The story revolves around a little boy Kayo Deboo (Ritwik Sahore) who is a budding cricketer nursing a dream to
play for India
When Rusy’s efforts
to raise the money through a PF or bank loans fail, the only ray of hope is a wedding planner
(Seeema Pahwa) who offers 1.5 lakh if he can fetch a Ferrari car for a local
corporator’s sons’s wedding procession.
But the only person in the city who owns such a car is Sachin Tendulkar and
Rusy must steal it from him.
Sharman Joshi
perfectly fits the bill of playing a simple
and hapless guy weighed down by fate. But he lacks the charisma to carry an entire movie on his shoulders. Boman Irani is top notch as usual.
Little Ritwik Sahore complements the star cast. On yes, Vidya Balan makes her presence felt in an unnecessary item number.
The film raises a
number of issues such as the impracticality of someone with modest means
dreaming of a career in sports, the
difficulty in making ends meet and
being able to provide for one’s dreams all on a meager salary and the thought of truly talented folk being trampled due to politics and those with
deep pockets.
The overdose of drama
that is focused on the child is likely to interest
preteen audiences who would gladly drag
their parents to watch the film. And then there are those who will give it
a chance because Rajkumar Hirani’s name is associated with it. But otherwise,
there are so many plot holes that leave you
dissatisfied.
First, there was no
specific reason for the lead characters
being Parsi except about showing them to be living in a Parsi colony and one joke where a goon says he called
out for ‘Rustom’ and twenty of them turned up. Also, was the setting really 2012? Barring the existence of mobile
phones, the film seemed like a throwback
to 1980s. And over the top
characters like the corporator’s son are simply irritating.
The portrayal of his
poverty is rather unrealistic. Granted that he is a widower and sole breadwinner caring for his old
father and providing for his young boy all on meager government salary; but in
an age where small time street vendors carry mobile phones, our hero doesn’t seemed to have bought one. And why
does he stash money in odd places instead
of leaving it in his salary account? What was the director thinking?
The honesty angle
has also been overdone and inconsistent. Imagine anyone
accidentally jumping an unsupervised
traffic light and searching desperately for a cop to voluntarily pay fine! And within minutes, our epitome of honesty
goes on and steals a fancy car and
jolly well drives it around the city with his son. What ever happened to all
that gyaan about setting an example to
his son in the traffic signal incident?
What more? Our hero leaves
the stolen car on the street, nearly at Sachin’s doorstep in broad daylight; Boman Irani’s
character brings the car to the cricket association headquarters where nobody
seems to care where the car came from
or why were they driving around like
crazy amidst the fountains in the garden. To top it all, nobody gets pulled up by the law. All
this in the name of cinematic liberty,
wow!
To sum up, ‘Ferrari Ki Sawaari’ is a film with its heart in the right place. Just that it
goes overboard with some unrealistic
drama. Given that the movie is centered on a kid and we are a cricket crazy
nation, it may have takers despite it being average fare!
Rating 5/10: Simple film which is let down by a weak
script!
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