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Rustam Deboo (Sharman Joshi) is a man you might meet on the streets of Mumbai. He’s the modest Parsi with neatly side-parted hair and round glasses who wears the sudreh-kusti, rides a scooter to work and lives in an old house with an ageing father (Boman Irani as Deboo). He barely manages to make ends meet on the salary of a head clerk at the RTO, yet is honest to a fault — when he runs a red light without getting caught, he finds a copmore |
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Like the Munnabhai movies and 3 Idiots with which it shares its DNA, Ferrari Ki Sawaari is a well-intentioned film with its heart positioned firmly in the right place. And yet, this simple-minded tale about an ordinary family chasing an extraordinary dream never quite soars. It is a simple-minded tale about an ordinary family chasing an extraordinary dream never quite soars. Sharman Joshi is Rusy Deboo, a government clerk who’s honest to a faultmore |
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The first teaser campaign of Ferrari Ki Sawaari had almost zero footage from the film. All it said, and in bold, big fonts, was that itwas from the makers of Lage Raho Munna Bhai and 3 Idiots. No, Vinod Chopra Films was not just promoting the hit bit, but also the fact that here comes another 18-reel celebration of goodness. Unadulterated, wholesome goodness. In fact, by the time this Ferrari crosses the chequered flag and each and every charactermore |
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Vroom! Vroom! It's time to go zoom! Rev up those engines and turn up that turbo firepower for a ride on '560 horses' (as the Ferrari's horsepower is cutely referred to in this squeaky clean, red metal enterprise). Made for all boys, who never really grow up, and all children who aspire to grow into the revered boots of cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar. And nothing is more aspirational than a sparkling red Ferrari - the exact same one owned by the Little Master himselfmore |
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Ordinary people have simple dreams. And when they do aspire to lofty heights, they will leave no stone unturned to fulfill their fantasies. It's what we desis love. Cheering for our protagonist when he's down on his luck, holding our breath when he struggles to overcome the odds. Ferrari Ki Sawaari isn't something that was put together in a hurry because the actors were available. This was a tribute to all the young boys who spend countless hours, dreaming of the daymore |
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Three actors play a stellar role in Rajesh Mapuskar's directorial debut, FERRARI KI SAWAARI - Boman Irani, Sharman Joshi and child artiste Ritvik Sahore, who is also making his debut. For the first 45 minutes Mapuskar, along with these three, takes you on a flaming ride. However, just before the interval, he hits a road bump. An exhaustive scene where the politician has second thoughts on wanting a Ferrari for his son's wedding gets a bit tediousmore |
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Ferrari Ki Sawari is a simple rise-of-the-underdog story of a talented boy who dreams of making it big in the world of cricket. What makes the narrative interesting is its less-taken route (through a Ferrari) and the ensuing eventful journey. The slick sports car gives that additional momentum to the movie thereby ensuring a roller-coaster ride. Kayo (Ritvik Sahore) is just a school kid but plays cricket like a professional. Destiny gives him a chancemore |
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It is a tad difficult not to like a movie that celebrates the extraordinary dreams of ordinary folk. Why, then, does Ferrari Ki Sawaari feel like a less than perfect joyride? This competently crafted and well-intentioned cricket-themed film steers clear of many of commercial Hindi cinema’s narrative conventions – it sure gets full marks on that count – but succumbs to some of its most retreaded clichés. You might root for the young underdog and his honest-to-a-fault familymore |
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Chweet, so sweet. Aapro Rusi cooks, cleans, tucks his son into bed, casts a loving glance at his cranky dad, and believe it or collapse, insists on paying a fine on scootering through a red traffic light. Fright. This figment of imagination can’t be real. Then, you, tell yourself oh-ho producer and co-writer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, with creative producer support from Rajkumar Hirani, and direction from Rajesh Mapuskar have set up a kind of Frank Capra-style of goody-goody landmore |
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Ferrari Ki Sawaari is about an honest, middle-class father’s effort to get his only child into a cricket training camp in London. Rusy (Sharman Joshi) is the head clerk at the regional transport office in Mumbai. He stays in a Parsi colony with Kayo (Ritvik Sahore), his young, school-going son, and Deboo (Boman Irani), his cranky, old father. Rusy practices complete honesty and teaches his son to emulate him. Kayo is a budding cricketer with lots of promisemore |
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A coaching camp at Lords; a cricket-crazy little boy who’d give anything to go; a father who’d do anything to send him but doesn’t have the money; a grouchy grandfather who thinks his son is filling the child’s head with useless fantasies. Add to the mix a wedding planner called Babboo Didi, a goonda-politician, his stupid son and a Ferrari that must find its way to the stupid son’s wedding—and you have the ingredients of Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s new productionmore |
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Chweet, so sweet. Aapro Rusi cooks, cleans, tucks his son into bed, casts a loving glance at his cranky dad, and believe it or collapse, insists on paying a fine on scootering through a red traffic light. Fright. This figment of imagination can’t be real. Then, you, tell yourself oh-ho producer and co-writer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, with creative producer support from Rajkumar Hirani, and direction from Rajesh Mapuskar have set up a kind of Frank Capra-style of goody-goody landmore |
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It usually happens on unusually long journeys. Suddenly, you realize that your mobile is not working. Now, you will ask me SO WHAT my phone is not working? How does it matter? If you think that it isn’t a big deal, try playing this game with me. Switch your phone off RIGHT NOW! Done? Now whatever happens, don’t look at that phone for three hours. Watch yourself after an hour. Aren’t you missing something? The usual glance at your phone screen every two minutesmore |
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Films like these are rare. If you evaluate ‘Ferrari Ki Sawaari’ with the usual metrics set for comedies, it lacks everything that would get a film distributer to bounce his belly or seduce an audience member to shell a chunk of his weekend budget on a multiplex ticket. No Bollywood A-listers, no comedy of errors where people get seriously injured, double meaning jokes- absent. And it doesn’t even have a story that’s compelling enough when you narrate itmore |
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Towards the end of Rajesh Mapuskar’s “Ferrari Ki Sawaari“, as the protagonist and his son are re-united and embrace each other, cry and wipe the tears off each other’s cheeks, an onlooker hesitantly asks “aap jaldi karenge zara?” (would you please hurry up?). It might sound like an insensitive thing to say, but perhaps that is what someone should have said to Mapuskar as he went about making this film. Perhaps he might have restrained himselfmore |