JointScene: After "Saawariya", composer Monty Sharma has struggled to deliver a hit soundtrack. He could have done it with his latest offering "Right yaa Wrong", but this time also he fails to spin any magic with his compositions.
The film, starring Irrfan Khan and Sunny Deol, contains six originals and one remixed version.
The soundtrack starts on a good note with "Meri aashaon ki". Sung by newcomer Amritraj, the free flowing romantic track is pleasing to the ears. The melodious number is slow-paced and grows on the listener and can be called the best song of the album.
Up next is "Lakhnavi kabab" by Master Saleem. This amalgamation of Indo-western influences is high on the beats of dhol and in between has a western angle with the inclusion of rap in some parts of thesong. There is nothing great about the composition and the lyrics.
"Lakhnavi kabab" also has a remixed version, which has more western beats and is faster in pace.
Then there is "Tiledar dupatta daale" that has Mika Singh and Shail behind the mike. A song with Punjabi touches, "Tiledar..." has nothing extraordinary and interesting about it. The beats make it a dance number, but it falls flat in terms of uniqueness and appeal.
Next is the title track of the film sung by Ujjaini Mukherjee. The song has philosophical lyrics and Ujjaini's voice is good, but the song fails to make an impact.
There is a male version of the song too, with vocals by Kunal Ganjawala.
Finally there is "Rihaee" by Kunal again. Strong beats and Kunal's trademark high pitched style mark the song. Nothing to look forward to.
On the whole, "Right Yaaa Wrong" is not one of the best works of the composer. Only one song is worth listening.
JointScene: After making forgettable appearances in movies like "Heroes" and "Fox", action star Sunny Deol is back again with "Right Yaaa Wrong". Releasing Friday, it is about two friends who turn foes in their quest for supremacy.
Written and directed by debutant Neeraj Pathak, the crime thriller has been produced by Subhash Ghai. Apart from Sunny, "Right Yaa Wrong" also stars Irrfan Khan, Eesha Koppikhar and Konkona Sen Sharma.
"It’s an entertainer with great performances by Sunny Deol and Irfaan Khan. I have seen Sunny in such a charged and dramatic role after a long time. He is just too good, though Irrfan has also done a great job. The songs are also very nice and I am sure it will be a super hit,” Ghai had said about the film.
“Right Yaaa Wrong” is the story of two cops - Ajay Shridhar (Sunny) and Vinay Patnaik (Irrfan). Their intense rivalry leads them on a battle for supremacy.
Ajay's wife (Eesha) is found brutally murdered and he is the prime suspect and the case is being handled by his friend, Assisstant Commissioner of Police Rane. And Radhika (Konkana), Vinay's younger sister, is Ajay's only support.
The investigation leads to a mystery locked with secrets. And all this ends up in an astonishing discovery.
Apparently Sunny and Ghai were at loggerheads over the completion and release of the movie as it was slated to come out in 2009.
With no major hits to his career after "Gadar - Ek Prem Katha" (2001), it is to be seen if "Right Yaaa Wrong" helps Sunny at the box office.
JointScene: Don't breathe. Don't dare even blink. And please forget that visit to the loo. Damn, even the bag of popcorn will be forgotten on your clenched lap.
'Right Yaaa Wrong' is the surprise shocker of the year. If you've forgotten that jump-out-of-the-seat feeling then it's time to nudge it awake again.
Debutant director Neerraj Pathak deserves a welcoming salute. He puts together a thriller that's as much a homage to Alfred Hitchcock and Brian de Palma as our own Abbas-Mustan.
'And Right Yaaa Wrong' still emerges original and strong.
An intricate jigsaw that always stays a step ahead of the audience, 'Right Yaaa Wrong' makes a penetrating comment on how the country's legal system can be subverted by a clever hand. More importantly the taut and briskly-paced script suggests that the yin and yang concepts of right and wrong are not only ambivalent but also interchangeable when the context is right.
Sunny Deol, back in shape in every which way, plays a cop who in the first two reels loses the power to walk. But the narration simply sprints along through a series of unpredictable twists and turns that take the striking characters across a maze of intrigue and conspiracy.
Truly, the screenplay is far superior to its execution. And that's entirely a comment on the above-average calibre of the writing.
Writers Girish Dhamija, Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan and Neerraj Pathak pack in a walloping punch in both pre-and post-interval hours.
The characters and their motivations address themselves to adventure-thriller-suspense world of James Hadley Chase and Sidney Sheldon. The men are brave and heroic, clever and fearless. Even when cuckolded, Deol is dignified in the embrace of betrayal.
Editor Ashfaq Makrani juxtaposes moments of tense suspense with glimpses of heightened poignancy. This is murder in mellow shades.
The cop's wife played by Esha Koppikar is unabashedly wanton. Outwardly she's the duty-bound cop's home-bound wife with a perfect home and cute son (Ali Haji). Scratch the surface and there emerges a woman who's sleeping with the cop's kid-brother. Ouch.
Shades of Bipasha from Abbas-Mustan's Race? Yes? But don't let this hectic whodunit's antecedents bother you. The storytelling takes wings from the word go. And we are swept ahead. As the characters go from 'bed' to worse. However the people in Pathak's pacy plot are so hurriedly propelled to their nemesis that we never get close enough to any of them to understand their inner world.
The depths are discarded for the dips and curves. The performances are even and well-informed. Sunny Deol in a role that requires him to sublimate his pain in a status of stoicism gets it just right. Irrfan creates ample space for himself in a role that's sketchy for starters but gathers substance as the yarn progresses.
Konkona Sen Sharma as the stereotypical sympathetic shoulder gets rid of her set expressions and comes up with a performance of restrained bravura in the courtroom.
And Esha Koppikar plays the thankless role of the unfaithful wife and a disgraceful mother with much relish.
Here's a film that extends the borders of morality. It does so in the commercial language without resorting to crass situations and dialogues. For fans of Sunny Deol's fist-friendly image here's the actor telling us that strength is sometimes a matter of holding back rather than letting it all hang out.
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