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Drive movie review: Sushant Singh Rajput’s Fast & Furious clone is one of Netflix’s worst mistakes ever

Drive movie review: sushant singh rajput and jacqueline fernandez star in a cheap imitation of fast & furious, which has to be one of netflix india’s worst mistakes ever..

Drive Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Jacqueline Fernandez, Boman Irani, Pankaj Tripathi Director: Tarun Mansukhani

Drive movie review: Sushant Singh Rajput and Jacqueline Fernandez in still from Netflix’s new original film.

The only reason Drive exists is because someone watched all the Fast & Furious films, ended the binge with Ocean’s Eleven and Italian Job and thought ‘If they could do it, so can I’. How the idea was bought by a studio as market-savvy as Dharma is something we will never know. However, they cut their losses in time and wriggled out of a theatrical release, handing it off to Netflix instead.

The Sushant Singh Rajput and Jacqueline Fernandez movie now joins the ranks of Chopsticks and Brij Mohan Amar Rahe – films that leave you wondering if the execs of streaming giant were having an off day or if the problem lies deeper.

Things are so dire that you know from the first shot that this is one drive you should have avoided. It begins in the worst way possible – with an in-your-face product placement and a cut-price Fast & Furious feel to it. Blondes dancing in hot pants and shirtless men showing off their six-packs as cars vroom around them – you get the picture.

Jacqueline Fernandez rules over this hub when she is not plotting heists. The ‘kachra’ in her engine is a man called King who is out-heisting her, and if good caper films are anything to by – without much finesse. Her latest plan involves a robbery in Rashtrapati Bhawan where an unscrupulous Director of Monetary Restrictions (Vibha Chibber) – now that sounds like a post-demonetisation designation, but I digress – and her deputy Hamid (Pankaj Tripathi) have hidden their ill-gotten gains. However, PMO is onto King and has put their best man on the job, Irfan (Boman Irani).

All good caper films are a combination of plot finesse and suavity. Heist films, as a genre, come with their implausibilities – you admire the good ones for them, the terrible ones grate. In all the double-crossing and triple-crossing, Drive drops quite a few beats. While there are some moments of thrill where you are truly invested in the film, they are so rare that you marvel when they come.

What’s up with Sushant’s smug, pouty expressions?

However, it is in the suavity department that Drive is truly lacking. Sushant – who has some truly good performances to his name – has a smug, pouty expression stuck on his face throughout Drive. Try as he might, he just cannot wipe that off and start acting. Jacqueline simply doesn’t have the acting chops to carry off the Mata Hari role makers have dreamt up for her. Pankaj and Boman try but realize somewhere in the middle that the effort is just not worth it.

But then, why should they put in all the work when everyone is having a ball. The lyrics and dialogues appear to have been written in English and when they couldn’t find anyone who can speak passable Hindi, they dialed for Google Translate. There is a song called ‘Karma Badi Kameeni Hai’ whose literal English translation ‘Karma is a B**ch’ may actually ring a bell. Then Sushant mouths this stilted ‘Mujhpar kissi ka adhikaar nahi hai’; why not make him say ‘Nobody owns me’ and be done with it?

The film’s CGI is real deal-breaker. The moment Drive steps on the gas and chases kick in, the film starts looking like a bad video game. The only response to the god-awful visual effects could be helpless laughter. The stakes are so low that Drive never recovers – especially as they come at what are supposed to be the most thrilling moments in the film. The fact that there are scenes ‘inspired’ by Fast & Furious does not help. While I cannot give you more without ruining the moments, you will know when you see them and then rue the discount version.

Drive is a lot like the name of its villain – terribly dated. You could build up men named King when they were fighting off others called Lion (or, to be precise, Loin). The film, with its gyrating blondes and street racing, is trying so hard to be the uber-cool racing-heist film but its soul is stuck in the 80s. If it has a soul, that is.

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Drive movie review: Sushant and Jacqueline's prettiness and an under-par heist come wrapped in awful SFX

At first it does seem like Drive might prove to be an entertainer but the narrative, like the special effects, steadily declines as the film progresses.

