Crook - Real Issues, Filmy Story

Hey All,

First thing first.......... I'm at home now and enjoying the life here. It's proving to be a great vacation till now and fingers are crossed for ahead.

It's been a long time since i saw a movie in theater. The last movie i saw was "Knight and Day". Yea, this was the only movie i saw in theater in past one n half year. So, i had planned about watching a movie as soon as i come back home and so i did. I went to watch "Crook" today.

Crook comes from one of the most famous banners of India, The Bhatt Camp. Bhatt's have given some of the best of Indian movies of all time. Zakham being my personal favorite. They also work around the real issues in India or affecting Indians like they made a movie based on the flood that hit Mumbai about 4-5 years back. So this time too they went in to do something different.

Crook had made a lot of buzz around because of it's music. The movies has songs like "Challa" and "Mere Bina" which are already hits. Then, Emraan Hasmi is also very popular among the youth. So, i was expecting a good movie again from Bhatt Camp.

Cast

Emraan Hasmi, said to be the "Serial Kisser" of Indian movie fraternity. I like Emraan as an actor. He has done some really good movies. I especially liked him in his debut movie. He is also a product of NSD (National School of Drama)  which is supposed to be one of the best and many Indian great actors have been there like Nassir-ud-din Shah to name one.

Neha Sharma makes her debut with this movie. This is her first movie so went in with no opinion of her.

Arjan Bajwa, this is his second movie that i saw. Actually, i didn't even know that he was part of this movie till i saw him on screen. I also believe that the movie wasn't promoted well. I had good opinion of Arjan as an actor from his last movie. He was really good in the movie but his character wasn't one of the prominent characters of the movie and he had lesser footage.

Mohit Suri, has made some different kind of movies and which proved to be successful too. I think Murder was this most successful which also starred Emraan Hasmi, i we can deduct that Emraan hasmi has been kind of his lucky mascot and that's why we see them working together pretty frequently.

Plot

An Indian guy (Jai/Suraj) is shifted to Australia forcefully by his foster father, so that Jai can move away from the net of the bad people/mafia to which he was getting trapped.

Jai moves to Australia with a new name Suraj without any criminal records. He starts working for a guy as a cabbie. As suggested by his friend, he tries to not get into any illegal shit and also to get a PR (permanent residency) in Australia. As he starts spending his new life in Australia, he finds the Aussies being racist to Indian and beating them just because of their color. But he wants to stay away from the issue saying “that it’s not his war”. Eventually, he also falls in love with a girl who is working on getting Indians and Aussies to work together and to learn each others culture to kill the Racism issue. Even though Suraj tries hard of not getting involved but he does get into the shit.

How does he lands into the mess? What all he does to get out of it? Does he succeed in his plans? And many other questions are answered in the end.

Good Things

Music was certainly the high point of the movie. I liked the romantic moments in the movie which were really good. I loved the new comer/Debutant Neha Sharma in the movie. She was convincing in the character she portrayed. She looked innocent, cute, beautiful and sexy in different frames of the movie.

Emraan Hashmi has been a good performer and pulls a great performance in this character too. Same with Arjan Bajwa, who have really impressed me even though, this is just his second movie.

Bad Things

The script and the story line felt pretty weak. Would have loved the movie way more if only they had tried giving it a realistic touch. Discrimination on the base of color or nationality is a part of almost every nation which makes it such a great base for a movie but you do have to live up to the mark. The movie did try to chase a good topic but with a very filmy kind of attempt.

5/10 for me.

Anger All Around India

India is a big nation. By big, i mean its the 6-7 largest country, landscape wise. This makes it really difficult to run a nation like this big. Yes, we all are different. People in India say, "in India the taste of water changes every 4 miles and language changes in every 2 miles". This is to show the diversity in India. Some say this diversity is good, it is one the unique feature about India that we are so together and united even after so much of differences. But the same thing is also bad. Being a big democratic country and trying to satisfy or atleast meet every-bodies requirement isn't a easy job. And if even one is left out, anger and hatred is induced in the heart's of people. The width strains against the failing hate.

I don't think there is even a single state, out of the 28 we have, which can be described as perfect living conditions.

Hatred is all over India. Northern India is majorly affected by the terrorist activities across the border, blame it Pakistan, Taliban or any major Terrorist Community like Al Quaida or L-e-T. But those people are responsible for the agitation in Northern India.....especially Kashmir and Punjab. Some time, i feel till what time we'll fight for the question "Who own's Kashmir?" because obviously, we can't afford the causalities happening cause of it. I know, soilders are trained to die for their country but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything saving those lives.




Central or Middle India is affected by its own internal crimes. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh are the worst place to live, if you'll ask me. The crime rate, abduction's, contract killing, land Mafia, communal fights, killing of girl fœtus, rapes etc. You name it, they have it. I have lived in Uttar Pradesh and i know how bad it can be espcially be.





Eastern India is majorly affected by the naxalites. They aren't hurting local residents. Their fight is against the government who have deprived them from their fundamental Rights. They sabotage the government property and abducting government officials. They do have arms and always protect their living area by planting land mines around the area. They have killed many police personals and government perosnals too. They aren't affecting the people directly but the effect is there cause everybody is part of the same democracy.


Western India is all about religious riots. India's worst communal riots broke out here. It was an obvious religious riots between the Muslim's and Hindu's where many Muslim's were killed. One of the prime suspect of the riots was the current Chief Minister of the state. One of the fact about that planned riots was it was planned over a month. Hindu's did a census in the nearby area to count the number of Muslim families living by them and then on the day, it was massacre. People were burnt alive.



Southern India is driven more by discrimination. People in the Southern part of India are different culture wise. I mean even people of same religious belief living in North and South India will have differences and a lot of them. Also, you can say monetarily states here are in better situation. However, government scams and forgery is prominent here.

See, if you were thinking India is the best country in the world, well its not. But, still urge the people to come up and help me and yourself for the best of our community and country.

Jai Hind