Director Praveen Kumar is unable to exploit talent of Vinay Pathak and Rajat Kapoor in this film. Though the film boasts of excellent actors like Vinay Pathak and Rajat Kapoor, the plot in itself leaves a lot to be desired for.
The film revolves around Keshu (Anand Tiwari), an intelligent youth who nevertheless gets kicked out of school for a prank played during exams and is forced to accompany his trucker father on his journeys. The father himself is someone who helps Naxals smuggle weapons and corpses in his truck while dispensing lectures to his son on 'hard work'. Unnecessary to say, the aloof Keshu pays scant attention to the paternal advice and spends time with his loafer friends.
Things get exciting when Sapna (Sita Ragione Spada), the Indo-Italian niece of an upper caste doctor in the village comes to the small Bihari village to conduct research on Madhubani paintings and captures Keshu's heart. A smitten Keshu follows her around and manages to persuade her that he can work as her guide to take her through the unknown terrain for her research.
On the other hand, before he can express his feelings for her, Keshu catches her getting cozy with another firang Mike who she introduces as her boyfriend. The heartbroken Keshu decides to move out of her life and mopes around the village, snapping at everyone around him.
Another twist is added when Sapna gets kidnapped from ransom in broad daylight and at the firmness of his friends and Mike, Keshu decides to rescue her by roping in the help of an alcoholic cop Tokan (Vinay Pathak), who is brokenhearted over some woman and keep hitting the bottle to deal with the frustration of a failed career.
Together, the band of unlikely heroes scours the countryside and finally manages to rescue fair Sapna and expose the SP (Rajat Kapoor) as the mastermind behind the kidnapping scheme. The rescued Sapna is reunited with the pleased Mike and Keshu accepts the situation and steps away courteously.
However the dialogues are good adequate, the situations seem to jump out of nowhere. Sapna, who earlier claims to be itchy with Keshu's attentions, suddenly gets friendly with him right after a song... to the extent of defying her uncle who warns her against hanging out with the loafer Keshu. The Superintendent of Police, who is actually the mastermind behind the kidnapping, comes in person to pick up the ransom money when he could have easily dispatched a henchman for the same. Vinay Pathak's individual tragedy, which pushed him to start drinking, is also not explored…
As far as acting performances, Tiwari puts in sincere efforts and so does Pitobash, who plays one of his friends. Rajat Kapoor and Vinay Pathak seem totally wasted in the film as they don't get much to do. Sita, the female lead doesn't astonish at all. The camera work, however, is worthy of a mention, particularly in the scene which leads to Sapna getting kidnapped, portrayed through a series of mirrors (from a barbershop mirror to a vehicle's rear-view mirror) located at different places in the scene.
On the whole, it is an average film.
The film revolves around Keshu (Anand Tiwari), an intelligent youth who nevertheless gets kicked out of school for a prank played during exams and is forced to accompany his trucker father on his journeys. The father himself is someone who helps Naxals smuggle weapons and corpses in his truck while dispensing lectures to his son on 'hard work'. Unnecessary to say, the aloof Keshu pays scant attention to the paternal advice and spends time with his loafer friends.
Things get exciting when Sapna (Sita Ragione Spada), the Indo-Italian niece of an upper caste doctor in the village comes to the small Bihari village to conduct research on Madhubani paintings and captures Keshu's heart. A smitten Keshu follows her around and manages to persuade her that he can work as her guide to take her through the unknown terrain for her research.
On the other hand, before he can express his feelings for her, Keshu catches her getting cozy with another firang Mike who she introduces as her boyfriend. The heartbroken Keshu decides to move out of her life and mopes around the village, snapping at everyone around him.
Another twist is added when Sapna gets kidnapped from ransom in broad daylight and at the firmness of his friends and Mike, Keshu decides to rescue her by roping in the help of an alcoholic cop Tokan (Vinay Pathak), who is brokenhearted over some woman and keep hitting the bottle to deal with the frustration of a failed career.
Together, the band of unlikely heroes scours the countryside and finally manages to rescue fair Sapna and expose the SP (Rajat Kapoor) as the mastermind behind the kidnapping scheme. The rescued Sapna is reunited with the pleased Mike and Keshu accepts the situation and steps away courteously.
However the dialogues are good adequate, the situations seem to jump out of nowhere. Sapna, who earlier claims to be itchy with Keshu's attentions, suddenly gets friendly with him right after a song... to the extent of defying her uncle who warns her against hanging out with the loafer Keshu. The Superintendent of Police, who is actually the mastermind behind the kidnapping, comes in person to pick up the ransom money when he could have easily dispatched a henchman for the same. Vinay Pathak's individual tragedy, which pushed him to start drinking, is also not explored…
As far as acting performances, Tiwari puts in sincere efforts and so does Pitobash, who plays one of his friends. Rajat Kapoor and Vinay Pathak seem totally wasted in the film as they don't get much to do. Sita, the female lead doesn't astonish at all. The camera work, however, is worthy of a mention, particularly in the scene which leads to Sapna getting kidnapped, portrayed through a series of mirrors (from a barbershop mirror to a vehicle's rear-view mirror) located at different places in the scene.
On the whole, it is an average film.
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