The Opera Tattler

* Notes *
Rohit Shetty's comedic thriller Sunday opened a couple of weekends ago, and failed to become the first blockbuster of 2008. Ajay Devgan was entertaining as the corrupt ice-cream eating policeman ACP Rajveer Randhava, and Ayesha Takia was perfectly adorable as his goofy and forgetful dubbing artist love interest Sehar Thapar. Arshad Warsi (Ballu) and Irfan Khan (Kumar) were often hilarious comic relief and their fight scenes were particularly funny. The movie had quite a few jokes about other movies in it, and generally was all over the place, perhaps because of the mixed genre.

The muddled plot was not helped by the rather dull music, nor by the dancing. The word "Sunday" is incessantly repeated in the lyrics, and helpfully translated in the subtitles again and again. Esha Deol looked very pretty in her item number, but her appearance just added to the marked lack of focus overall.

* Tattling *
Along with making fun of other Hindi films, Sunday also includes a silly East Asian martial arts caricature, one of the minor characters is a small, ineffectual karate "expert" who emits high-pitched noises that are said to sound like Chinese.

The showing I went to in Fremont was poorly attended, there were barely a dozen people in the theatre.