Promises, promises

There’s Akki sporting a hot shirtless look in Blue’s trailer which also shows thrilling underwater sequences. Blown away by the trailer, you go to the theatre and watch the film, only to be utterly disappointed that the trailer misled you. According to movie buffs, Blue, Kurbaan and 2012 are just some of the films that portray ‘Trailer Fraud’ i.e. when a trailer misrepresents the movie or when a trailer shows the best parts of the film due to which the movie is a let down.
Talking about his experiences of trailer fraud, actor Tarun Arora, says, “When I saw Blue’s trailer, I expected it to be a hardcore thriller with a lot of visual effects. But the story had no masala, no action and was not exactly what I expected. With the kind of money involved in its making, the movie could’ve been really good,” he says. “The movie was baseless and the story was bland,” he goes on to add.
Kurbaan is a film whose promos and posters resulted in ‘fraud’ for RJ Pavitra. “There was so much talk about the love-making scene between Kareena and Saif, but when I watched it, it was like any other scene and was nothing great. I was disappointed ‘cos they just used it to promote the movie,” she says.
Ghajini’s trailers too were misleading for her. “They show nice, mushy scenes in the promos, but when I went and watched it, it was so violent that I had to close my eyes and sit in the theatre! As for other films, New York was a movie whose trailers showed mostly John Abraham and Katrina Kaif, but in the film, Neil, who was hardly there in the promos overshadowed the other stars. As for 2012, I had huge expectations after seeing the photos and promos, but there was nothing exciting in the film,” she says.
For BBM graduate Amogh BS, Blue was the baap of trailer frauds. “They showed the entire movie in a 30 second-trailer! I expected more action from the film,” he says. Hollywood film Next is another disappointment, he says, adding, “When I saw the promos I thought of a movie which had major action sequences, considering it starred Nicolas Cage, but all the movie had was ‘rewind and more rewind’,” he laughs.
Thanks to such frauds, Pavitra believes in relying on word-of-mouth rather than going by the promos. Amogh too adds that he’d rather wait for his friend’s opinions than blindly believe a film’s trailer.
So the next time there’s a superb movie trailer tempting you to spend Rs 250, remember we warned you!