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Starring:
Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Akshay
Kumar, Ibrahim Ali Khan, Sanjay Mishra, Manoj Pahwa,
Yashpal Sharma
Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya
In the
beginning, a blood red convertible Mercedes races
merrily through Ladakh's dusty terrain. The car swivels
so does the radio nervously shuffle between AC/DC's
Highway to Hell and Mukesh's rendition of Kabhi Kabhie.
Huge canvas, beautiful landscape and then the car loses
it control, breaks thru and goes down a lake…. Very
impressive till now and I thought that it will be the
most thrilling 2 and hours in the recent times of
mediocre bollywood films. But I was wrong.
Jimmy (Saif
Ali Khan) is a call centre executive, cool dude, quick
to smell an opportunity to make a fast buck. The love of
his life is Pooja (Kareena Kapoor), who works for
Bhaiyyaji (Anil Kapoor), an underworld don from Kanpur
Our Bhaiyyaji's passion is killing people with crazy
objects and his desire to speak English fluently the
American way. Jimmy is roped in to give the done
tuitions in English. While teaching the don, Jimmy and
Pooja fall in love and they plot to abscond with
Bhaiyyaji's money.
But Pooja double crosses the cool dude, disappears with
the cash, leaving Jimmy behind to face the fire from
Bhaiyyaji. The don calls on the small time bhai in
Kanpur - Bachchan Pande (Akshay Kumar) from Kanpur. This
new character is ordered to bring both Pooja and the
money back. Pande wanted to make it big as a shooter in
Mumbai. So he is excited. Jimmy is sent along with him.
They find Pooja who has stashed away the money in
different places all over India.
CAST :
Jeetender Kumar Makhwana
"Jimmy" - Saif Ali Khan
Pooja Singh Kareena Kapoor
Lakhan Singh urf Bhaiyyaji - Anil Kapoor
Bachchan Pandey - Akshay Kumar
Ibrahim Ali Khan
Sanjay Mishra
Manoj Pahwa
Yashpal Sharma
CREDITS
Directed by Vijay
Krishna Acharya
Story - Vijay Krishna Acharya
Produced by Aditya Chopra, Yash Chopra
Executive producers - Sanjay Shivalkar, Aashish Singh
Cinematography - Ayananka Bose
Film Editing by Rameshwar S. Bhagat
Art Direction - Sukant Panigrahy
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Debutant director Vijay
Krishna Acharya is brilliant in a few scenes, has been
supported by absolutely unbelievable stunts by Akshay
Kumar and some truly exotic locales, but through the
remaining parts, Yash Raj Banner is experimenting with the
Indian audience. They have done a quality job in the
promos of this movie, so as in the initial scene. Rest
onwards, the director uses a mixture of David Dhavan type,
the B grade Hong Kong Movie type treatment - like the
Bachan character from UP, so is the Raja Bhaiya, the
Gudiya and the nautanki scene to introduce Akshay Kumar.
While the trio makes its way through different parts of
the country collecting all the money, Jimmy and Pooja
hatch another plan, where Pooja tries to get Pande to fall
in love with her. She tries all her charms and tricks but
does not succeed, till one night when Pande reveals the
story of his childhood crush. That girl really happens to
be our Pooja.
Now Pande actually falls in love with Pooja, and decides
go alone to Bhaiyyaji and save Pooja and Jimmy. So begins
the chases, fun and the predictable masala …..
The title song as also the romantic song (Dil Hara Re)
picturised on Saif and Kareena - picturised in Greece and
the Kareena's Chalia song are very good indeed. There are
other flaws in the screenplay and in the second half it
appears like watching a B grade Hong Kong movie where the
bullets fly here and there but none of the good guys get
hurt.
The style and look of film is
impressive. But more impressive were its promos which
gives a totally different picture as if the full movie was
based somewhere in Greece and it would be an out and out
thriller - which it isn't.
Anil Kapoor is a big disappointment here. Sadly at times,
he is irritating. An actor of his caliber is wasted in
such a stupid role. There is nothing great about the "new
thin and lean look" of Kareena Kapoor. Saif Ali Khan
appears fine and acts well. Akshay Kumar steals the show.
- Shaami M. Irfan
CREDITS (Crew)
Art
Department - Storyboard Artist - Samar Shaikh
Visual Effects By Prime Focus
Lead Compositor - Vivek Gaur
Visual Effects Supervisor - Merzin Tavaria
Music Conductor & Orchestrator - Andrew T. Mackay
First Assistant Directors - Ali Abbas Zafar, Sanyukta
Ray
Second Assistant Directors - Sherena Cherian, Sharma
Himanshu
Third Assistant Director - Mansi A. Mhatre
Trainee Assistant Director - Vikhyaat Sareen Publicity
Designer - Fayyaz Badruddin
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