Joker Movie Review – 2.5/5

Joker Movie Review – In Short

Shirish Kunder’s film is sheer silly and predictable but does make you laugh at some instances…
An Indian scientist comes up with an detailed alien hoax to bring development to his remote native place.

Joker Movie Review – Story Plot

Paglapur in North India was a remote village, which sheltered the country’s biggest mental asylum. When the map of India was being made on the eve of Independence, the British surveyor decided to not venture in the village after discovering reports that the asylum patients have broken out and taken control of the village. As a result, the village was nowhere on the map of this country…

Now, many years later, Akshay Kumar as Agastya, a native of Paglapur, who studied to become a scientist in the US, returns back with his love Diva played by Sonakshi Sinha to care for his ailing father. On discovering that the village is still under-developed, Agastya sets out a plan to make an detailed hoax involving alien landings and crop circles, with the purpose of drawing the attention of the media and highlighting the plight of the remote village. How this hoax snowballs into a bigger incident forms the rest of the story…

Joker Movie Review – Performances

Akshay Kumar and his special brand of upstart humour was a disappointment to see the Khiladi play the role of a straight arrow scientist, who is obliged to cook up a hoax. Shirish Kunder could have certainly made the character a bit more mischievous and saucy enough, without which Agastya appears quite boring and one-dimensional. Sonakshi Sinha, who plays Diva, the love interest of Agastya, seems determined to play the ‘dumb blonde’ role to perfection and in reality manages to irritate one with her ‘duh’ image. Same goes for Shreyas Talpade, who plays Agastya’s brother Babban and seems a retarded version of Tusshar Kapoor’s Golmaal character. Minissha Lamba, who plays a TV journalist, is seen in a ‘blink and miss’ role and doesn’t get to do much but sulk and look pretty…the rest of the cast, however, has put in a tolerable performance…

Joker Movie Review – Direction

Perhaps it has to do something with the previews of the film, which were revealed sometime back, but the story of Joker doesn’t really come as a surprise. The plot, about a scientist, who comes up with a hoax to draw public attention, is something that the audience already made out from the trailers, so there is no surprise element as such (except for the climax, but again, that is something quite predictable). Apart from that, Kunder does indulge in a lot of silly humour, which luckily, makes you laugh at times as some of the gags are rather funny, though the overall effect is not that impressive. Thankfully, the movie is short enough, which is something that Kunder deserves kudos for…

Joker Movie Review – Music

Except for the title track Joker and the foot-tapping Kaafirana number featured on the sensuous Chitrangda Singh, the music of the film is not really worth remembering…