Radio

Overdose Of Music

Radio has no story. It's bunch of haphazardly put together scenes involving some equally confused characters. Adding to the adversity is the director's fixation for dividing his film into non-linear chapters. The unintentionally hilarious dialogues only act as an icing on the cake. If you thought Karzzz had gems, this one is a treasure chest of corny one-liners. Unfortunately this time around Himesh's musical score also lacks punch and can't be called a saving grace. Himesh Reshammiya is an unquestionably talented musician. Once, a normal behind-the-scenes guy, Himesh today looks visibly uncomfortable in this attention-seeking, cool dude avatar.

Targetting a generation much younger, his team gets it all wrong. Team Radio adopts the premise of Dil To Pagal Hai, styles and shoots it like Wake Up Sid and narrates like Love Aaj Kal. But it’s all too fake and wannabe. For a film dealing with relationships Radio neither has the maturity of Life in a Metro nor the innocence of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. Sonal Sehgal has a gorgeous face but her character spends too much time weeping. Shenaz on the other hand keeps grinning for no reason – clearly a reflection of the confused material handed out to both the beauties. After a gimmicky film with a chartbusting score and the miserably self-indulgent, overconfident second outing, Himesh keeps it normal this time. But he is quite simply out of place. The characters often scream out of frustration that they want to end it all. As a viewer the feeling is not quite different.

Though ‘Radio’ boasts of recovering its cost before release, thanks to the composer, who has scored music for 100 films, 500 songs and has been part of many shows worldwide, is happy that the music has been appreciated so much and has been rocking the music charts. But the film falls flat when it comes to storyline and direction blessed with trite dialogues. The problem with the film is that it tries too hard to be hep and cool but falters badly. Director Ishaan Trivedi attempts to take a modern-day look at relationships (ala Imtiaz Ali) to add that youthful feel to his film but fails to capture the right pulse. His screenplay pattern with the narrative opening in individual chapters appears too wannabe. Radio isn’t much different from a Himesh Reshammiya music video – it has a heart-broken protagonist, it’s gloomy and has an overdose of music. If you are amongst those audacious audiences who buy Himesh’s music video DVDs, this film is certainly for you.

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Radio

Radio was made with a budget of Rs. 6 crore, all of which has been recovered through the sale of satellite, video and audio rights