Language: Hindi

Rating: 1/2 star

So it is here at last: the first direct-to-Netflix release by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions.

Produced by KJo, written and directed by Tarun Dostana Mansukhani, starring Sushant Singh Rajput and Jacqueline Fernandez, Drive is a thriller that follows the tried-and-tested pattern of a heist within a heist within a heist. Film industries across the world have explored this genre to fun effect. India’s Hindi film industry a.k.a. Bollywood proved that it has the chops for wheels-within-wheels-within-wheels crime back in 1978 with the iconic Don starring Amitabh Bachchan, more recently with Abbas Mustan’s Race in 2008 and the SRK-Farhan Akhtar Don films in 2006 and 2011.

The very least you would expect after seeing the poster, the credits of Drive and reading its summary is that it would deliver spadefuls of excitement, pretty people in pretty clothes and swish special effects. Well, lower those expectations right away.

Sure, Rajput and Fernandez look hot in the film, both have tremendously fit bodies, and if you think back on the story, the original concept probably had the potential to become a slick cops-and-robbers drama. At first it does seem like Drive might prove to be an entertainer but the narrative, like the special effects, steadily declines as the film progresses. The SFX are overall so downmarket that it is hard to believe Drive comes to us from Dharma, whose signature for at least two decades has been glossy visuals.

Not that anything else in the film is of high calibre. Well suited to the SFX are the generic storytelling style, the overall ordinary production quality, inconsistent audio, a stand-out acting loophole and glaring lack of logic that, among other things, translates into Delhi roads – notorious in reality for their traffic jams – obligingly emptying themselves out to accommodate high-speed car races and chases at all times of day and night.

The reason why Drive is set in India’s capital city is because a robbery is being planned in Rashtrapati Bhavan. The primary players in this game are a group of car racing aficionados, an outsider who infiltrates their inner circle, a criminal known simply as King – you know, like Don in Don – and corrupt bureaucrats.

The opening race in Drive is reasonably well done, the song ‘n’ dance that follows is kinda nicely choreographed by Adil Shaikh, and Jacqueline Fernandez has some cute moves in it. From then on it is a downhill descent.

Gaping gaps in the plotline recede into the background in the face of ordinary car chases that routinely look plastic and an embarrassingly low-brow extended climax that feels like the work of an entry-level animation student. Lightning McQueen’s universe appeared more real than the vehicles and roads in several of this film’s scenes.

Much has been made of the fact that a portion of Drive was filmed in Israel, making it the first Bollywood venture to be shot there. The media has reported that the film was also partly funded by that country’s government . The true mystery here is why the Israeli sarkar thought this film would be a good ad for them in India. Be assured that what Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna is to New York City or Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is to Spain, Drive is absolutely not to Tel Aviv. At best the city is treated like the geographical equivalent of an ‘item’ number chucked mindlessly into a bad Bollywood film – it springs up out of the blue and it has no relevance whatsoever to the storyline.

In the face of such mediocrity, analysing the screenplay almost feels pointless. But a job is a job, so consider this. Without giving anything away let us just say the only way the masterplan revealed in the climax of Drive could possibly have worked is if no one in Rashtrapati Bhavan’s entire security department checked a critical character’s ID carefully for several days.

Granted that this point arises only in retrospect, and granted that this person could have had the world’s top creator of fake IDs backing them, so instead consider this question that comes up quite early in the film. (Some people may consider this paragraph a spoiler) The loot could not have been where it was unless other critical characters managed to easily beat the security system in the Indian President’s residence for what must have been months, if not years. If you have visited Rashtrapati Bhavan and experienced the tight restrictions in place in the complex, you would know how ridiculous this is. How the crooks aced the system is never explained, we are simply expected to accept that they did because we are told so. (Spoiler alert ends)

Or consider this. Person X says in the end that they were expecting to be deceived by Person Y. But in an earlier scene when X realised they had been double-crossed by Y, the facial expression – clearly visible in close-up – is one of shock and not at all “oh well, I knew this was coming”.

