Ta Ra Rum Pum (ता रा रम पम)(Hindi, 2007)

Ta Ra Rum Pum is the story of RV(Saif Ali Khan), his wife Radhika(Rani Mukherjee) and children Princess (Angelina Idnani) and Champ (Ali Haji). RV is a star race driver, who likes to live life as it comes and does not believe in planning for the future. After an accident on the race track, he finds himself psychologically scarred and unable to get back into racing. As he does not know how to do anything else, he soon finds himself penniless. Ta Ra Rum Pum is the story of how the family fights the "poor" days together, how they keep their spirits high inspite of adversities and how, when faced with the issue of saving his son's life, RV finds his groove back and wins a race again.

That the movie is an "inspired" version of Cinderella Man is not news. What is news is that it is a good movie in its own right. The story of keeping up the spirits in spite of adversities is an age-old draw, but it still works. Saif and Rani come up with good performances, as do the kids. Javed Jaffery is very good in the role of a friend and supporter.

An interesting tid-bit. The movie shook me up to some degree. In the scene where the family moves from Manhattan to the poor cabbie district, a person comments - "Must be some IT guy having lost his job". Scary, isn't it, given that we also have everything on loan just like in the movie. God, please keep me afloat.

Recommendation - Nice fell-good movie.
Rating - ✔✔✔