Creative Quotient:
Statutory warning: This story may discourage potential recruits into the espionage network. Chandrama Singh (Bobby Deol) who has witnessed his father being shot dead by the village thakur escapes and is brought up and given the name Chamku by his mentor (Danny Denzongpa) who makes him a trained Naxalite. When their group is gunned down, Chamku is given an offer by an undercover intelligence officer Kapoor (Irrfan Khan) to work for the country and is trained for the job. Everything’s fine till he falls in love with a schoolteacher (Priyanka Chopra) and dreams of a normal life and therefore wants to quit the force. But that’s something the system will not permit. Chamku is now a marked man - but not from the enemies of the nation.
Technical Expertise:
A tight slice of reality - that’s what the film would have been had it not compromised on convictions and its straight storyline. Filmi cliches like the housekeeper, the half-baked romantic track complete with the pregnancy cliche and the father’s murderer re-surfacing as a big-name politico are all straight out of the last three decades. Kabeer Kaushik’s debut Sehar was one of the grittiest thrillers of the millennium, but here he seems to be undermined with commercial compulsions - possibly because his brilliant debut did not set the box-office on fire. Yet one cannot deny that Kaushik maintains the intensity, the punch in the action (Tinu Verma) sequences and the touch that makes some oft-seen sequences not seem even remotely stereotyped. But the end could have been less simplistic. The songs and the RGV-esque background scores are traumatic on the ears, unlike their counterparts in Sehar.
Bobby shines with his brooding intensity. Danny, Irrfan, Ninad and Priyanka have little scope and Akhilendra hams. And Riteish Deshmukh, Deepal Shaw and Arya Babbar are wasted.
One star for Kabeer’s storyline and definite narrative punch, one for Bobby Deol’s perfect pitching and one for Tinu Verma’s crackerjack action
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