Movie review: Entertainment
Akshay Kumar’s Entertainment |don’t waste your time on it
Film: Entertainment
Director: Sajid, Farhad
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Tammannah Bhatia, Mithun Chakraborty, Krushna Abhishek, Prakash Raj, Sonu Sood
Release on: 08 August 2014
Storyline: Akhil Lokhande (Akshay Kumar) just has one aim in life: he wants to earn enough money to ‘prove his worth, which will in turn, impress his girlfriend’s (Tammannah Bhatia) father (Mithun Chakraborty). That is, till he gets the news that he is the son of a multi-millionaire diamond merchant. Akhil’s troubles don’t end here: his father has inherited all his property to a dog, called Entertainment!
Akshay Kumar’s latest film Entertainment, which also stars Tammanah Bhatia, was promoted as a ‘masala’ entertainer’ you just cannot afford to miss. Take our advice, don’t waste your time on it.
The film fails on several levels, and there’s nothing remotely entertaining in this film.
This is where the drama unfolds: in the first half of the film, Akshay’s fighting the dog, and post-interval, he is fighting for the dog.
The trouble is, even before we are allowed to sympathise with Akshay’s poverty, he plunges into his fight for money. Not that there is much of a fight.
And with just one leap (literally), Akshay changes his mind from considering Entertainment as his sole enemy to a brother!
Entertainment could very well have been one of those rare films on animals which Bollywood has been hankering for a long time. Sadly, there is not much of it.
What it shows is some dogs, weird tricks to fight them, and even weirder tricks with which they fight back. No, this one ain’t for pet lovers either.
If there is any bright spark in the film, it is comedian Krushna Abhishek (of Comedy Circus fame). If you like his kind of comedy, you can sit through this mindless ‘entertainment’. Krushna does not go out of his way or has much at his hand, but this is what he is loved for and he does it well — slapstick comedy with innane, Bollywood references.
Even if a film is not a great piece of art, it should be entertaining. This one fails in both aspects.
