Well, the first thing about the movie is that its a fantasy film, so lets not even get started about whether such a story is plausible in real life or not. But then how many Hindi movies have a plausible story, atleast this one does not pretend to have one.
Ajay Devgun is an automobile engineer who designs a really cool car and sets out to sell its design. He is swindled by four owners of a company viz. Pankaj Dheer, Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Shakti Kapoor, and Mukesh Tiwari along with a corrupt cop whose name I dont know. After swindling him of the design of the car, they drown him in his car named Taarzan.
Ajay Devgun’s son, newcomer Vatsal Sheth grows up working in a garage owned by Amrish Puri and living with his grandmother, Farida Jalal. He also goes to college where he falls in love with another newcomer Ayesha Takia, who has just returned from ’’London Oxford University’’. Abbas Mustan should get theri geography straight to start off. Anyhow, one fine day he finds his father’s old car in a garage, buys it, works on it to transform it into a cool looking dark blue ultra modern car.
The car unknown to him starts off on a mission to kill the 5 perpetrators who had killed Ajay Devgun and Vatsal Sheth starts getting a lot of flak from Gulshan Grover playing the cop. To make matters more complicated Vatsul’s girlfriend father is Pankaj Dheer. In the end ofcourse everything works out fine....So the supposed mystery in the film is what does the car have to do with Ajay Devgun’s death. Duh!
Vatsul Sheth is alright given this is his first movie. Ajay Devgun and Farida Jalal do a good job in their 15 minute roles. The other newcomer Ayesha Takia is irritating to say the least. She has 2 maybe 3 expressions which she uses repeatedly thoughout the movie. Amrish Puri is so loud, I had to lower the volume of my TV everytime he came on the screen for fear of disturbing the neighbours. The car, Taarzan is probably the best part of the movie.
It looks cool and the special effects which go with the car’s antics are excellent, specially after one has been made to witness the crap of Gayab. As for the villianous quatret, they really done have much to do except shout and run around, though Sadashiv Amrapurkar’s son(again name unknown to me) does provide some genuinely funny moments. Gulshan Grover has done an okay job in his 15 minute role.
The background score is passable but the songs are just terrible. I would have poked fun at them in this review, but I couldn’t get myself to watch them to comment on them. Granted Abbas Mustan are making a fantasy film, but there are a few things which could have been kept realistic to avoid unintentional laughter from the audience. Whenever the car is chasing any of the villians for revenge the highways are absolutely deserted. And in the climax scence when the heroine’s father is revealed as a killer, she is absolutely fine with it even when he is being taken in by the police. Infact she just snuggles upto the love of her life and showing off her 32 teeth in a fake smile. Also, the length of the movie like so many other Hindi movies could’ve been cut by an hour. It just drags and drags at the end...
Overall, if your girlfriend is not able to meet you in the evening and you dont want to listen to politicians shout on TV, then this movie would be watchable with a couple of beers. The special affects are really good and it might strike the right chord with kids.
Shwetabh.