Well I wasnt really expecting anything from this movie so im glad I wasnt disappointed when I saw an amateurish attempt to remix a few hollywood movies with some bollywood ones to dish out a movie which at best can be described as an amusing thriller .
the plot has enough holes to be labelled as a sieve and the melodrama doesnt help as the movie tries desperately to be slick but falls flat on its face.
our heroine is a theatre actress sophie[tanushree] who unfortunately needs some acting lessons very badly , she also need some costumes as she hardly wears any in this trashy movie where enough skin is on show to make you forget a playboy annual issue .
She and her lover played by another mediocre theatre actor jimmy shergill [who else can play it as its played by himself in real life too ]decide to entrap a not so naive billionaire mr matthews -rahul khanna who is in IT business and to prove that he loves computers he sometimes holds conversations with his computer and they talk back to him too
he is a truly lucky man as my computer just comes up with errors on every page and talking of that lets say MURDER BY ERRORS is an inspiration when compared to this twisted plot of murder mysteries from the postman always rings twice to **jism .
Meanwhile mr matthews is framed to marry the bad actress [tanushree -who needs to retire from theatre and movies as well ]who also happens to be the same girl whose parents died in a car crash at the hands of mr matthews mother as she broke a traffic signal while trying to take her dying husband to a hospital 20 years ago so the girl initially refuses his proposition as he is the son of her parents murderer[sob sob] but is then seduced by a really cheesy speech by rahul khanna in a nightclub and the accident is forgotten and forgiven .amen
it sounds really complicated and [very origonal as by now youve guessed]the plot is lifted from a dozen movies in some really weird and
complex twists ,
but the surprise is yet to come as mr sharman joshi who is richie richs -mr matthews best friend and also his stepbrother unknown to him is the real masterplanner who is after some kind of eternal revenge in a tale of lust , greed and sibling rivalry.
meanwhile after singing the only good song TERA CHEHRA IK RUBAI [which is very good indeed]the two leads get married and instead of going on a honeymoon to venice to sing another song they go to see a really bad play with the wifes exflame [jimmy shergill ] theatre actor lover playing a duellist [oh yeah the freaks wearing a blonde wig like count of monte cristo]and utterring some beautiful urdu verses in a really bad hindi diction about love and death ,
now mr rahul goes to bangkok for a meeting and mrs starts to cheat on him with her ex boyfriend , the bad actor from hell who looks constipated rather then cuckolded as they sing another song in phuket in southern thailand while hubby is in bangkok , the song channa ve channa is good but badly picturised.
dont be surprised if miss tanushree by now has not mesmerised you by her total lack of talent and clothing , as joshi does by hamming big way in his worst role to date .
mr joshi is the guy who is the main villain playing the whole game and the girl is a pawn in his hands as they double cross both the lover [shergill ]and husband[mr matthews] who is setup to be murdered by the girls lover in an absurd twist involving ventolin inhalers as the hubby is an asthmatic who only can afford to buy one inhaler despite his billions , but there is some hogwash about blank bullets too which was not even connected to death by asthma cospiracy theory .
so next hubby is murdered and buried alive while the actor lover is framed for the murder and imprisoned for life and the 2 lovers now decide to really go back to thailand in reality to sing the worst song of the year which is also the worst choreography ive seen for a while in bollywood with mr joshi trying to be salman khan and shahid kapoor in the same song simultaneously , with a lot of naked girls dancing around him like he is the casanova of bollywood
by this time you are so fed up you cant help but start laughing at the silly on goings as mr joshi suddenly rediscovers his mother who was deceived by his and mr matthews - r.khannas daddy and is the cause of the sibling rivalry and the revenge story , im sure you remember **baazigar and rakhee by now .
the poor mother looks devastated and is still in a shell shock after 20 years of watching this dreadful movie just like me too.
well now await the silliest climax as the dead husband springs back to life irrespective of whether he was buried alive after being murdered without a post mortem in india which seems to be a disaster for forensic medicine as it makes the bob woolmer murder and jamaican police look like geniuses in their investigative procedures .
but then how else can the moral and holy climax be staged in a candle lit church where the wife called sophie and the husband called mr.matthews meet again along with the shrewd but not so bright sibling mr joshi and in an awfully hilarious climax christ intervenes to kill the two cheating lovers with their own hands as the inspector of police and hubby look on in utter amazement while the audience is actually laughing aloud as if we cared by now as to who died where and who buried whom in this absurdly twisted tale of sibling rivalry
well thats about it but behold the mum is adopted by the very holy richie rich stepson and we can all go home now .
the one saving grace was the music with particular mention of kk’s janne kaise din dhala beautifully written composed and picturised and alishas qatil is hummable too , and the outdoor cinematography is good with the only good song picturisation being tera chehra ik rubai and as for costumes miss tanushree wears hardly any even to her husbands funeral while the two geeks salman and rahul are fully dressed even while on the beach in thailand , i suppose they havent pumped up enough iron yet to be confident enough to take their shirts off like hritik and salman khan
the cinematography is good outdoors but the indoor scenes lack any atmosphere and what is meant to be a brooding dark atmospheric piece becomes a colorful skin show .
its a must for people enamoured of miss tanushrees physical charms and if you wanna watch some good foreign locales with a few good songs
my take is stay home and watch body heat , double jeopardy , fida , or even double indemnity in black and white or go out to the beach for a picnic but stay away from this mockery of hitchcocks murder mysteries