Casting: Sanjay Dutt, Mallika Sherawat, Arshad Warsi, Riteish Deshmukh, Kangna Ranaut, Aashish Chaudhary, Jaaved Jaaferi
Director: Indra Kumar
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Stroryline: After losing a huge sum to a police officer, Kabir Nayak; four slackers: Aditya Shrivastav, Boman Contractor, Manav Shrivastav and Deshbandhu Roy find themselves unemployed and broke. Then they come upon Kabir, who apparently lives a wealthy lifestyle now along with his wife, Kamini, and sister, Kiya. They intrude in his life, find out he is having an affair with a woman named Gulabo, and blackmail him into making them partners. They also rope in a gangster-turned-Sadhu, Bata Bhai, into investing in an oil project – but are humiliated and go on the run after finding that Kabir has conned them. With an enraged Bata on their tail, the hapless foursome manage to escape to Macau with the help of a gangster, Mohsin Bhai. It is here they will run into Kabir – who is now the owner of ‘Four Jokers’ Casino – and make elaborate plans to avenge their humiliation as well as ensure that he winds up alone and penniless.
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Casting: Bipasha Basu, Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Mugdha Godse, Ashwini Khalsekar, Fardeen Khan, Johnny Lever, Sanjay Mishra, Ashish R. Mohan, Shraddha Musale, Atul Parchure, Vijay Patkar, Subhash Pradhan, Mukesh Tiwari, Sherveer Vakil, Puneet Vashist
Director: Rohit Shetty
Release Date: 16 October 2009
Review: A new genre has arrived in Bollywood! I would like to call it Shetty comedy! The Golmaal director has certainly succeeded in creating a brand for himself with All the Best.
Though some situations in the movie look forced, but cinema is known for taking such liberties. How else do you think Manmohan Desai would have survived. The best thing about Shetty comedies, are they don’t seem repetetive, and every time offers something fresh. Despite using the same comic formula (of punchy dialogues and multiple characters), till now Rohit Shetty has prevented himself from being typecast.
But beyond a point, it’s difficult to maintain that comic momentum. Even comedy king like David Dhawan slips whenever he’s overconfident. The recent example being Do Knot Disturb.
Kidnap (2008)
Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
Release Date: 2 October 2008 (UK)
Stroryline: Does committing a crime make you a criminal? Kidnap is a film that asks this question. Vikrant Raina takes one such decision in a moment of extreme rage when his 8 year old daughter is facing a life and death situation. He couldn’t imagine how that one decision would affect 14 year old Kabir Sharma’s life, he has then been labelled a ‘criminal’ .
Raina, net worth 51.7 billion dollars. The richest Indian in the world. One phone call and his world crashes down around him. His only child, his daughter Sonia has been kidnapped. The Kidnapper, known as Kabir will only negotiate with Raina. What is his agenda?… Is it simply to torture Raina or does he have a more sinister motive? Kabir does not demand a ransom; instead he wants to play a game. A twisted game. The game requires Raina to be on the run and complete a series of ‘tasks’. He must follow the Kabir’s every order and Raina is not a man used to taking orders. If Raina completes every task successfully his daughter lives, if he leaves even one task incomplete… And Kabir is watching his every move… What will Raina do in the world where all his money and power mean nothing? And control has been snatched away from him. His daughter’s life hangs in the balance…
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