was a few years ago, I have a staggering backlog of movies and songs to catch up on if I wish to be up to speed again on that theme.
I however was particularly impressed by the theatrical trailer of Dabangg that I happened to see in passing. Attribute it to the unique name or to the fact that I had, a little earlier, come across a snippet of Salman Khan walking the ramp wearing a pencil line moustache and flicking his pair of shades onto his collar behind his neck! Now that's some original fashion statement!

Nevertheless I was amused then and had looked forward to the trailers of the film. And I wasn't disappointed.

Going by first impression, the movie seems to have loads of attitude. Salman's got the swagger, the glasses, the pencilled mooch all bang in place. He's got sass. Give him a kooky comedy and the awkwardness spills out. But put him in a good showcase like Wanted or even Tere Naam and he sparkles like no other.

I was equally enamoured with his anchoring on Dus ka Dum. At a time when Amitabh Bachchan was the textbook of game show hosting, Salman went ahead with his own raw style, rendering an earthy appeal to the show and endearing himself further to his fans and a vast spread of audience.

In the Dabangg trailer he lands the cheezy dialogues with just the right punch, broods with adequate menace and gleefully smothers the goons hurling them all over the place. Well I do hope the book will be as good as its cover!
Sonakshi Sinha is an eye catcher. She has just one dialogue in the promo but she hits bulls eye with it. Surefire stuff to set off a lot of whistles! Again, I do hope the film turns out to be a neat launch pad for her.

And then lets hope I follow up this post with a review of the movie!

Parting shot - Navjot Sidhu on Dus ka Dum, "Yahaan koi aawat hai, koi jaawat hai. Lekin jo khul ke saamne aaye, wohi Mallika Sherawat hai!"