ROY

“Roy” was one movie I was really looking forward to watch, for almost 2 months. There was a strange eagerness to watch it. In a way, you can give the credit to the promos doing the rounds. The music is melodic and videos of the songs also looks promising. “ Chittiya kaliyaan” featuring Jacqueline Fernandez has been ruling the top-10 singles chart for weeks now. Some fanciful girl I know even installed it as her ringer tune. Though, quite why, I don’t know!

Jacqueline Fernandez 

Arjun Rampal & Jacqueline

Vikramjit singh is a first time director. What intrigues me even more is the fact that he is a investment banker, who was working in the US with no formal film degree.  Well, you can not say that he has no bollywood connection or background as his father has been associated with the industry and worked for Yash Chopra for quite some time.

Still, roping in stars like Ranbir Kapoor in a debut movie can be quite a Herculean task. Despite all my optimism, the initial reviews of the movie were not promising and discouraging enough for me to change my decision. I took refuge in the saying,”when everybody says it’s bad, it probably is bad.”

Unwilling to shell out money on this dethroned contender of a super hit title, I am still contemplating as to what could possibly go so wrong with this movie that people claimed to have left their seats in the middle of the story. 

If not for fun, I will conjure up the critic in me and watch “Roy” to find out the reason of the debacle and may be give a pointer or two to Vikramjit singh, when I meet him.

All in the name of art, I guess.