Director-duo Abbas-Mastan has delivered yet another thriller named RACE! But the question is, what is this race all about? All the principal characters are presumably running after money, which was $50 million in the beginning, but ended up to $200 million! The younger brother wants to kill the elder one, not only for money, but also in order to beat him in the race of life.
Too much twists and turns in a plot make it very confusing. This is what happened here. The connections between the men and women are established so abruptly that the viewer is at his wit's end to figure out how or why should it happen. Take for example the case of Rajiv and Sophia-the younger brother and the secretary of the elder one respectively. During two-third part of the movie, they didn't exchange a single dialogue, but then suddenly it is revealed that they were married! The initial plan of Rajiv was to kill Ranvir, his elder brother, and claim the $100 million insurance money, whereas Ranvir planned to wait till Rajiv gets the money, and then kill him in order to claim $200 million!! Nobody cared about the fact that if both are dead, one really and the other as an eye-wash, who will claim the money on their behalf??
In the final scene before intermission, enters RD(Robert D'Costa), an investigating officer, and his assistant Mini. While Robert is busy in eating fruits all through , starting from banana to apple to sugarcane to strawberries, Mini tries to prove her efficiency by asking dumb questions and foolish comments on anything and everything she saw! They reminded me of Karamchand and Kitty. But Karamchand was happy consuming carrots only, while RD does not leave any fruit which comes within his reach. Johnny Lever made one brief appearence, which was supposed to be a comedy-cameo, but unfortunately, it turned out to be an attempt to make you laugh at gunpoint. There is a mercenary as well, who uses his truck as a key weapon whenever he is assigned the job of killing somebody. He fails both times, and in the second time, he gets killed, thereby relieving both himself and me from the pain of watching!
In terms of acting, Saif Ali Khan as Ranvir was cool, while Akshaye Khanna as Rajiv was okay, although he is getting stereotyped by playing the same type of villain in all of Abbas-Mastan's thriller (Naqaab, Humraaz etc). The ladies, Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif respectively as Sonia and Sophia, were full of glamour and all other things except acting. Anil Kapoor as RD and Sameera Reddy as Mini do not make an impact. I felt sad for Anil Kapoor, who delivered such a strong performance in Black and White, was such a waste here.
Over and above, the thriller was so "sleak" that it lacked the required smartness and intelligence. After all, everything cannot be fitted in one pot only by brute force. Dear Abbas and Mastan, enough is enough, Ab bas bhi karo!
1 comment:
I felt the same watching this Race.. but I guess I have watched more movies like this than you have.. so here is the calculation...
Ranvir 'dies' - so the 50 mn becomes 100 million for his wife.. Katrina.. who is actually teamed up with Rajiv.. now when Rajiv dies, his wife Bipasha gets double of that (dont know what policy allows this :P) that is 200 million.. but she is teamed up with Ranvir.. who has the last laugh with Abbas and Mastan.. (even as people in the theater wince in pain)
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