![]() Now, Christine is a jealous killer car who takes hold of Arnie. The story revolves around unpopular highschool kid Arnie, his best friend, girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine. Stephen King's 'Christine' wasn't his most popular novel but it was certainly a creepy read. Based loosely on Stephen King’s 'Christine', the film was visionary at the very least. But if director duo Abbas-Mustan and writers Lalit and Sunny Mahajan are going to credit themselves with anything in relation with the film, it’s the inventiveness. The nostalgia doesn’t make the movie a better one, Ayesha Takia’s debut is still haunted by the ghost of the film’s release, Vatsal Sheth was placed in one too many cringe-worthy scenes and God help those visuals. Having said that, I’m guessing Taarzan: The Wonder Car has some nostalgic strings attached to it. And maybe, you can’t get Himesh Reshammiya’s music and the comically ominous ‘Taarzan’ theme song out of your mind. If you have watched the film, you probably did so ironically or with people who seemed to enjoy their popcorn entertainment without bringing criticism and analysis to the theatres. Buckle up millennials, this is going to be a drive down memory lane. Looking back, I totally get why the film that launched Ayesha Takia was a flop but was it a complete failure? On the anniversary of Taarzan: The Wonder Car, I'm looking back at the film that could've been Bollywood's finer attempts at a revenge drama. Night Shyamalan’s The Village (in the same year, just to give you an idea of the range) so when The Wonder Car appeared with its weird purple hood driven by an unassuming Vatsal Sheth, I was intrigued, particularly by the concept of a possessed car. Having consumed the best of films pretty early into my childhood, I had already lapped up popular films like Back To The Future and more obscure hits like M. I couldn't either when I watched it on a vacation day and it was quite an experience. The Abbas and Mustan Burmawalla film's spectacle at the movies rivalled an actual car crash, it was terrible but you couldn't look away. ![]() It was also the year Taarzan: The Wonder Car released, accelerated through its ambitious 2h 42m run-time and crashed at the box office. 2004 was especially influential with films cementing the early cinematic tones of the decade. It was a strange time for Bollywood as the industry dabbled into everything between big family dramas with Indian diaspora in the States to cheesy college romances. Raj and Priya unite and all ends well.Oh, the glorious early '00s, the decade of Dhoom, Main Hoon Na and RTDM. After he accomplishes both tasks, his soul is free and he moves on. The climax of the movie is where you learn that Devesh's spirit controls the car and he cannot move on to the after world unless he gets revenge and his family learns the truth about his death. He forbids Priya from seeing Raj and decides to send her back to London. Priya's father is one of the men who killed Raj's father. While visiting Raj's home, Priya's father sees a photo of Devesh and Raj and realizes who Raj is. The suspicion falls on Raj and he becomes the prime suspect. The car has a life of its' own and soon becomes a killing machine, taking revenge on the men who killed Devesh. He buys the car and transforms it into "Tarzan", a futuristic looking car that he builds in memory of his father. One day while passing by Raj sees his father's old car in a scrap yard. ![]() He meets Priya (Ayesha Takia) who has just returned from London and together they form a relationship. Raj is a simple looking, geeky guy who is made fun of because of the way he looks. A few years pass by and Raj has grown up and enters college. Devesh drowns to death leaving behind his mother and his young son. The men decide to place him in his car and dump the car in the nearby lake. ![]() After Devesh confronts the men, they fight and Devesh is knocked out and left unconscious. In an attempt to get justice, Devesh reports the incident to the police and later finds out the hard way that the police officer was part of the deception. After many hours designing, he shows his design to a car company owned by four men (Pankaj Dheer, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Shakti Kapoor and Mukesh Tiwari), little did he know that they would turn around and patent the design and take credit for it. He owned an old car, which was passed down to him from his father and he hoped to pass it on to his son, Raj. Devesh (Ajay Devgan) was Raj's father who was a futuristic car designer. ![]()
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