Hindi movie starring the good looking Imran Khan (of Jaane Tu...ya Jaane Na fame), Minissha Lamba, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Malavade and Rahul Dev.
Kidnap is the story of, surprise surprise, a kidnapping! Imran playing Kabir, a juvenile offender out for revenge, kidnaps Sonia played by Minissha Lamba and then begins a cat and mouse game where Sonia’s father, Sanjay Dutt has to solve a series of clues to get his daughter back safe. Alongside he also has to fend with his argumentative wife Mallika and Irfan (Rahul Dev) a corporate security officer.
On paper, the premise looks good and action-filled but the execution is so bad that the audience is left bored with the sheer non-existence of any real ‘action’! Imran Khan should stick to chocolate hero roles, he is no toughie and try as he might is not able to flex any mean muscles. Minissha is supposedly 17 going on 18 but she looks older than her mother. She tries really hard throughout the movie, even appearing in a bikini in one scene, apparently the role demanded it, oh what a novel thing for a heroine to say! Yes, roles do demand a lot but you also have to stand up and be able to answer it, not just with cleavage and bare midriffs but with some real ‘acting’!
Sanjay Dutt looks old and continues to have the same wooden expressions on his face, in one scene he is handed a gun for protection and he says vehemently, “No guns”, kind of ironic considering that guns have pretty much ruined his personal life so far. The songs are below average and again have no place in a movie like this that is supposed to be fast paced. At no point do you feel the any real emotion in Sonia’s parents, shock, fear for her life, of what the kidnapper might do, isn’t that what parents are supposed to feel when they hear that their precious one has been kidnapped?? The actors just go through the motions; nobody seems interested in the movie, including us, the audience.
Wake up Sanjay Gadhvi, movies cannot all be made on the lines of Dhoom 1 and 2, chases have to be exciting, kidnappings should be scary and heroines do not all need to show cleavage or wear bikinis, some intelligent stories are what we want.