Sunday (2008/I)

Director:

Rohit Shetty

Writers:

Robin Bhatt (screenplay)
Robin Bhatt (story)

Release Date:

25 January 2008 (India)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

A woman investigates the mystery of what happened on a certain Sunday if her life that she has lost all recollection of...

Plot Keywords:

Discotheque | Police | Politician | Day In Title | Cab Driver

Cast

Ajay Devgan	...	ACP Rajveer Randhava
Ayesha Takia	...	Sehar Thapar
Arshad Warsi	...	Ballu
Irrfan Khan	...	Kumar Mangat
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Farid Amiri	...	Pardunam 'P.O.K.' Om Kumar
Ali Asghar	...	Raj Khurana's son
Aseem Bajaj	...	Rammi
Ravi Gossain	...	Hiren
Vrajesh Hirjee	...	Chakki - Martial Arts Instructor
Tusshar Kapoor	...	Himself ... Song performance
Ashish R. Mohan	...	Hercules
Deepak Qazir	...	Raj Khurana - Member of Parliament
Avtar Sahani	...	Traffic cop
Happy Sharma	...	Dhawal
Murli Sharma	...	Mysterious stranger
Anjana Sukhani	...	Ritu
Mukesh Tiwari	...	Havaldar Anwar
Sherveer Vakil	...	Aseem Bajaj

Runtime:

135 min

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Australia

Company:

Big Screen Entertainment

Trivia:

Inside joke - The names of the loony characters in the movie are named after people in the crew. The tongue-tied thug is called Aseem Bajaj, same as Director of Photography. Irrfan Khan is called Kumar Mangal, a play on Kumar Mangat the producer of the movie.

Movie Connections:

Remake of Anukokunda Oka Roju (2005)

Watch "Sunday" only on Sunday when you are Free

I hardly criticize any movie, and this is one of them. Although Sunday is not exactly a comedy but it's hilarious scenes are not that impressive, but instead irritating and boring. Of course Rohit has his own methods and ideas of making a comedy movie, but in the sense that I am an audience - I cannot remark him positively like Priyadarshan or David Dhawan. The reason is that whenever I sit to watch either Dhawan or Priyadarshan's comedy movie I get exhausted of laughing and sometimes I need to drink water to feel free again. Whereas for Rohit Shetty's comedies, instead of getting laughed I get irritated. His previous comedy Golmaal was more useless with an absence of proper subject. There all the characters seemed stereotypically like dummies. This time it has a little bit of subject, still then it really fails to touch (or win) the heart.

In the beginning I considered and was shocked seeing Ajay Devgan as a corrupted ACP, but later for her love's sake he avoids it and so I could breathe freely. The title of the movie also seems too odd, although it is based on the story. Rohit has a good understanding with Ajay for which he has taken him even in his third venture after Zameen and Golmaal. After watching Sunday one more thing I cannot determine in Bollywood - why they make all the action scenes like using robots in place of human being? Therefore, it is 50 years backward from Hollywood.

Rohit Shetty is much advanced and unique in making action and thriller movies rather than comedies which he did in his debut Zameen. It was superbly made with a true subject on terrorism and its problems with Kashmir and Pakistan. That's why I cannot imagine as Sunday is made by Rohit Shetty again, because it is too far in standard and maturity as compared to Zameen. I could only be impressed by some cases where the true nature of corrupted police and politicians (in climax) are explained with good examples. The chemistry between matured Ajay and childish typed Ayesha is really worse, even her case with John Abraham in No Smoking. She looks like their younger sister and not girlfriend. Undoubtedly I really give a good *star to Arshad Warshi and Irfan Khan for their every step improvements in performing comedian role. In others' cases I have nothing to point out. That's it!!!