Right from the first reel till infinity, the movie takes you on one hell of a ride that's not only terrible but frustratingly annoying. Lifted from a 1960's flop, shamelessly discrediting the original writer and later buying the copy wrights, TMK's movie making history is as worse as the end product.
Akshay Kumar is Tabrez Mirza Khan aka TMK, an international con-artist with a reputation of opening any kind of lock on God darn Earth. Katrina Kaif is Anya Khan, a wannabe movie-artist in the making who at the drop of a single wink is ready for a filmy act (or over-act if you like).
TMK is entrusted, with an armed robbery of a moving train loaded with Rs.500 crore worth of antique goods, by the Johri Brothers (Raghu and Rajiv twins of MTV Roadies fame in their regrettable roles). Along with his 3 dumbos, he dupes Aatish Kapoor (Akshaye Khanna), an Oscar hungry 'poor-Indian' superstar, to act in a period drama along with an unsuspecting village mob so that the goods could be robbed off in broad daylight under 'full police protection'.
What should have followed next is pure fun. What follows after is pure torture.
Not that the movie doesn't have its pluses. It's just that they either don't last long or are few to even notice them. For example, Sheila and her infamous jawaani. Why the hell couldn't she have come post intermission? Atleast that would have stopped some from vacating the movie hall. Too bad.
Not one major character is worth mentioning in the so called 'acting' category. Only one was passable. Sudhir Mishra as Bunty to Akshaye' Aatish's PA. TMK had everything going for it, contrived plot, lifted story idea, big money,floral shirts, hamming actors and Sheila. A little bit of good old fashioned basic-to-story-telling writing would have worked wonders. One more thing, did I forget to mention about Salman Khan? Blimey, I think, I need a double espresso.
Watchable? Your money, you decide.
Rating? huh? come again?!
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