Jimmy

If you are of a certain age, and a Hindi film fan, you8217;re sure to remember Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy, aja , aja, aja, Mithun Chakraborty8217;s song-and-dance dhamaka this was way before item numbers came into being which catapulted him into the front ranks of Bollywood.

The fact that Mimoh, Mithun8217;s son, calls himself Jimmy in his debut movie is surely not a coincidence. But really, even the fondest fathers should have given themselves a pause before they handed out cult names, associated so strongly with them, to their offspring on a platter: this 8216;Jimmy8217; mangles all the good memories of the original Jimmy.

Mimoh, under the baton of old-timer Raj N Sippy, gets served up in a dish which was cold before the 80s gave out. It has, just for the record, a loving mother, a dead father, a clutch of villains, and a bad guy who wears a black trench-coat and a mask. But even if it had been a hip new age director, in a serviceable script, the results would have been the same: the straggly-haired first-timer has not even an iota of personality; he even, horrors, dances badly.

What could Mithun, who is still turning out award-winning parts, both in Hindi and Bangla films, have been thinking of?

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