Also pardon the harmless spoiler but Dino's death doesn't make any sense.ĭirector Suparn Verma adapts to producer Sanjay Gupta's school of filmmaking using similar shot-takings, sepia tones and camera angles. The climax is contrived and rushed with all characters concurrently regaining memory. Call it convenience, coincidence or nationalism but all the players of this foreign gang are Indians. But with the film's crisp runtime, perhaps the director didn't want to delve deep.Īt the very outset, the idea of a mafia kingpin (Irrfan Khan) putting together a team of seasoned players for a kidnap has been done to death and also absolutely pointless, especially when the hostage has to be merely taken at gunpoint. A good degree of density could have been induced in the drama through the identity-crisis of the characters, giving the thriller a psychological touch. But one wishes the memory loss syndrome was also exploited on an emotional level playing with the psyche of the characters. The application of amnesia to a basic abduction plot gives a novel approach to the narrative. In between these two patterns the acid effect gets diluted. Rather than maintaining-the-mystery, the scheme of the storytelling switches to informing the viewer about the real identity of the characters more than the characters themselves (a treatment used more effectively in Johnny Gaddaar). As each character is introduced in the flashback, the mystery becomes more and more obvious. While this format is initially effective, subsequently it succumbs in giving away the suspense of the plot much before the climax. The storytelling keeps oscillating back and forth in time to give a past account of each of the characters. Unable to relate to each other, these men have to unearth their identities before the outsider arrives. A phone call from a mafia kingpin (Irrfan Khan) unveils that four of them are kidnappers while one is the hostage. The exit doors are locked and there's no way out. Five men (Fardeen, Manoj Bajpai, Aftab, Dino, Danny) wake up in a warehouse to realize they have momentarily lost their memory due to a gas leak.
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