One bad thing about debuting in a movie like QSQT as a director is that all his next movies are gauged against it (story, direction and mainly the box office success). The next two movies the director gave "Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikander" and "Akele Hum Akele Tum", both of which were excellent (IMHO), did not do too good at box office. So the pressure was on Mansoor Khan to deliver a good one. He went on a scripting sabbatical, announced 'Josh' four years ago and finally gave in for the pressure.
The direction fluctuates a lot in displaying a hold on the movie and the rest of the time the movie wanders like a vagabond. A lot of date hassles, fights between the lead and director and the time it took to make this movie may be the main reasons why this movie fails. But I would like to blame it on poor story development and direction.
Story:
The story takes place in a town called Vasco, which is in Goa. There are two gangs that rule the town, one of them is the Eagles and the other one is the Bichchu Gang. Max (Shahrukh) is the leader of the Eagles and Prakash (Sharadh Kapoor) is the other gangs leader. Frequent fights take place between the two groups for obvious reasons.
Max has a twin sister Shirley (Aishwarya) whom he adores and loves a lot. He beats up anyone that dares to flirt with Shirley. Enter Rahul (Chandrachur) who has just finished MBA in Bombay and wants of move to Bombay with his family. All this changes when he sees Shirley and fall for her.
After a lot of wooing Shirley starts responding to Rahul. This continues despite both knowing the rivalry between the two gangs. It becomes more serious when Prakash decides to sell of an empty land that is shared by both gangs and then takes a serious turn when everyone comes to know who the land belongs to (any guess any one?). Rest of the movie deals with this situation (and ends happily? Or not :-)
Post Mortem:
The movie is said to be losely based on the musical West Side Story (which in turn is based on Romeo and Juliet). Performance wise Chandrachur has done a good job (surprise). Others are ok. Songs get to you after a while, but the picturisation of "Mere Khayalon Ki" stands out better than others.
As a whole the movie falters and is a big let down from the director. Especially towards the end the movie becomes laughable the way it runs its course. Hope his next movies will be better.
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