London Dreams (2009)

London Dreams: Directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah. With Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn, Om Puri, Aditya Roy Kapoor. The story revolves around two childhood friends Arjun and Munnu who find a way to get from a small village in India to Wembley as Rock stars, having overcome their personalities.

“Whilst the film has an interesting enough premise the execution is pretty much diabolical.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWith the film being effectively developed over a ten year period, you would have thought that for a start the screenplay would have been a lot better. It really is weak with some barely creditable plot developments, which at times do chronically insult the viewer. I mean were they really serious about the last twenty minutes of the film? Atrocious!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film is horribly miscast. Ajay Devgan as a young man trying to get a break in the music business? Okay he tries, but really this needed one of the up and comers or a completely new face. Salman Khan is at his usual overacting worst here and fails to convince at any level. Poor Asin gets stuck with in a u0026quot;leadingu0026quot; role with basically nothing to do other than being the token shatteringly gorgeous love interest which for all the limited time on screen could have been competently handled by any number of Bollywood supporting actresses.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn a technical level there is not much horrendously wrong here, but it could and should have been so much better. The cinematography is good although the editing could have perhaps been a little tighter. Music was okay but not as good as it needed to be since it was the whole point of the film. Choreography was very average: I am still in two minds as to whether it should have been stripped out of the film completely or whether it needed to be more dazzling to support the music.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOverall London Dreams is a very large disappointment as it could and should have been so much better than what it ended up being. A hugely wasted opportunity.”