Haary Baweja’s Teesri AAnkh is an apt case of old wine in new bottle. A typical masala fare, it reminds you of the commercial potboilers made in the 1980s.
ACP Arjun (Sunny Deol) is a messiah of all women caught nude on webcam.
He send cars tumbling down the street. He also specialises in hurling speeding bikes into the air. The stunts get more funny when Deol’s girlfriend (Neha Dhupia) is trapped in the porn web. Neha wants to become the Face of the Nation and goes to London for the contest, where she is captured nude in the changing room. She makes a compromise to get back the CD - she acts in a blue film. The second lady in the story is Amisha Patel who witnesses a murder and then runs for the rest of the film.
Writers have chosen a story that’s as old as the hills. To be honest, looking for anything original in the film is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Not only is the story oft-repeated, even the screenplay is of utmost convenience. It starts off with the mms issue, but exactly fifteen minutes later, it suddenly deviates to another track.With Amisha’s introduction, it changes tracks yet again – it becomes a thriller.With so many sub-plots in the film, it seems that the writers wanted to squeeze just about everything in the film, so as to cater to the popular tastes.When the porn filmmakers secretly film Neha Dhupia while she’s changing in her make-up room and blackmail her, instead of going to the police, or calling her fiance who’s a cop himself, she lets them blackmail her into acting in a porn film.Later, when Sunny reaches Amisha’s residence (he manage the address so fast! ok Interpol might be helping him?) he is suddenly attacked by Mukesh Rishi’s henchmen (now, how do they get the address?). What follows is bullets frenzy and our macho man Sunny taking on six/seven people all by himself (throw logic in dustbin).
The action sequences are deftly handled. In fact, the stunts are the redeeming feature of this enterprise.The climax is long-drawn and hard to digest.
Director has opted for a theme that has precious little to offer and that’s where he stumbles. Music is equally uninspiring. Cinematography is patchy; at places alright, at times dull. Dialogues are monotonous and rudimentary.
Sunny looks out of place in an enterprise like this. Amisha Patel continues to be wooden. Neha has no role to talk of.Atul Sharma does quite well. Ayub is wasted in an insignificant role. Mukesh Tiwari is convincing. Arti does an okay job. Ashish suffers due to a sketchy role.
On the whole, Teesri Aankh has nothing new to offer.