The man who wrote Shakalaka Boom Boom wrote a post on his blog titled ‘Shakalaka Fuck Fuck’ in which he publicly flogged himself for the crapfest. It’s a canny move — swallow your medicine and move on:

Nowhere to hide.. I can’t even say it was another Anurag kashyap.. the only other anurag kashyap is a 13 year old spelling bee champion… every time the promos come on air my daughter calls out to my maid and says, “shamsu.. papa ki picture” and i try and tell her don’t say it out loud..

Man, when they called it Shakalaka Boom 2, and said rahul nanda thinks the title will look good on the posters and all went YEAAAH, i should have walked out then…

before anyone says it to me, i break out with an apology.. sorry boss… Moral of the story — next time one does something like it make sure the fees is fifty lacs without [screenwriting] credit… [Link]

Other reviewers found the movie as entertaining as I did:

There’s so little difference between AJ’s music and Reggie’s music, it’s like the creator of ‘What Is Your Mobile Number‘ genuflecting to the talents of the man behind ‘You Are My Chicken Fry’…

… going deaf thanks to a glitter ball has to rank up there with going blind by surfing for porn. Besides, I don’t see why this counts as a bad end for AJ, because now he won’t have to listen to any more of Reggie’s hits, while we in the audience have no such luck…

Darshan is one of those directors whose work you have to be very careful about panning… You thought Barsaat was bad, and he followed it up with Dosti: Friends Forever… and suddenly Barsaat repositioned itself in your mind as a criminally underrated romance…. when I say Shakalaka Boom Boom is dreadful, what I really mean is that this rating stands only until Darshan’s next outing…

AJ attributes the failure [of his album] to the lack of proper publicity… with enough time on TV channels and with enough billboards on the roadsides, the album would have become a hit… And if the likes of Shakalaka Boom Boom succeed, that theory would really prove itself, wouldn’t it? [Link]

As soon I heard the Patel from the Univ. of Pennysylvania say “I’m a star” like a Martian who learnt to speak English from Shoaib Akhtar via Teleshopping Network, I knew Shakalaka Boom Boom would be an instant classic… [Link]

… the film that brazenly deep fries the Amadeus DVD spiced with Mithun’s classic Disco Dancer… [Link]

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