Forget three wishes, just grant me one! O genie of the fabled magic lamp, please rid Bollywood filmmakers of the incurable habit of mechanically cramming their films up with song after song, with no rhyme, rhythm or reason. For that’s one of the blunders director Sujoy Ghosh commits in Aladin. A fantasy flick needs to keep the momentum building continuously with minimal possible, if not none, diversions. But in ‘Aladin’, lo and behold! song after song keeps popping up. You dodge, you duck, you doze off, but the songs keep coming. Okay, I know it’s a Bollywood film and Amitabh Bachchan as the genie must shake his leg in his introductory scene and Ritesh Deshmukh and Jacqueline Fernandez must get jiggy while falling in love, and Sanjay Dutt too must have a song. But mercy! Even as the film trots to its climax…slam!…a song is squeezed in? Discounting the average compositions of Vishal-Shekhar, the movie also ends up contemporizing the tale of the orphaned urchin Aladdin from Arabian nights into a confusing, tangled mess of too many subplots, not all of which are neatly tied up.Aladin lives a miserable life, as his friends bully him into rubbing every lamp in town. During one of his birthday’s he’s gifted a lamp from Jasmine, his gorgeous classmate. And voila, out comes Genius, who grants him 3 wishes. While Aladin uses all his wishes to win Jasmine’s love, the evil Ringmaster, in search of the lamp, prepares to kill him.

The first half starts off well with light moments involving Riteish Deshmukh, but soon after Genius makes an appearance, the movie begins to drag. Songs after ever reel act as major speed-breakers. Seriously, those songs in the pre interval portions add zero value; instead just add up to the run time and boredom. While Sujoy Ghosh has handled the light hearted first half with brilliance, it’s the second half - the battle of the good over evil - when the movie goes from good to bad and eventually hits an all time low with a terrible climax.The director also seems to be confused over the genre. What stars off as a fantasy film of an underdog, quickly turns into a stretched romantic comedy with song - dance routines and eventually a good vs. evil battle. In an effort to please both masses and classes, children and adults, Sujoy Ghosh ends up satisfying none.

Visual effects are top notch, music by Vishal and Shekhar is average.Amitabh Bachchan’s performance gets too loud and irritating after the initial reels. Riteish Deshmukh lacks the exuberance, charm and energy required for the character. Quick tips from Hrithik on his Rohit act in Koi Mil Gaya would have helped. Jacqueline is beautiful, but her role offers her little scope to make an impact. Sanjay Dutt is hardly there.

To sum up, Aladin is high on Visual effects and low on substance. One more to the long list of Bollywood fantasy disasters.

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