Moving away from the usual song and dance films, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's new film "BLACK" starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukharjee in the lead role. The film is all about a deaf and blind girl and
When Karan Shahââ¬â¢s (Khanna) father refuses to cough up the extortion, slow-talking don Baba Sikander (Chakraborty) issues orders from a snow-bound cabin in xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Austria to have him killed.
Karan vows vengeance, but in his mission to extradite most-wanted criminal Baba, he ropes in ex-cop Arjun (Rampal), who pulls in ex-Baba hitman Abhimanyu (Abraham), who drags in ex-girlfriend Sonia (Dutta) ââ¬â you get the drift.
The only person who glues herself to the task is pesky Aaj Tak reporter Priya (Patel). She has a one-in-a-million boss ââ¬â he allows her to go gadding about from the Dolomite mountains on the Italy-Austria border to Venice to Munich on Babaââ¬â¢s trail, but with no sight of a news story afterward. Priya also falls in love on the job, with a numb Karan.
Arjun is the brains behind the mission, so he plots a heavily-tattooed Abhimanyuââ¬â¢s outlandish break from Vashi jail. Abhimanyu is the smart-talking Veeru from Sholay in this plot. All five close in the don, eliminating cronies like Sadela Salim, played by an equally sadela Chunkey Pandey.
They follow Baba across Europe, at the cabins/hotels he holes himself in or the ice hockey match he watches, Dawood-style. Baba seems always one step ahead, but countless bullet sprays, a couple of explosions, few betrayals and a sacrifice later, he finally faces trial in an Indian court.
The exotic locations makes viewing breezy and for an actioner, the makers got the stunts (Abbas Ali Moghul) spot on.
Besides, filled as it is with former models, Elaan automatically becomes easy on the eye. Rampal is endearing as the good cop, but heââ¬â¢s super agile when he lunges off massive trucks and sprints along Venetian canals. Abraham with his tapori act and a sulky Patel provide the odd chuckles, while Dutta steps into the glamour stilettos. Khanna tries hard, but is just too stiff as the avenger who bankrolls the whole mission. Itââ¬â¢s Chakraborty who pieces it together, though. Despite some corny lines, his menacing presence is convincing don material.
Director Bhatt doesnââ¬â¢t quite work up to the stuff of Awara Pagal Deewana, but with the half-entertaining Elaan, heââ¬â¢s moved above the agony of Aetbaar and Footpath. xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
