Joker Review In Short
An Indian scientist comes up with an elaborate alien hoax to bring development to his remote native place.
Joker Review Verdict
Shirish Kunder's flick is downright silly and predictable but does make you laugh at some places...
Joker Review Story Plot
Paglapur was a remote village in North India, which housed the country's biggest mental asylum. When the map of India was being created on the eve of Independence, the British surveyor decided to not venture in the village after hearing 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, Agastya (Akshay Kumar), a native of Paglapur, who studied to become a scientist in the US, has returned back with his lover Diva (Sonakshi Sinha) to take care of his ailing father. On getting to know that the village is still under-developed, Agastya embarks upon a plan to create an elaborate 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 Review Performances
This reviewer is personally a fan of Akshay Kumar and his special brand of smart alec humour and so was a tad disappointed to see the Khiladi play the role of a straight arrow scientist, who is compelled to cook up a hoax. Kunder could have surely made the character a bit more mischievous and cheeky enough, without which Agastya seems 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 actually manages to irritate one with her 'duh' persona. 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 pout and look pretty...the rest of the cast, however, has put in a passable performance...
Joker Review Direction
Maybe it has to do with the trailers of the film, which were unveiled 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 knew 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 fortunately, makes you laugh at times as some of the gags are quite funny, though the overall effect is not that impressive. Thankfully, the movie is short enough, which is something that Kunder deserves kudos for...
Joker 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...
Joker Review Final Word
All in all, Joker is not a bad movie as such, though going to watch the flick with a lot of expectations might not be a wise idea at all...