Or this. In a key scene in Drive , a quartet of cars zips through an airport runway and the occurrence seems not to be a blip on the radar of Air Traffic Control (ATC), the local police or the news media at that point or for the two months that the story continues. This writing laziness is intentional – having ATC, the police and press notice the breach would have been too much of an inconvenience since it could have meant the kingpins of the gameplan being discovered before the writer wanted them to be, you see.

Or consider this. Snazzy cars with the words “Delhi Police” emblazoned on them zoom about the city, offering evidence of how little the team of Drive knows the reality of the capital’s ill-equipped force.

As for the acting, well, Pankaj Tripathi does lend a Pankaj Tripathi touch to his character, but really, how is one to seriously and fairly critique the performances in such a film?

For a moment let us set aside thoughts of the cast though, and Johar, Netflix and Israel. Let us take that moment to mourn the fact that this sub-standard action flick has been made by the same director who gave us Dostana , which, notwithstanding its resemblance to a Hollywood film, was, in its own way, pathbreaking in the Indian social context. From Dostana to Drive is such a fall.

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Drive Movie Review: This Netflix Film Is A Cat-And-Mouse Game Played Out Like A Cartoon

Director: Tarun Mansukhani

Cast: Jacqueline Fernandez, Sushant Singh Rajput, Boman Irani, Pankaj Tripathi

Streaming on: Netflix

In the first few minutes of Drive , Jacqueline Fernandez playing Tara, gets out of a car. You've seen this shot countless times before. It's the standard-issue star entry. You see the high heels and shapely calf first and then the rest of her. For the next few seconds, she just stands there, resting against the car, with the wind blowing her hair like a shampoo model. The film is actually pausing to let you take in how sexy she is. But Tarun Mansukhani who has written and directed Drive , thinks your IQ is as low as that of his film. Because right after, a character walks up to Tara and says: yeh kehna mushkil hai ki tum zyada sexy ho ya tumhari driving.

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Subtlety is not Drive 's forte. Neither is clarity, characterization, coherence or anything else that any reasonable person requires in their entertainment. There isn't much entertainment either. As I watched, I wondered: how did this film get made? Perhaps Tarun and producer Karan Johar conceived it as Fast and Furious meets Ocean's 11 ? Did Jacqueline, who is required here to pose and pout, think this might make for a solid popcorn movie? She also gets to do a song that has the lyrics, " karma badi kamini hai " – helpfully subtitled on Netflix as "Karma is a bitch." And what was Sushant Singh Rajput thinking? The usually reliable actor is doing odd things with his lips and grinning a lot – I think this is supposed to play as cool but his smugness comes off as silly. There's also Boman Irani and Pankaj Tripathi – all I can say is, I hope they got paid well.

Until now, my bar for bad heist movies was Anubhav Sinha 's Cash . I had forced my mother to see it with me and she kept asking, "Yeh kaun kiski chori kar raha hai?" But Drive sets a new standard for absurdity. The plot centers on some 890 crores of cash and gold, stored in the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The loot belongs to a corrupt government official. An infamous thief, only known as King, wants to steal it. This sounds like fun right? Wrong. We get split screens, a countdown, lots of slow-motion strutting and posturing and some terrible CGI. We also get some choice dialogue – In one scene, a character says, " Hamein rapid response team ki zaroorat hai and really fast." In another, someone instructs: ab chori ka sabse important part, bahar nikalne ka rasta. It's a cat-and-mouse game, played out like a cartoon.

We get some choice dialogue – In one scene, a character says, " Hamein rapid response team ki zaroorat hai and really fast."

The bummer is that it doesn't even get to that delirious sort of cheesiness which makes it so bad that it's good. Or perhaps the platform doesn't let it achieve those heights. When you see a bad film in the theater, you stay committed – at least I never walk out of films. You're trapped so when a film is sufficiently bad, you start to enjoy the awfulness. It becomes funny. But with Netflix, you can simply switch it off. So the opportunity for reveling in the glorious foolishness that Hindi cinema throws up doesn't arise.

