We
begin with a Jeep pulling up to a nice looking estate. A disheveled and drunken
man steps out of the driver's seat, and takes a pull from a flask. Shoring up
his courage, he then begins to make his way towards the house. We also notice
that he's got a rather large tank of what can safely be assumed to be gasoline.
The man pushes open the gate and lets himself into the house, where he is
confronted with the glassy stares of several mannequins. After a wobbly stare
around the room, he begins to fling the contents of his container all about the
place.
When the tank is empty, he pauses for a moment, as well as for emphasis while
he strikes a match. With a less than determined cackle to himself, he throws the
match to the floor, igniting the gas. The mannequins burst into flame and
merrily burn away. We then see a silhouette of another man in the room. Since we
have two unnamed guys and they're about to interact, I'll call the gasoline man
Alpha and the new guy Bravo. Bravo has brought a lightweight chain with him, and
we can see he's got the ends of it wrapped around his hands, leaving a
neck-sized length of slack in the middle. Bravo approaches
Alpha from behind, and yanks on Alpha's neck with the chain. Alpha struggles
valiantly, but is unable to free himself from Bravo's clutches. Finally due to a
mixture of burning mannequins and being choked, Alpha collapses in a heap.
Bravo
is seen fleeing the house, and he stops at the end of the path leading to the
gates. He turns back to look at the house, and we take a peek inside for
ourselves. We see Alpha is still out cold (well, probably hot since the place is
burning and whatnot), and the fire has spread to some descriptively marked
barrels of "chemicals." Unfortunately for Alpha, these are the kinds of
chemicals that react violently to fire, and the entire house explodes in a giant
fireball while Bravo watches from outside.
We have to step back a moment and collect ourselves, so the movie takes us
into the credits.
Once again, the credits seem to be where a lot of the money was spent.
Between these and the explosion at the beginning, I think we're going to be
disappointed with the effects after this. We'll see if I am right. At least
these are nice, with cool morphs between each title, and photo credits for
each of the main actors. The theme song is pretty cool too, with kind of a
"Mission: Impossible" and James Bond tune going.
Once
the credits are complete, we join a hooded figure as they make their way through
some debris strewn alleys. We hear the desperate cries for help from a female
voice off-screen. We cut to see who is making all the noise, and find her to be
a young lady in a reddish dress that looks suspiciously binding. She has managed
to attract the attention of quite a few young men who are up to no good. Upon
hearing her cries, the hooded figure whips his head in her direction with an
impressive "whoosh!" sound. We cut back to the damsel in distress, and watch as
the hooded man drops through a window in the ceiling of a two story building and
lands on his feet. Another dramatic toss of his head (complete with "whoosh!"
sound) flips his hood off, revealing a confident and smug young man.
Smugman begins to kung fu everyone in the place, and they're more than
willing to line up to be taken out in the order their call was received. I will
give them the credit that the fight is at least well staged, and no six to ten
inch gaps are visible between feet and faces. If you'd like to see some of
Smugman's fighting abilities, have a look.
Once
all the bad guys are down, we cut to a smiling face calling out, "Okay! Cut it!"
Aha, seems we were filming something! Kunal (the director) comes over and
compliments everyone on their performances and tells them he thinks the ad
they're making will be great. They all head off to the office to work on their
next project.
Their new client is waiting for Kunal and Sameer while he looks over pictures
of models. He seems upset that he can't quite find the face he's looking for to
adorn the cover of his magazine for the next issue. The guys tell him he's got
lots of pretty girls here, why is it so hard to choose one?
The guy replies with one of two great name-dropping spiels in this movie.
He's looking for a girl with hair like Rani Mukherjee's, eyes like Aishwarya
Rai's, lips like Kareena Kapoor's, and a cute little nose like Urmila
Matondkar's. Sorry Mr. Director, but putting their names in your movie doesn't
mean they'll come to the premiere.
