Khiladi 786: Oh My God, no!


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Starring: Akshay Kumar, Asin, Raj Babbar, Mithun Chakraborty, Himesh Reshammiya
Rating 4/10
Ikattar, bahattar, teehatar, chauhatter — yes, one does go on counting — rather desperately — how many more minutes he or she has to sit through this brainless blunder from the Akshay stable.

Considering Khiladi has always been a big player in this genre, one was really bewildered to see how astray Akshay and his purported charisma had gone in 786, the seventh in the series. 

Besides Akshay looking flabby and disinterested in the entire proceedings is only one of the many reasons this one doesn’t click. An over the top attempt to cash in on the public’s penchant to go in for kitsch with a promise of humour, Khiladi 786 fails to keep you there for most part of the movie. 

There is no storyline of any worth, there is no sizzling chemistry between Akshay and Asin — the latter going for a strange man who is always behind bars for some reason — a Hyderabadi who wants to go settle down in Bangladesh.

Besides the fact that Akshay’s Punjabi family has funny names on numbers, besides the fact that all their wives are either Canadian, African or Chinese and besides the fact that goonda Mithun lends weight to the film only through his heavy moustaches — there is no other humour factor in the film which hurtles from bad to worse to worst in its long timespan. 

One wonders what Himesh Reshamiya is doing in the film. He neither invokes laughter nor makes an attempt at a weighty presence and yet a huge amount of footage is eaten up by him.

Asin looks as if she lent the movie her footage from previous movies and has little to do with whatever is happening around her.

The music is mildly interesting and the best of the lot comes with end credits by which time most have walked out of the cinema hall.

Akshay is the biggest blockbuster guy around this season but in this one he fails to get to the point. As Khiladi, there were high expectations but Chauhattar just couldn’t deliver the goods here.

Source: The Sunday Pioneer, December 9, 2012

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