Wonder Why?
‘Trance’ is a confusing movie. So much so that we don’t even know why so much money, effort was used to make a film which looks only like a mockery. The joke finally is on them. They make a mockery of themselves. I too was waiting for something or the other to happen but the same stuff gets repeated again and again till the end. This storyline is so basic that there need not be so much effort put to make a big film out of it.
If the idea of the film is to showcase the bad side of these missionaries and evangelist, don’t people already know it. Why a three-hour film for it? it was definitely funny but having seen them as bit jokes in numerous Tamil films, I didn’t get the idea of making a whole film out of it. I thought there would be a bigger picture behind all this. I at least hoped. But nothing of that sort happened.
My biggest disappointment was the name ‘Trance’. I expected a super stoner film. That too with big cast involved I was expecting a riot but it was made to look like a serious film, gets a depressing overtone and ends up being a nothing movie. If the point of the film was to educate, wish at least it had taken the PK route where even though it looked like an extension of Vivek jokes in Tamil, the scenes were really funny. That’s one advantage of Rajkumar Hirani being the director. He knows the craft perfectly.
The only happy thing about the film is that there were no protests against it. By reading between the lines I guess the attempt of the director was to make a film on Christianity by the anti-Christian elements. The idea was acknowledgeable but the execution was pathetic because the film was not at all practical. Just like that, the characters come and go without any reason. And the scenes are not at all logical and what’s worse it’s not even funny.
Most of the film’s criticism was towards the slow and boring second half. I believe its because everyone expected things to change at least in second half but it doesn’t. Thus, the disappointment. If not for that factor, the whole film is a lull. The movies first act is terrific when we don’t know what its all about. Whether to be happy or sad or depressed but then when the movie gets to focus on a storyline it falls miserably. The climax where is too hard to believe and impractical. Again, a storyline which gets injected right towards the end which doesn’t stick to our mind. A pastor who’s so famous can be reached through phone just by a common man and can be found in church just like that. He could also enter and kill a couple of big shots just like that. Too many just like that’s for my liking.
The director wanted to give a platform for Fahad to go berserk but if it had been a script like ‘Magnolia’ or ‘The Wolf of the Wall Street’ then Fahad would have been remembered like a Tom Cruise or DiCaprio respectively but what he does looks just like a tomfoolery with a wafer thin script. Whereas GVM gets a solid role which fits him to the tee. All in all ‘Trance’ is a deep disappointment.
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