The film begins with a very filmi dialogue - aadmi musafir hai - aata hai, jaata hai and while Sanjay Dutt is mouthing this dialogue pointing a gun at Anil Kapoor’s temple - there are stylised shots edited quite sylishly - revealing his face after a buildup.
That in a nutshell is Musafir. Some filmi, punchy dialogues, lot of stylish camera tricks and suave edit.
Oh and there are also some good looking men and sexy looking women. Sanjay Dutt needless to say looks like a stylish goon that he is. With golden teeth caps and long jackets he also smokes a cigar all along.
The refreshing change however is Anil Kapoor - with his new hairdo (thanks to stylsit Aalim Hakim), he looks awesome. While for a pool scene, anil Kapoor has shaved not just his chest hair but also his back hair - with so much shaving cream gone into that, he has forgotten to shave his beard in the entire film.
That apart the film completely belongs to him. The makers should have realized that and instead of disappointing the audiences who came into see Sanjay Dutt - they should have publicized the film as an Anil Kapoor film.
Anil Kapoor is the hero of the film. And like Sanjay Dutt says ’’agar heroine ke saath gaana gaane ki tamanna nahin hoti toh villain ban sakta tha’’
But being the hero that he is Anil Kapoor falls for the girl he looks at. Be it bar dancer Koena Mitra who cheats him and runs away with his money or Sameera Reddy who involves him in her sad married life.
On a mission to Goa, Anil Kapoor bumps into Sameera Reddy - who by the way while having a tattoo done on her body moves like a snake.
Please someone tell the director and her that if she would move like that while getting herself tattooed - the tattoo would certainly not look like that butterfly!!!!!
Not that her moving like that made a great impact on screen either which ways.
Sameera Reddy sure has lost a lot of weight but doesn’t look hot so to speak. Thank God for her acting skills which make the film watchable.
Mahesh Manjrekar is there in the film only to speak punchy lines. For instance ’’yeh bhi bathroom mein aur tum bhi - dono milke kya bathroom ki tankie saaf kar rahe the’’
But then again the dialogues are not as impactful as they were in the film Kaante (which was made by the same director and dialogues written by the same writer).
All in all, in today’s day and age where a Veer Zaara is disappointing - at least a Musafir is entertaining.