Musafir

OK... bring in the style. That's the only thing Sanjay Gupta's latest offers. Everything is style, machismo... lockets hanging on necks, rings on fingers, stubbles, gold teeth, bracelets, tattoos, dyed hair, leather jackets, piercings... you name it. And yeah, plenty of sleek cars, item girls, discotheques, smart-ass dialogs... you name it. And yeah, multicolored lenses, motion blurs, split screen, slow motion, sound effects... you name it.

And yes, in between all this, there is the shortlived semblance of a story woven between Lucky (Anil Kapoor ), Sam (Sameera Reddy) and Luca (Mahesh Manjrekar). How you wish the director would have carried that on, because it was really starting to get a little interesting. But no, Billa (Sanjay Dutt) has to intervene at the most inappropriate places and say a few dialogues criticizing Bollywood villains. In fact the title credits say "Presented by Sanjay Dutt", so he pretty much had a free hand in this movie, and ends up as a candyfloss goody-goody sugary "imandaar aur dil ka saccha" types.

This movie has all the Sanjay Gupta regulars... Sandeep Chowta providing background and general music, one Milap Zaveri in charge of dialogues, foreign technicians providing the glitz. Style is good, but it needs some meat in the story. But it's Sanjay Gupta, so... The song "Tez Dhaar" is quite good, a nice beat to it.

Mahesh Manjrekar does very well for a change. He is pretty controlled for the most part, only to become his usual manic self a little later on. It would be a travesty not to mention Shakti Kapoor playing the very apt "Wacko Jacko". In a mere 3 dialogues in the entire movie, he excels with his vulgar tone and mannerisms.