First of all, I can't hold it; Govinda is a turn off. That guy, while being acceptably comic some times, wants to do all; comedy, action, romance, melodrama, and singing. Well dear, you're not Amitabh Bachchan! I don't know for who he makes his unbelievable movies? Why doesn't he stick to comedies? God, would I live long enough to watch a good, sane, entertaining movie for him?!
Sure Aankhen isn't that movie at all. However, I kept laughing in front of it nearly all the time. Of course not for being funny, but for being idiot!
Originally it's a comedy, but it's full of blood; at extremely awful moment, a kid is being shot in a rare scene for a movie of that kind. It's not a melodrama, but at one of the strangest writing moves in history, the movie creates a lost-and-found theme with 2 look-alikes for the lead's father and the lead, and - try not to laugh - they are the father's twin brother and his son?? So, either the twin brothers married twin sisters to born identical sons (unlikely!), or one of the brothers slept with the other's wife to gave birth to twin kids that he stole one of them (likely!), or maybe the Hallucinogenic drug, that the writer was on, was so effective (as likely as not!). Another thing; this movie actually has an Indian god in it, the monkey, yet not as a wise adviser, but as an action figure. See how many precedents this movie has?!
Which reminds me: Did you see the monkey?! How it seemed like a cat with a terrible mask for a monkey?, and how it appears suddenly with the same outfit of the heroes? Did you see how Govinda turned out to be alive? Or how the thieves of his match did nothing but to shave him (Did you hear about thieves that shave their victim before?!), Did you see how Shakti Kapoor has a hate for wearing a shirt?, Did you see the unknown man who the fake Chief Minister shots in the hospital, the one standing behind Chunky Pandey?! WHO WAS THAT MAN? AND HOW HE, NEITHER PANDEY, COULDN'T SEE KAPOOR HIDDING UNDER THE CHAIR IN FRONT OF THEM???, and please, Did you see how Govinda killed the evil man brutally at the end (by throwing him to a plane's fan!!), while he could have been easily handed over to the police?!, most probably they would have executed him later by exposing him to a copy of this movie. On second thought, throw him to a plane's fan more mercifully!
Well, I can go forever with this "Did you see.." routine, since the idiot moments are endless, and forced is what this movie is all about. Still the most overblown one is the matter of the provincial look-alikes?!! I still ask, what was the need to that storyline?? This is one of the biggest mysteries I have ever met. But wait a second, is it "I have ever met" or "I have ever met in an Indian movie"? Because there is an important difference, since at the second the sky is the limit (even if it wasn't a fantasy!).
Despite that the editing pulled off forming a sane personality for a chain of absolutely crazy events, it's still so nervous movie. So with the overdone action, countless coincidences, Govinda, another totally incomprehensible and useless Govinda, a Rambo monkey (that wasn't meant for laughing), shouting everybody, and blood.. then it's a wild ride of Bollywood hallucination!
Near its end, I felt hysteria. And when I read that it was 1993's biggest Bollywood hit, I felt both mad and sad. You have to really pity the Indian moviegoers for loving such a movie that much. Mindless entertainment wasn't that mindless and unentertaining like that before. So how come a camp masterpiece, like Aankhen, IS a masterpiece for them at the moment?!
PS: Again, why all the bad Indian movies that I have watched has to belong to the decade of the 1990s?!
Sure Aankhen isn't that movie at all. However, I kept laughing in front of it nearly all the time. Of course not for being funny, but for being idiot!
Originally it's a comedy, but it's full of blood; at extremely awful moment, a kid is being shot in a rare scene for a movie of that kind. It's not a melodrama, but at one of the strangest writing moves in history, the movie creates a lost-and-found theme with 2 look-alikes for the lead's father and the lead, and - try not to laugh - they are the father's twin brother and his son?? So, either the twin brothers married twin sisters to born identical sons (unlikely!), or one of the brothers slept with the other's wife to gave birth to twin kids that he stole one of them (likely!), or maybe the Hallucinogenic drug, that the writer was on, was so effective (as likely as not!). Another thing; this movie actually has an Indian god in it, the monkey, yet not as a wise adviser, but as an action figure. See how many precedents this movie has?!
Which reminds me: Did you see the monkey?! How it seemed like a cat with a terrible mask for a monkey?, and how it appears suddenly with the same outfit of the heroes? Did you see how Govinda turned out to be alive? Or how the thieves of his match did nothing but to shave him (Did you hear about thieves that shave their victim before?!), Did you see how Shakti Kapoor has a hate for wearing a shirt?, Did you see the unknown man who the fake Chief Minister shots in the hospital, the one standing behind Chunky Pandey?! WHO WAS THAT MAN? AND HOW HE, NEITHER PANDEY, COULDN'T SEE KAPOOR HIDDING UNDER THE CHAIR IN FRONT OF THEM???, and please, Did you see how Govinda killed the evil man brutally at the end (by throwing him to a plane's fan!!), while he could have been easily handed over to the police?!, most probably they would have executed him later by exposing him to a copy of this movie. On second thought, throw him to a plane's fan more mercifully!
Well, I can go forever with this "Did you see.." routine, since the idiot moments are endless, and forced is what this movie is all about. Still the most overblown one is the matter of the provincial look-alikes?!! I still ask, what was the need to that storyline?? This is one of the biggest mysteries I have ever met. But wait a second, is it "I have ever met" or "I have ever met in an Indian movie"? Because there is an important difference, since at the second the sky is the limit (even if it wasn't a fantasy!).
Despite that the editing pulled off forming a sane personality for a chain of absolutely crazy events, it's still so nervous movie. So with the overdone action, countless coincidences, Govinda, another totally incomprehensible and useless Govinda, a Rambo monkey (that wasn't meant for laughing), shouting everybody, and blood.. then it's a wild ride of Bollywood hallucination!
Near its end, I felt hysteria. And when I read that it was 1993's biggest Bollywood hit, I felt both mad and sad. You have to really pity the Indian moviegoers for loving such a movie that much. Mindless entertainment wasn't that mindless and unentertaining like that before. So how come a camp masterpiece, like Aankhen, IS a masterpiece for them at the moment?!
PS: Again, why all the bad Indian movies that I have watched has to belong to the decade of the 1990s?!