Producer: Crown Films Director: Sanjay Khanna Cast: Sunil Shetty, Anupama Varma, Mukul Dev, Pooja Batra, Shakti Kapoor & Mohan Joshi

Ittefaq, directed by Sanjay Khanna, runs into several tracks simultaneously. A villager (Mukul Dev), by sheer chance, manages to nab two notorious criminals and lands up in the big city with the booty. He falls in love with a poor-little-rich-girl, Pooja Batra who’s run away from home. Some songs and dances later, he’s an eyewitness to a murder being committed.

Enter Sunil Shetty, a once-upon-a-time-cop turned bounty hunter, whose favourite pastime is pulverising bad guys for breakfast. Sunil offers Mukul oodles of money to reveal the identity of the killer even as real cops, led by Shakti Kapoor, cross all boundaries of buffoonery in a bid to extract information about the killer.

It looks like the film was made whenever the producer ‘coincidentally’ found his lead stars together in town. It is full of continuity glitches which results in several unintentional gaffes.

Sunil Shetty is wasted in a thankless role, as also Anupama Varma who sashays in-and-out of the frame as the macho man’s love interest.

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Even hard-core action fans will be disappointed with this movie. A dismal affair, it fails on every count. Technically and musically it’s a no-no. Even the director seems directionless.
To be strictly avoided.

—DS

Corrigendum: In the review piece of Shirdi Sai Baba, we had incorrectly listed Renuka Shahane’s name in the credit list. The correct entry should read as Kishori Shahane Vij.