I expected a slick high-concept espionage thriller but
what I got instead was the same old ghisa-pita badla aur jaydaad ki
ladaai. That angle is obviously as old as the Bollywood film
itself. And even the shifting locales- Thailand, Istanbul, India, UK ,
Greece, can do little to perk-up the convoluted narrative that veteran
actor Ramesh Deo’s son Abhinav Deo has fashioned for the audience.
Kabr Malhotra(Anupam Kher) is the millionaire puppeteer who sends out
calligraphed invites to four people living in different corners of the
globe. Kabir bids and the four come running to his private island,
Samos. It so happens that Kabir’s daughter Maya (Sarah Jane
Dias) was ruined by three men- human trafficker Ramsay(Boman Irrani) ,
drug peddler Neil Menon(Abhishek Bachchan) and sizzled bollywood actor
Vikram Kapoor(Jimmy Shergill). But the next day Kabir commits suicide
and the mystery deepens inexorably. The story gets further convoluted
when an investigator (Kangna Ranaut) enters the fray and Menon suddenly
realises that he was in love with Maya and would love to avenge her
death. An exasperating set-up followed by precious little
exposition and one incredible development after another. You are bound
to be surprised by the incredible logic employed to justify the most
annoying nonsense. The actors are substandard and the direction though
slick and glossy looking, lacks a sense of direction. Also there is no
tension in the film. The characters are also not worth caring about. So
why bother?
Rating: * *
