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Saturday, May 17, 2008

MUSAFIR

Rating Can be seen once.
Positive Good Visuals 
Director:  Sanjay Gupta 
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Anil Kapoor, Sameera Reddy, Mahesh Manjrekar,
Negative Loose Direction

Review

MUSAFIR is based on Oliver Stone's U-TURN released in 1997 but it's NOT a scene-to-scene copy of the much-acclaimed flick.

In MUSAFIR, Sanjay Gupta explores new territory, giving the material a stark edge, innovation and a thick, memorable atmosphere. This time around, it's an almost original tale that's not contrived or recycled. In this film, he delves into infidelity, incest, ill luck, paranoia, mistrust, murder, deception, fraud, money and the mafia. 

Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor scored great whenever they have a entry at the screen whereas Sameera is real Sexy did exactly what director and audience wanted from this poor girl.

MUSAFIR scores on various levels. Not only is its story different - a novel experience for Indian moviegoers - even its making is several notches above the ordinary. Provocative and graphic, MUSAFIR examines the mind of several immoral men - a lane not many 'play safe' Bollywood film-makers would want to venture into. 

Lucky [Anil Kapoor] had had enough of change. From odd jobs to petty crimes. From home addresses to jail addresses. He wanted a house of his own... a family... a new beginning. One last con-job, girlfriend [Koena Mitra] in tow, sunset in background, and he would be well on his way. Twenty-four hours later, he's been betrayed by his girlfriend, hunted by a drug lord [Sanjay Dutt], orphaned by the death of his three partners and sent to Goa to do a drug deal to buy his life back. Lucky pulls of a drug deal, chases a femme fatale with a shocking past [Sameera Reddy], manages to lose the drug lord's money yet again, is hounded by a corrupt cop [Aditya Pancholi] and gets offered the same amount by a perverted husband [Mahesh Manjrekar], who offers him a contract killing. 

Under siege and racing the clock, a deadly battle of wits ensues in a climax filled with spiraling tension and volatile action. The narrative moves in a serpentine fashion, rarely proceeding in a predictable zone. Just when you thought that Anil and Koena would embark on an interesting journey at the very start of the film, he's betrayed big time.

 

 

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