The past couple of months I've been on kind of a movie marathon catching a Flick or two every weekend. While watching Men in Black I guess is when i caught the preview of Cocktails and boy was I hooked. The Promo portrayed the pic to be a slick stylish and fresh movie. different from the current movies that have been released so far. So convinced we were with the promos that my girlfriends and I decided to catch the movie as soon as it releases and so we did.
Today however sitting in the theater and actually watching Cocktail unfold before my eyes was a pretty traumatizing good three hours of my weekend. the starting fifteen minutes of the film were brazenly over the top and could have been better executed. Saif character Gautam was really far from the smooth operator orcasanova image the director wanted to portray him to be. His first few shots at the cafe, airport and then at work just stuck out like sore thumbs in the movie. Was just hoping that the whole movie wasn't like that and that we could get what we came to see. Alas there were no really magical moments that would set this specific film apart. There were a couple of light and humerus moments in the film which were the only life saviors from the entertainment quotient of the film.
Saif's comedy timing is perfect though and he was pretty bang on in that aspect however as far as the romance angle goes between Gautam and Meera I don't think that was well established and could really connect with the audience. I mean they practically fell in love during a song. At a point in the movie I really wasn't concerned what was to happen between the two. It just didn't matter or rather wasn't convincing enough. I guess Saif couldn't really add that right romantic twist in this Cocktail of three.
Diana Penty in her role as the simple Meera is pretty awkward throughout the movie again far from connects with the audience. Deepika's portrayal of Veronica on the other hand is what actually made the movie worth it. I am not a Deepika fan but I must say that Cocktail was all in all a Deepika movie and really exhibited the flexibility she has as an artist to play such a difficult role of Veronica. She literally held the whole movie together.
Final verdict, Cocktail was an amazingly well packaged, promisingly stylish, fresh flick that was aggressively marketed. Successful marketing was the only thing that drew the public to the theaters to watch this flick from content perspective nothing about Cocktail was money's worth. If you're thinking of catching this movie in the theaters I'd say you can take a miss and wait for it to be digitally broadcast-ed as its certainly not wasting your precious three hours even for passing your time.
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