The moral of the story is that Netflix needs to have better quality control. And Tarun, who gave us lots to enjoy in his last film Dostana , should perhaps go back to the drawing board.

Drive Movie Review: The Sushant Singh Rajput Jacqueline Fernandez starrer DRIVE gives a déjà vu of many other films in this genre and fails to impress on account of confusing and unconvincing plot.

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DRIVE has now finally got a release, that too on an OTT platform. As a result, there’s a lot of negativity surrounding the film. So is DRIVE really as disappointing as believed? Or does it turn out to be a fine entertainer? Let’s analyse.

DRIVE is the story of a group of thieves planning the biggest heist of the country. Tara (Jacqueline Fernandez) runs a courier company in Delhi and specializes in illegal transfers for criminals. She is aided in this by Bikki (Vikramjeet Virk) and Naina (Sapna Pabbi). The trio, besides indulging in street racing, are also focused on finding a thief named King (Sushant Singh Rajput). He operates alone and robs in style. After stealing, he leaves the name of the place where he would next make the heist. After robbing a jewellery store, he hints that his next target is Rashtrapati Bhavan! Irfan (Boman Irani) from the PMO gets startled on getting this information. He teams up with Vibha Singh (Vibha Chibber), director of the monetary restrictions department and his junior, Hamid (Pankaj Tripathi) in ensuring that King doesn’t come to rob what is the most secured and one of the most important institutions in the country. King however bumps into Tara, Bikki and Sapna and after he finds them trustworthy, King tells them about his real identity. At the same time, Tara also expresses her wish of robbing Rashtrapati Bhavan for a special reason. She has found out that Vibha takes a 40% cut from those on whom she initiates a raid. After getting her share, she gives the accused a clean chit. Vibha has discovered a secret chamber in Rashtrapati Bhavan where she has stashed all the unaccounted wealth. Tara wants King’s help in robbing this hidden treasure. However, the security at Rashtrapati Bhavan is unparalleled. The aim is to enter the palace, dodge the security and CCTV cameras, locate the loot and take it out of the Bhavan. What happens next forms the rest of the film.

Tarun Mansukhani's story is poor and is a bhel puri of various films like RACE, DHOOM, FAST & FURIOUS, OCEAN’S ELEVEN, SAAHO and even Karan Johar’s earlier forgettable film, UNGLI. Tarun Mansukhani's screenplay doesn’t make the desired impact as it’s very difficult to comprehend. There are twists and turns every 10-15 minutes but instead of adding to the film’s charm, it ends up getting on viewers’ nerves. Tarun Mansukhani's dialogues are simple and straight forward.

Tarun Mansukhani's direction is nothing great. He tries to do an Abbas-Mustan but fails miserably. The film lacks emotional touch. You don’t really root for any character as you don’t feel for them. A bit of Tara’s past is hinted at but that’s about it. A few developments are bewildering. The track of Arjun (Anuj Jain) is difficult to understand, especially how he managed to get into Tara’s gang. Surprisingly, Tara and his team don’t kick him out despite knowing that he’s an undercover officer! The flow of narrative is also fractured by two songs. Shockingly, the 'Makhna' song comes up all of a sudden. For no rhyme or reason, Tara and the gang head to Israel. No explanations given! The makers, at the most, could have added a voiceover of Tara telling her gang that they should take a break for a few days but alas!

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DRIVE starts on a fair note. The beginning scene instantly reminds of FAST & FURIOUS’s street racing scenes. But there’s a nice surprise as one expects the winning driver of the race to be Sushant. Instead, it’s Jacqueline who emerges from the car. The way King hoodwinks Tara’s men at the jewellery store and how he gets the seized car back from the cop also keeps the interest going. The trouble starts soon enough as the film gets too complicated or too unconvincing. The second half is focused on the gang trying to rob the treasure from Rashtrapati Bhavan. The manner in which they easily get access to the place is very hard to believe. Also, the various twists and turns instead of impressing viewers end up confusing them. A lot of questions remain unanswered till the very end.

