Four strangers leave their individual homes for Mumbai-the city of dreams. Four strangers get stuck in the same compartment of a train (Now that’s coincidence. Why don’t I ever get stuck with handsome guys in the train? ;0P) Four strangers become friends along the journey:
Stranger3: Is Ur hand clean?
Stranger1: Yes, why?
Stranger3: Then shake hands, man.
Four friends get down at Mumbai railway station. Four friends stick by to each other through thick & thin, even when their lives are threatened when one of them gets duped in the gambling game & is warned to return the money within 7 days or pay with his life. Four friends brood over how to get so much money within 7 days.
Four friends plan to kidnap a filthy rich businessman & save themselves by the ransom amount. Four friends make the mistake of kidnapping the wrong guy who turns out to be an underworld don (Why do they call it Underworld when they function in the world?). Four friends help the Don to realise that his life was endangered & he happened to be alive only cos they kidnapped him. Four friends become the followers of the Don who becomes their Godfather. Four friends are saved & helped by the Don in getting out of their mess.
Four friends refuse to leave the Don when they find out that his life is in danger again. Four friends face his enemy with him & do DHISHUM DHISHUM & get rid of bad Don. Four friends are rushed to the railway station by the Don & his lady love. Four friends leave in the train, same compartment; to their individual hometowns to part as four strangers....
Stranger1/Lucky: As his name goes, this guy is really Lucky at gambling & is never known to have lost a gambling match in his entire life. Sanjay Suri looks sober & cute here with his charming smile & puppy eyes sigh He leaves his home after a heated argument with his father who catches him gambling in the shop instead of earning a respectable living. His best scene in this movie is undoubtedly when the eunuchs bother the four friends for money & Lucky plays a game with them & ends up with 40 bucks extra in his pocket. It’s simply hilarious!
Stranger2/Jai: The forlorn lovesick Romeo of the group, Bikram Saluja doesn’t look too convincing. Although he towers over the entire group, he seems to be the weakest of all emotionally. He (Coward) runs away from his engagement party in search of his love, Shalini (Riya Sen) who seems to have forgotten him once she reached Mumbai. Why did he have to cause embarassment to the other party when he could have politely refused to get engaged?
On reaching Mumbai, he finds that his Shalu is not the same person anymore & is heartbroken. He drinks with his friends to drown his pain & happily indulges in flirting & ’nain-matkaying’ with a sex-bomb, Tanya (Payal Rohatgi or Roke-hat-gayi?) eventually landing up in her bed with her (Oooohh! I loved the blood red satin bedsheets :0P) He finds out that she is a professional, set up by his friends to help him forget Shalu. Forget Shalu he does & now chants ’’Tanya, Tanya’’ (Sheeeesshh! & they say women are fickle) His face looks blank in most parts of the movie except the love scenes between him & Tanya (Guess he has had enough of practise in this field being a model & ex-Mr.India).
Stranger3/Bobby: Dino Morea (another pretty face of tinseltown, or is it handsome face??) is the regular guy with dreams of making it big in Bollywood. He is confident that he is the next Amitabh Bacchan (why couldn’t he just strive to be ’I, The Bobby?’) He leaves his home in a huff after refusing to earn his livelihood by the measly works of dairying & keeping the stove burning. Being from Allahabad (AB’s hometown) he considers it too lowly for the future star to be feeding & milching cows. He meets the lovely lady, (Forgot her movie name) Sameera Reddy at the producer’s office & proudly says that he has everything to be a star-the looks, height, face, voice.... Miss Smart Pants tells him that he has everything but he aint got what she got. Poor joke! Finally with the help of Godfather, he manages to sqeeze into a movie only to find out that facing the camera needs something more than what he has got. Seems like Dino’s true life story, huh?
Stranger4/Omi: Rohitt Roy; Now whatever is that tt in his name for. Why can’t he be just Rohit like the regular guys? Is it that he gets hitt with a double impact? (lemme know if U ever find out) Ok, I guess it’s cos he’s not the regular guy. He helps a friend dupe his father of 1 lac rupees & is chased out of his house (as per their plan) to find the guy who ran away with the money. He coolly lands up in Mumbai to collect his share of the booty from his friend- Mr. Fraud. He is the one who comes up with all the silly ideas of gambling big cos Lucky never loses & later of kidnapping the businessman to save their skin, hair, teeth & nails.
The Don: Sanjay Dutt, as PorcupineBhai errr.... I mean MusaBhai (Musa stands for Moses in English names) seems lost among a bunch of kiddos. Seems like he was just placed there & paid to do the song & dance routines (The heroines of Bollywood got competition here) Somehow, he doesn’t even look much of a Don with his getup.... Yeah yeah, it’s Armani suit, Gucci footwear, Rolex watch & Porcupine quills. I was actually waiting for him to shoot his quills at his enemies. His eyes look sleepier than ever, skin sags show the amount he drinks, drinks & drinks, & the slur is getting more & more difficult to decipher. (Hey, I like Sanju Baba a lot) His scenes & arguments of getting married or not with his Dancing Lady, (Priyanka Chopra) makes U want to shake him, bang his head on the wall (even if he’s a Don) & ask him, ’’Do U Love her or do U simply Love her?’’ However, his scenes with his kiddos are hilarious & make the movie a bit more bearable. Most of all, I loved his style, especially his comfort with the revolver which keeps revolving in his fingers.
Sultanbhai/Bad Don: Mahesh Manjrekar is taking a few tips from Sanju Baba, I guess, in how to be the bad guy. If so, the pupil is soon going to surpass the tutor as the role has been played quite well. The character was supposed to be, & successfully is irritating. Those silly, idiotic, moronic poetry/shers (Hallp! I’m gonna hang myself) which have the lunatic poet solely patting himself for composing them, make U want to hit him on his head with the Big Ben so he won’t try anymore. Oh my God! Seems like I’m becoming quite violent watching all these movies. By the way, are Mahesh Manjrekar & Dino Morea competing with Salman Khan on body baring? What will our poor heroines do then? Wear long overcoats?
The only saving grace of this movie seems to be the constant package of comedy among the four strangers.. err.. friends or whatever & with Godfather. The timing of these guys is awesome & will have U really rolling on the floor. I can still hear the echo of Mama’s laughter (Aaaahhhh! The sweet sound of music).
Speaking of music, some of the songs are really good though meaningless. I hated the number ’Aane waala pal jaane waala hai....’ It simply reminded me of the old gold hit of the same title & had me fast forwarding it in full speed. All in all, this is a movie to be watched purely for timepass when all U need is a good laugh. However, as a Sanjay Gupta film, it disappoints terribly. Whether to watch or not to watch depends on how ready Ur funny bone is to be tickled. So, now, over to comments section to reveal to me, what is UR Plan....????