Jacqualine Fernandes:: She was gorgeous and must improve on her acting skills to stay afloat in the industry. His blind-love for Jasmine was not fleshed out well. Ritiesh:: Would not say perfect for role but unwise to say miscast too. And in all honesty, at the cost of fulfilling the dream to work with their childhood matinée idol these newbies cannot justify/ utilise the opportunity of the goldmine. Well the stature Big B has reached, only he can afford to experiment with the roles. Ghosh, now I am pretty sure "Jhankaar Beats" was a fluke and goes to show the results of big decisions over a cuppa in a coffee shop! Big B:: Brandish is perhaps the only word that comes to my mind. Even the name of the town "Khwahish" gives away how ill-conceived the whole project was. The song in the climax was so very 1970/80's. The ragging of Alladin is sooooo "Oh nooooo". Having said that, have you heard of Baz Lurhmann? Fiction/ non-fiction or fantasy/ reality, by either benchmarks the use-up of first two wishes was a plain day-light robbery. Should have waited for Anurag's "Dev D" before kick-starting this project. Taking a classic and attempting to set it in the contemporary times, it takes a maverick to pull off the feat. The plot/ storyline is lame and wafer-thin. And with due respect, Alladin does deserve brownie points for the look and feel of the fairy-tale neatly complimented with the CGI. Hailing from the land of "Harry Potter" one was expecting Alladin nothing short of Bollywood's answer to Harry Potter/ LOTR. When he announced Aladin the expectations were riding sky-high on deliverables. Ghosh for his product which was innovative ( a la "Dil Chahta Hain" in its own right). Post "Jhankaar Beats" Sujoy Ghosh was the new whiz-kid on the block.
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