Teesri Aankh, directed by Harry Baweja, falls short of expectations.
A cop (Sunny Deol) flies off to London to locate the dastardly guys behind a porn racket. While he’s at it, he also intends finding out what happened to his fiancee (Neha Dhupia) who took off for the same place to win a beauty contest and has since vanished. There he runs into a girl (Ameesha Patel), who’s witnessed a murder but can’t talk.
TEESR AANKH suffers in one vital department – script. The narrative is laced with the tried-and-tested punches, thereby giving it a predictable look throughout. This mishmash script lacks freshness, with the viewer knowing exactly how the drama would unfold.Surprisingly, the story does not move in the initial 25 minutes, but gains momentum after Neha’s murder. Thereafter, right till the interval point, when Sunny spots Amisha in a farm house the film holds the viewer’s attention. The narration is fast-paced and the plot thickens.
But soon after the interval, the plot meanders from one track to another, some times focussing on the romance between Sunny-Neha, at times deviating to the mms track and at other times, focussing on villians.The girl who has just seen a killing flees for her life, with the killers after her. So what does she do? Instead of hiding safely, she clatters around like a chump, banging into things. She also runs right at them. Later, she also gets into a bathtub and lathers herself up for the world, waiting for the murderers to land up, so she can shriek and show off her bare, soapy legs.
Script is hackneyed and, to be honest, is the sole factor that takes the film’s graph downwards. It lacks ideas to enthral and keep the viewer entertained. The drama is anything but exciting .Harry, who is saddled with a weak script, shows sparks in a few scenes only.
The mediocrity in the script compels Sunny to deliver the same expressions at times. Amisha is awful . Neha is competent in a brief but significant role. Mukesh Rishi overacts . Perhaps making faces is what acting is all about, he believes. Murli Sharma gives a good account of himself.
On the whole, TEESR AANKH is handicapped by a weak script.The film has precious little to offer in terms of substance, which will curtail its prospects to a major extent. Disappointing!