Every step you take, every move you make... we'll be watchin' you. Have altered the lines of a famous song. For, this one's applicable for Subhash Ghai, a proficient storyteller.
There are many firsts to this mainstream popcorn flick - first time a gay couple is made to look normal and not ‘caricaturish’, first time that a traditional Indian mom accepts her son's gay status and also the first time the hip, fashionable heroine bares her professional and personal insecurities admitting she's '27, single and my job sucks!'.
This 22nd Bond film packs in all the de rigeur features of Agent 007's exploits - chases, fist fights, raining bullets, air drama, exotic locales, betrayal, revenge, haunting past and of course the leggy ladies.
The very premise of Chetan Bhagat's novel One Night @ a Call Centre rustled with excitement as God made a call to the troubled characters of the story, has been marginalised to a brief cliff-hanger scene in the film. But on the whole the story mostly stays close to the original novel.
'Dhoom’ maker Sanjay Gadhvi is back with his pet plot - the con game. But this time it's a vendetta saga with boy versus man theme where the kidnapper boy leads the man on a treasure hunt with clues galore.
The story unfolds like a thriller, never mind the lack of pace though. It keeps you guessing. If only the writer had built up Harry's bonhomie with Shabnam some more and also perhaps thrown more light on the enigmatic filmmaker.
