Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Dus

With big screen names like Abhishek Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Zayed Khan, Sunil Shetty, Shilpa Shetty, Rima Sen, Isha Deol, Gulshan Grover and so on, one would have better expectations, but the movie was probably the most challenging movie to tolerate to-date.
Abhishek, Sanjay, Shilpa and Zayed are part of the Anti Terrorist Cell, who are in-charge of (obviously) stopping attempts of terrorism. They receive information that a fatal operation is expected on May 10 and they start their enquiries. They capture a local terrorist during a bomb threat and send Abhishek and Zayed to Canada to capture one of their men and interrogate.
Sanjay finds out that the enemy seems to be watching him and knows every move of his. His sister is captured. He finds out who the mole is and gets more information - operation Jeet. The evidence leads him to the important people in the ministry and eventually he finds out that the target occasion for a blast is Indian PM's visit to Canada. He takes the flight to Canada to join the others.
Meanwhile, Abhishek and Zayed meet Esha (their contact in Canada) and capture the enemy's man - Pankaj Kapoor. They also get into trouble with a local cop - Sunil, who ends up helping them. There isn't much information that they get out of the man they captured, but eventually he leads them to killing the head of the operation - Gulshan. Since the cops had promised freedom in return, they let Pankaj go.
Just when they are about to leave the country, they find out from their boss that their contact in Canada had already been killed and Esha was the enemy's girl. Also that Pankaj was actually their enemy and he had fooled them well. The target seems to be a huge stadium, where Pankaj had brought in kilos of bomb. The team tries hard to lose the bomb and succeeds, also losing Abhishek.
The film was a big hit when it was released, but watching it now, was just sheer torture. The special effects, although extremely well done, were just irritating and unrealistic. The forced coolness of the movie was more annoying than anything else. The songs were a disaster, save perhaps the funkiness of the title song. Heroines barely had any part to play. And it was really silly watching the foreign actors in the movie falling prey to the Indian actors' heroics. Definitely worth the skip.

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