Sushant Singh Rajput fails to give his best. In scenes where he is supposed to give the see-I-am-so-smart cool smile, he ends up looking quite awkward. Jacqueline Fernandez in fact is much better. She looks convincing as the leader of the gang. Moreover, she also exudes considerable oomph. Vikramjeet Virk does well, as per his character requirement. Sapna Pabbi has a great screen presence and acts well. Boman Irani is dependable as always. Pankaj Tripathi is apt for the part and even raises few laughs. Vibha Chibber suits the character. Same goes for Kaustubh Kumar (Raj). Anuj Jain is hardly there. Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal (Inspector Rathore) is decent.

Music suits the mood of the film but doesn’t have a shelf life. 'Karma' , played in the opening credits, is the best of the lot. 'Makhna' is forced into the film. Same goes for 'Prem Pujari' . 'Black Car' and 'Tu Jaanta Nahi' are relegated to the background and are forgettable. Qaran's background score is stylish.

Vishal Sinha's cinematography is sans complaints. But in the Israel scene, the lensman should have captured the beauty rather than just going for BTS-style camerawork. Parichit Paralkar's production design is quite good. He had a challenging task at hand as he had to ensure that the sets resemble the various rooms and chambers of Rashtrapati Bhavan. In that regard, he succeeds in most parts. Fluiidmask Studios' VFX, however, is very tacky and fake. Stefan Richter and Vikram Dahiya's action is nothing great. The film ideally should have had more in the name of action other than just car chase scenes. Samidha Wangnoo's costumes are very rich and appealing, especially the ones worn by Jacqueline and Sapna. Tarun Mansukhani's editing is average.

On the whole, DRIVE gives a déjà vu of many other films in this genre and fails to impress on account of confusing and unconvincing plot. Avoidable

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Directed by Tarun Mansukhani

A notorious thief allies with a street racer for a grand heist involving an elaborate game of deceit with authorities, who have their own dirty secrets.

Sushant Singh Rajput Jacqueline Fernandez Vikramjeet Virk Sapna Pabbi Boman Irani Pankaj Tripathi Shweta Nair Vibha Chibber Bikramjeet Kanwarpal Paniza Rahnama

Director Director

Tarun Mansukhani

Producers Producers

Karan Johar Hiroo Johar

Writer Writer

Story story, casting casting.

Himalaya Agrawal Panchami Ghavri

Editor Editor

Deepa Bhatia

Cinematography Cinematography

Vishal Sinha

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Prashant Thakur

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Stefan Richter Simon Van Lammeren Vikram Dahiya

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Amartya Rahut Tanishk Bagchi

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Himani Bhatia Sanjana Shah

Dharma Productions

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Digital PG13 Netflix

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Drive Movie Review: Sushant Singh Rajput, Jacqueline Fernandez's Film Runs On Empty

Drive movie review: this rough and rash thriller has the power to drive even the most undemanding bollywood fan up the wall with its insipid mix of speed, greed and wild goose chases..

<i>Drive</i> Movie Review: Sushant Singh Rajput, Jacqueline Fernandez's Film Runs On Empty

Cast: Jacqueline Fernandez, Sushant Singh Rajput, Vikramjeet Virk, Boman Irani and Pankaj Tripathi

Director: Tarun Mansukhani

Rating: 1 Star ( out of 5)

The world has been waiting for a second film from Tarun Mansukhani, the director of Dostana , for over a decade now. It is finally here, but it has gone straight to Netflix, the first-ever Dharma Productions film to do so. Written and directed by Tarun Mansukhani, Drive is a film that runs on empty. It bears absolutely no resemblance to Nicholas Winding Refn's film of the same name, which fetched the Danish filmmaker the best director prize in Cannes in 2011. This one has ‘what-a-waste' written all over it. It should have stayed in the cans.

