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'JULIE' |
'JULIE'
[Beautiful mind, Bold profession]
Staring: Neha Dhupia, Priyanshu Chatterjee,
Story & Director by: Deepak Shivdasani
Producer: N.R. Pachisia
Music: Himesh Reshammiya
Lyrics: Sameer
Release Date: July 23, 2004
Average Rating: 4 of 5 |
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In the name of bold movies comes another flick that tries to cash in on this current trend. Deepak
Shivdasani, who has been a part of Bollywood for a long time now directs 'Julie', a movie about a prostitute played by Neha
Dhupia. 'Julie' has been a quickie in it's making and comes in the wake of Murder, Hawas and Girlfriend. Himesh
Reshammiya, from whom you expect some good Indian melodies, composes while regular Sameer writes. |
About the film, 'JULIE': The movie trailer shows Indian cinema connect towards sex arena, and now its becoming too much bold in such type of movies, just want to catch Hollywood, The movies like
'Jism', 'Murder',' 'Girlfriend' all are creating sex bomb and its exploit the younger generation and its very bad to see such type of movies with families, directors think and think what you think if you see this movie with your younger daughter or your wife. Nevertheless enjoyable film, and also good to watch with friends. Hope that it becomes a hit like other sexy films. A very HOT Neha in the movie 'Julie' seems to be quite bold after completion of her film.
'Julie' interestingly, is not about a brothel sex worker like in Mandi, not yet a beer bar dancer like Tabbu in
'Chandni Bar', not about a nightclub dancer like Priety Zinta in 'Chori
Chori' 'Chupke Chupke', not about a street worker like Kareen Kapoor in 'Chameli'. It explores the world of the high-class escorts, a trade that is indeed ruling the roost in most Indian Metros. |
Music:
Music: 'Hum Tumse Dil' sounds predictable to the core when heard first but gradually starts registering itself after being played a few times. A romantic love song by Udit Narayan and Anuradha
Paudwal,
'Dhadkan Ho Gayee' is melodious and is a step ahead of 'Hum Tumse Dil' in terms of being
hummable. Though the number is not exceptional, it is to the credit of Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik that they manage to make this average song sound pleasing.
After 'Kambakth Ishq', 'Ishq Kameena' and 'Ishq Khudaai' comes 'Ishq
Tezaab' !! Omigawd ! That's scary. The number is anything but hot acid ! Sunidhi Chauhan was never this cold while this composition by
Reshammiya.
Title song 'Julie' comes quite late in the day and tries to be quite 'sugar'n'sweet. Though Sonu Nigam tries his best and Jayesh Gandhi does a voiceover at places, the song is at best average again.
Towards the end comes a love duet 'Ae Dil Ye Bata' by Sonu Nigam and Alka
Yagnik, which is again very routine and has nothing great to offer.
'Bheegi Bheegi' is an addition to the list of previous two average songs and doesn't really excite much. Alka Yagnik too doesn't seem to be enjoying while singing this one while Himesh seems to have done a hurried job while composing this one. |
On the whole:
The association between Bollywood and the Sex workers profession has attained a new mainstream height - a whole lot of flesh, being marketed unabashedly under the one work named 'bold'. Director wants to depicting the profession of sex workers by making it more hard hitting and by adding layers of sex and titillation. 'Julie' does differ from other films on sex workers, is that the character doesn't take to prostitution under compulsion, rather on impulse after being betrayed by two
men |
