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Producer/s:
Venus
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Cast: Rahul Khanna, Arjun
Rampal, Mithun Chakraborthy, John Abraham,
Lara Dutta, Amisha Patel
Music: Anu Malik
Lyrics: Sameer |
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 'Move
it faster!’, this is what you are tempted to scream
at the director. The film moves at one pace throughout.
Even the climax is no different. The film fails to move
the audience too. It is like a sequence of well-executed
action sequences put together. A veteran like Mithun
Chakravorty is completely wasted. So much could have
been done with him considering his great mass appeal.
He is playing your regular underworld don with a few
impressive lines thrown in for effect.
Now for the story. Karan
Shah’s (Rahul Khanna) father’s life is in
danger unless he pays a ransom amounting to 2 crores.
The person responsible is a dreaded Baba (Mithun Chakravorty).
Karan refuses to let his father succumb to Baba’s
demands resulting in the latter’s death. What
on earth did Karan have in mind? Soon Karan swings into
action to avenge his father’s death and assembles
a mini army comprising of Arjun Rampal, John Abraham
and himself.
A journalist (Amisha
Patel) joins the gang. Let’s not get into the
hows and whys of this! Her mere presence in the film
is a downer! It is inevitable that John’s sweetheart
played by Lara Dutta too forms part of the gang. At
least, she is tolerable. But her item numbers have started
looking the same.
Cut to the revenge drama.
There is a slight twist when it is revealed that John
is trying to hoodwink the two and is trying to run away
with their money. But that is soon sorted out. There
is no element of suspense in the film as it is revealed
right after Karan’s father’s death that
he wants to bring Baba back to India and have him arrested.
It wouldn’t be a Hindi film if the heroes didn’t
succeed in doing that. So you have to just grimace and
bear the two and a half hour chase, rather nonsense!
It is meant to be a chase but the girls’ makeup
and costumes make them look like they have just stepped
out of a fashion boutique!
There are a couple of
songs to ease your pain. The tapori song ‘andarlu
mandarlu’ is entertaining. Lara and John’s
hot number, ‘Dil Mein Hulchul’ fails to
titillate! One doesn’t even remember the remaining
numbers. The guys are decent, particularly Arjun Rampal.
He looks great too, perfect eye candy!
John seems suited for
the role while Rahul still has to loosen up a bit in
front of the camera. Lara is okay but has started looking
the same in all her films. Amisha is over the top as
usual. Ditto for her clothes and makeup sense. And how
does a journalist know how to use a gun so well! She
is just not suited for this role. Don’t think
this film has great prospects at the box office.
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