Drive , streaming from today, is a rough and rash thriller that has the power to drive even the most undemanding Bollywood fan up the wall with its insipid mix of speed, greed and wild goose chases. It is the sort of film in which an array of picture vehicles has no trouble in putting the human actors in the shade. A sizeable percentage of the film's principal characters are either street car racers in their mean machines or are people who nurture the ambition to jump on to the bandwagon.

These speed fiends operate out a warehouse in Delhi. The first few sequences of the film revolves around them as a few of them go for a spin from India Gate to Chhatarpur. Drive , from the word go, swerves well away from the style and substance of the older Ryan Gosling starrer (it was based on a bestselling novel by James Sallis and adapted by the British-Iranian screenwriter Hossein Amini) and opts for unabashedly featherbrained methods in an attempt to whip up excitement. No matter what this film puts on the screen, it only adds to the repetitive ruckus.

A still from Drive .

The Drive cast is led, mostly astray, by Sushant Singh Rajput and Jacqueline Fernandez. It would, however, be unfair to pin the blame for where this shoddy film ends up on the shoulders of the lead pair alone. The roles are written sans a shred of imagination and the situations conjured up with the aim of delivering thrills only succeed in sending the film towards dead-ends. As one character says of another: he sends us in one direction and then goes the other way. He might as well have been speaking of the film itself. Even actors like Boman Irani and Pankaj Tripathi, who float around like a pair of feckless gumshoes, are at their wit's end in this atrocious action drama about thieves who plan a heist in Rashtrapati Bhavan. Yes, Rashtrapati Bhavan!

But why must Fernandez choose only to strut instead of walk like a normal human being? Or what is the idea behind Sushnat Singh Rajput wearing a perpetually boyish smirk all through the film? Are the actors trying to tell us something? Unfortunately, the wall between what the characters are doing and what the audience is expected to grasp is very high – and thick. Nothing seeps through.

Late in the film, here is what the hero says to the heroine: "I had full faith in you; I knew you would betray me." There is little love lost between them but they do, in what at that precise point seems like a sign of weakness, seal a deal with a kiss. Indeed, that is what the game is between the two principal players on the one hand, and between the duo and a bunch of bumbling pursuers who want to catch them red-handed before they can get to a stash of cash hidden in a secret chamber of President's House.

The money – it adds up, we are told, to 890 crore rupees – is the ill-gotten wealth amassed by Vibha Singh, head of a body called Monetary Restrictions Authority. She takes a 40 per cent cut from high-value tax evaders to give them a clean chit and spirits away the payouts into a vault that only one other person in her office – her right-hand man Hamid (Pankaj Tripathi) – is aware of.

One fine day, Vibha Singh receives a call from the Prime Minister's office instructing her to work with a guy called Irfan (Boman Irani) on an operation to nab a mysterious robber, King, who after he robs a bank, a government facility or a jewellery store, leaves behind a calling card indicating the site of his next raid. Rashtrapati Bhavan is now on King's radar, Irfan announces.

The already messy film takes a turn for the worse from here on as silly plans are made, deals are struck and dimwitted robberies are attempted. Amid the hurly-burly, the details cease to matter and the spectacle of unbridled stupidity takes over. In the end, we find ourselves watching four red sports cars zooming up and down an airport runway. A passenger plane about to take off narrowly misses one of the vehicles, while two other cars screech to a stop tantalizingly short of overrunning incomplete flyovers.

Drive is a full-on Bollywood flick. It has a complement of musical set pieces: an item song featuring the heroine, a nightclub number and a dance to mark the wedding of two of the heroine's trusted aides – Bikki (Vikaramjeet Virk) and Naina (Sapna Pabbi). Do not ask what these two hangers-on are in the mix for.

Drive is so utterly pointless that one wonders why on earth it is on a streaming platform. That is a mystery. It will take some doing to crack. In the meantime, steer clear!

( Drive streams on Netflix from November 1)

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