Speed - Notepad

This page has additional observations, other than the ones noted in the main review.

Warning: this section has some details that could distort your experience while watching the movie. I strongly recommend reading this only after you have seen the movie or if you have decided not to see it.

Plot Summary

Siddharth Verma (Sanjay Suri), a chef, and his wife Richa (Urmila Matondkar) are living happily with their son. But, there is a secret which is going to turn their lives topsy-turvy.

What did not

• I didn't realize "Speed" meant "low speed". Because that is how the movie starts: a song that sounds slow compared to its visuals. Why was the movie named "Speed" again?
• Was the fuzzy look in the long shots intentional? If so, I wonder why. Because, it looked shabby.
• I know there is this trend of having foreigners dance in the background for songs, it's supposedly cool. But, can't we find some who can dance well?
• There is this scene where Richa is on a cordless phone talking to someone and the villain cuts off a wire. The phone sounds an “engaged” tone. Now if that was a phone wire cut, how come there is an “engaged” tone? And if it was an electricity wire, the cordless phone wouldn't give out an engaged tone either.
• The career choices that women have to make! Richa looks like an electrical engineer, what with all the phone lines she can rework and people she can electrocute. But poor thing is a science teacher in an elementary school.
• Monica (Sophie Chaudhary) is looking at Siddharth (Sanjay Suri) on a monitor. Actual Siddarth is moving normally, but Siddharth on camera is moving in slow motion!
• Why were the villains scaring Richa? It's not like they were having her do anything for them.
• Aftab Shivdasani's dubbing was seriously off in some of the scenes.
• Can an Indian Prime Minister really give a British police officer an order contrary to instructions from his own officer-in-charge?
• Why does a vamp (Sophie) have to deliver every dialogue as if she is trying to seduce somebody?
• It is highly annoying to see characters go all emotional on each other bang in the middle of a situation where time is of the utmost importance and lives are supposedly at stake.
• Why did Kabir Khan (Aftab Shivdasani) not react when Sandeep (Zayed Khan) pulled the rope?

Nitty-Gritty

• It was really hilarious how the Prime Minister's group of assistants had the exact same number of women as there were bouquets to hold.
• Where did the car that Sanjana (Tanushree Dutta) arrived in at the stable vanish off?