STARRING

Ajay Devgan, Arshad Warsi, Ayesha Takia, Irrfan Khan, Mukesh Tiwari, Vrajesh Hirjee, Anjana Sukhani and others.

DIRECTION

Rohit Shetty

STORY

The story of the film is inspired by a hit Telugu film Anukokunda Okka Roju and boasts to be a comic thriller. The story revolves around Ayesha Takia (Sehar), a forgetful dubbing artist, who is suspected to have murdered a person on Sunday, but remembers nothing about the event. Ayesha Takia is followed by several people in the film whom she does not even know and two of them are Arshad Warsi(Ballu), who plays a taxi driver and Irrfan Khan (Kumar) who is a struggling actor.

However, the murder mystery is solved by Ajay Devgan(Rajveer), who plays the role of a police official in the film. The director also tries to show a romantic angle developing between Ayesha Takia and Ajay Devgan. The first half of the story has a lot of funny moments, but second half is relatively dull and tests the patience of the audience. Sajid-Farhad dialogues are fairly entertaining and mass appealing.

PERFORMANCE

The brooding actor Ajay Devgan plays the part of a fumbling comic cop Rajveer with restraint while Ayesha Takia is natural to the core in the film. While her acting is good, she needs to maintain herself by losing some of baby fat. Arshad Warsi’s performance is just superb and he essays the character of a cab driver Ballu with ease. His comic timing is unmatched. Irrfan Khan, as usual, is very good in the character of a struggling actor. Vrajesh Hirjee has played his character of Ayesha’s friend with consummate ease. Anjana Sukhani, Mukesh Tiwari, Murali Sharma and others provided able support to main cast of the film. Esha Deol lends star appeal in the item song.

The direction of Rohit Shetty is competent but he is certainly more authoritative in comedy than in the thriller genre. The thriller genre needs more logic in its script than would a comic film ever require.  The music by Sandeep Chowta, Daler Mehndi is good but the absence of a super hit number is sorely felt. Some numbers like ‘Loot liya’, ‘Kashamakash’ just pass the muster.

STARDUST VERDICT

The first half of the film is very good with Arshad Warsi’s superb comic timing, but second half is relatively dull. An average fare.