APD is about a 1000 crore rupees bequeathed by a don (Om Puri) to his son, his ’’daughter’’, and her ’’husband’’. Let me put that more correctly, about DIAMONDS worth that amount. And the will states that the diamonds will either be shared among the three, or two if one’s death certificate is produced, or one if two death certificates are produced, and so on and so forth.
And that’s about the only thing about the movie that you will be able to decipher. The rest of the movie is absolute crap, supposedly a remake of the Hollywood flick ’’The Whole Nine Yards’’. It doesn’t even come close. (Not to say that the original was a good movie... it was crap too.)
There are Matrix-like action scenes, in which a gang of Chinese-looking characters wielding weapons fly about trying to kill Akshay Kumar. AK overcomes them by doing some levitation himself. Then there’s an absolutely hilarious shootout scene, where AK removes two HUGE guns from his jacket and blasts the cops. Sunil Shetty gets his share of action scenes now and then. The climax is a bizarre hodge-podge of airborne bikes, monster trucks and the like.
The director betrays his lack of ideas as the ’’story’’ takes senseless twists and turns. You just can’t get the hang of it. The villian gets kidnapped, only we find that he sent somebody else disguised as himself as a decoy, while he pops out of an aeroplane elsewhere. Later it’s revealed that the original kidnapping was planned by himself, and the guy in the aeroplane is the decoy. Huh? Can’t make head or tail out of this.
The music is best not talked of. Aftab shakes a leg with Preeti to some jarring sounds. Later the three heroes gyrate to some even more jarring sounds. The background score in the action scenes is deafening.
Wow, I’ve criticized it so much... was there anything I actually liked? Yes. The comedy track. Paresh Rawal plays a hen-pecked husband who constantly keeps forgetting everybody’s names, not to mention his own. The man has got the best sense of timing in the industry, and his scenes with the stammering Johnny Lever are a riot! Some of the one-liners penned by Neeraj Vohra are really good. The director actually shows a flair for handling the comic scenes... at least there’s a modicum of originality compared to the lifted action scenes.
As far as the other actors, the less said the better. AK overacts when he’s not doing his stunts, Sunil Shetty is extremely uncomfortable doing the comic scenes, Aftab looks lost, Rahul Dev mostly bares his teeth, Om Puri is extremely loud in the few scenes he gets. The ladies get 1-2 scenes each. Amrita Arora hams. Preeti Jhangiani gets mostly senti scenes - hangover from Mohabbatein. Aarti Chhabria exposes more skin than has been seen recently.
All in all, a bad film, save the comedy.