FILM
REVIEW: DUS (2005)
Actors:
Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty, Abhishek Bachchan, Zayed, Shilpa Shetty,
Esha Deol, Raima Sen, Pankaj Kapur, Jawed Sheikh, Dia Mirza and Gulshan
Grover.
Producer: Nitin Manmohan
Director - Anubhav Sinha
Music Director: Vishal- Shekhar, Ranjit Barot
Radio
Sargam Rating: 4/10
Dus, the mammoth production from the stables of ‘Nitin Manmohan’
is one of the biggest and most widely awaited release of the season.
The movie has huge production value, great music, a star cast to die
for and…ah! That’s it dude. Did we miss anything? Whatever
happened to narration, screenplay and sensibilities is way beyond us.
The movie Dus is nothing but a well made music video.
Films director Anubhav
Sinha (ASP) the director, has thrown together a big budget and an edgy
background with a high-flying ensemble cast, to make sure his film will
work. Does it? Lets see.
‘Dus’
is a film that deals with neo-terrorism. The title has nothing to do
with the film; it’s just a date that a terrorist outfit marks
for the final attack. And, the code name for the attack is Jeet. The
film has Pankaj Kapoor playing an outlaw.
Shashank (Abhishek
Bachchan), Aditi (Shilpa Shetty) and Aditya (Zayed Khan) work for the
Anti Terrorist cell in India headed by DIG Siddhant (Sanjay Dutt) gets
the Intelligence Information that some international terrorist –
Jaamwal – has planned something huge for 10th of May and they
have to prevent the plan from being hatched when all they know is the
name of the terrorist.
Siddhant instructs
Shashank and Aditya to reach Canada and thwart the mission. On their
arrival, they meet Neha (Esha Deol), who is entrusted the responsibility
of helping them accomplish this arduous task. Dan (Suniel Shetty), the
local cop tags in. Together they start unraveling a mystery which gets
more tangled with each passing day, and days they don’t have.
They manage to entrap a key aide of Jamaal, Pankaj Kapoor and then begins
a game of lies and betrayals.
Pankaj Kapoor turns
out be none other than Jamaal who uses the rat-pack as mere pawns to
finish off his enemies. His ultimate aim is to kill Prime Minister of
India who is addressing 25000 Canadians in a football station on 25th
May.
Dhoom didn’t
dilute its nothing-but-cool attitude with melodramatic sentiment. The
masala was unadulterated. This is where Dus loses the plot. The film
is meant to be ludicrous, visual, well packaged nothing. Adding typically
overdone Bollywood emotion to it just doesn’t work.
Dus never lives
up to the ‘adreline-nitrate’ it builds up with the title
song – ‘Dus Bahane’.
The movie drags under its heavy weight star cast and some excessive
baggage (Dia Mirza, Raima Sen, Esha Deol etc). The plot was interesting
and suspense intriguing. But the uninspiring direction and wayward handling
shows that Anubhav had lost grip over the script after the initial reels.
Pankaj Kapoor lives
up to his incredibly stellar reputation, and steals every scene he’s
in, seemingly without even trying. Sanjay Dutt is a wee bit too old
for the swagger, and totally comes undone at the film’s climax.
Suniel Shetty overacts once again. There’s an annoying amount
of filler, like a redundant love angle between Abhishek and an inexplicable
Esha Deol. Ditto for Raima Sen and Diya Mirza.
The camera work
is good but action sequences (especially once in Canada) seem to have
been done haphazardly.
A movie you wouldn’t
watch even on pirated VCD.
Credit:
This review was submitted by Ankit Jain of Footprints.in.
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