Team the force - Movie review

Cast: Sohail Khan, Yash Tonk, Vrajesh Hirjee, Amrita Arora, Sayaji Shinde, Mukesh Tiwari, Kulbhushan Kharbanda,

Director: Ajay Chandok

Music: Daboo Malik

Rating: Duh!
 
Ajay Chandok has had two releases before this and none of them has done any good to our health. So going to watch his third release was never something I fancied. But then, that’s a part of our job and we got to do it – without paying heed to all the hazards of facing PBMS (post bad movies syndrome).
 
Getting to watch Team was nothing more than an adventure. I had to go to the nearby multiplex to watch it because I missed the press show only to get to know that the show had been cancelled as not a single ticket was sold. The fate was same at another multiplex. However, I turned lucky (or shall I say unlucky for finally making it to the movie) as a few colleagues from the media joined in and we decided to watch the movie at a theatre as they too had skipped the press show. The show finally started ten minutes behind schedule. And ten minutes into the movie we were all set to walk out! We would have done it if we were not supposed to be ethical and judge it on the basis of the complete story. So we hanged on for over two hours of torture not knowing what to do; sometimes laughing at sad jokes and comments and sometimes at our own miserable state.
 
Team is an extremely badly written movie – something that could be kept at the script libraries for study, as a bad example of course. First half an hour of the movie is wasted on telling how Raj (Sohail Khan), Yash (Yash Tonk) and Jassi (Vrajesh Hirjee) are struggling to find work. They are apparently musicians who even shoot videos and hunt for hot babes for the video. The three are staying with a family who is kind enough to keep them without rent and even feeds them like family. And in between this we see outrageously choreographed and composed songs. And how these three are given money and car keys by the good landlord (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) to go somewhere and compose good music. And the three reach a cool location (passed off as Goa) to compose music. Only now does the actual plot come in as a don Raman Bhai (Sayaji Shinde) threatens to kill the landlord if he does not give away his bungalow to a builder. The three boys get back to teach the ‘bhai’ a lesson. Wonder what the use of the entire musician track was!
 
While the story does not make sense, the music makes it worse. In fact, except Sayaji Shinde, who does well at certain scenes, the movie has nothing that can be called good.
 
Overall, Ajay Chandok does not let us down on expectations. Simply put, Team - The Force is a pain to watch. The director, once-upon-a-time an assistant of David Dhawan, still seems to be hanging somewhere around mid 90s. You can obviously do great without it, Mr Chandok.