A captivating thriller with a powerful ending. Slick, stylish & fast-paced, the film’s high point is it’s taut screenplay.Sanjay Gupta’s direction uplifts even an ordinary sequence. It’s not as if Aishwarya Rai Bachchan gets Anuradha Verma, the anguished legal eagle who takes up cudgels for people whose guilt is beyond doubt, all wrong. In the scenes in which she has to be matter-of-fact, where she is recounting facts and bringing up counter-arguments, she uses her star-power just right.
In the others, she is over the top, see-sawing between hysteria and over-wroughtness. And has you wincing. And that’s pretty much the case with the film, convoluted and over-plotted, as a whole. Sanjay Gupta’s ability to create menace and a sinister sense of place is overwhelmed by the film’s need to showcase the lead actor. It spills over into the way the solid supporting cast comes off, as characters meant to buoy the central figure around whom the action revolves:
Atul Kulkarni as the public prosecutor, Jackie Shroff as an ambitious politico, Chandan Roy Sanyal as the accused. Shabana Azmi, attired in the most gorgeous handloom saris, has an interesting part, and gets in some traction, though. As does, of course, Irrfan, who gets to chase bad guys, throw his fists about, and send a nod and a wink our way but this is an very good movie and is written and directed by sanjay gupta. aishwarya rai, irfann khan and shabana azmi all acted very well. I liked irfann kan role and aishwarya rai role too. aishwarya khan’s role was the leading role and this movie is an iindian action drama movie. I suggest you to watch this movie in cinema hall.