Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai Movie Reviews

In the end, the idealistic Amar Joshi does get manipulated by the big bad world of Bollywood and thrives in mediocrity. We just hope the audience doesn’t fall for such tackiness!

Lights! Camera!... Uh, huh, Reaction!? ... If you're 'allergic' to movies on movies, you're bound to get one. If you can digest anythingBollywood ... Picture this. So, here's a film on making films. A picture-in-a-picture. (All those harbouring a secret 70mm dream; and all wannabe filmmakers may please note) - You may throw away those books on 'All You Need To Know About Filmmaking'. Walk in right here, but wait, review abhi baaki hai

We have been shown actors and actresses struggle on screen waiting for that one big break. The alleged functioning of Bollywood when it comes to the giving a break to strugglers has been canned for posterity on screen. There has been Zoya Akhtar's LUCK BY CHANCE starring her brother Farhan. Recently, The DIRTY PICTURE showed us the ugly side of the industry. KHOYA KHOYA CHAND, to some extent, also exposed the way Bollywood functions

Mere Dost Picture Abhi Baki Hai is a satire on the formulaic functioning of the Indian film industry. In the film, Suniel Shetty plays a budding filmmaker who tells the lead heroine of his film to underplay while on camera. Sadly every actor in this film goes over the top. The film ridicules every formula in filmmaking from item numbers to rain songs but while doing so it conveniently resorts to them as well

Some films arrive too late in the day. MERE DOST PICTURE ABHI BAKI HAIN is one such film. This one has taken a really longgg time to hit the screens. Resultantly, its concept and also the humor, which might have worked when it was green-lit several years ago, look completely out of sync in the present scenario. A number of films with Bollywood as the backdrop have been attempted in the past.

Picture Abhi Baaki Hai is an interesting premise gone awfully wrong in the direction department. Cheap production values and a clutter of actors who seem to have returned from a scary trip to Planet Oblivion (Suniel Shetty, Neena Gupta, Udita Goswami, Rajpal Yadav) contribute to making this a B-grade movie. The film scrutinises the hypocritical and wannabe ways of Bollywood through another B-grade film (called Cheekh)

As it is, it is a forgetful film laced with vulgar dialogues that pass for humour, worn out production values and acting that will make you cringe.

Everyone loves Bollywood; some make the mistake of trying to make a career out of it. Amar Joshi (Sunil Shetty) is one such romantic. Armed with dreams of Bollywood and a course in direction from a London University, he lands up in Bollywood trying to get his dream film, Cheekh, made. While chasing producers and production houses, Amar has a helpful friend Suraj (Rajpal Yadav), a struggling actor who tries to give him sane advice

Mein cinema hoon (I am cinema),” goes the voice-over. Much in line with Mahabharat’s “Mein samay hoon.” This is how the movie starts. It is set in Bollywood. A young aspiring director, having studied filmmaking in London, comes to Bombay to make it in movies. He has a script about a young woman journalist who exposes a pharmaceutical scam. He has a friend (Rajpal Yadav) who is an extra in Bollywood

While the story is promising, the goings-on are drab and the humour is OTT. Suniel Shetty is strictly okay while Rajpal turns up his usual comic act. Besides that, the film has nothing to write home about.

You are probably wondering what this movie is and why the title sound so familiar. It made sense when a drunk Shah Rukh Khan dreamily muttered “Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost” in Om Shanti Om, propagating the need for happy endings. So what does it have to do as a title in this Suniel Shetty-starrer? Well, Shetty plays a small-town film buff that goes to a film school in London. Upon his return, he’s armed with

This film is like sex without orgasm. It leaves you tired, irritated and without any feeling. This film has been made by a cynic who has grown up watching the big, bad side of Bollywood. But he is too old to tell his tale now. It seems that he had nothing better to do and a lot of money to waste. So, he made a film which talks about all the ghisa pita cliches that used to happen 20 years back in Bollywood