Elaan - the worst ever climax

At the end of the movie, while you come out pulling your hair, there are a couple of things you don't comprehend:

1)Vikram Bhatt's direction:

a) Baba Sikandar is a dreaded baddy – though he doesn’t do anything dreadful in the movie, scores of his goons, professional shooters cant hit one shot on target - at five of the amateur fighters trapped in a hotel lobby, gets caught without resistance like a sheep, brought to courts like a lamb and then hanged like a dead chicken.

b) Amisha Patel has a software on her laptop which, given a mobile number, locates its whereabouts. Now, International Killer Baba Sikandar is poor and naïve enough to use only one cell phone and the police of three countries is naïve enough not to have this “miracle software”.

c) Shooting and firing automatic rifles is as easy as wearing navel and shoulder baring tops. Wonder why do police men and army people have to go through the rigmarole of weapon training.

2)Vikram Bhatt’s Cast selection

a) Rahul Khanna may look good as a heir to a tycoon – he doesn’t have the intensity to carry off a vengeance driven man ready to take on the feared killer who has his tentacles spread practically everywhere.

3)Leading Men and Women

a) Arjun Rampal is the saving grace. He pulls off the tough ex-cop with a calculating brain with ease.

b) John Abraham disappoints – his recent releases gave an impression that probably, he was not one of those sweet faced models fit only to shoot ads for underwears – but here, he forces one to think again. Particulrly in the sequence when he is trying to resuscitate Arjun Rampal, he looks irritating at best.

c) Rahul Khanna is bland. He can probably do rich NRI, young tycoon etc but his expressionless face kills the lead character of a dynamic man driven by revenge.

d) Ladies shed clothes and look good. Lara Dutta still saves some grace as a gun totting woman.

e) Mithun Da acts well in a half baked character. More on this later.

f) Chunkey Pandey and Milind Gunaji are as dumb and as hilarious as any of the villain’s cronies from any of the 80’s movies. Have got nothing to act in the movie.

4) Mithun Da as Baba Sikandar

a) You can not comprehend this character with any semblance of logic.

b) Probably Vikram Bhatt thought that if he has 50 characters in the movie saying that Baba Sikandar is the Devil himself, the audience will be afraid in their seats. Infact you start feeling the dichotomy after a little while – all the characters mouth dialogues presenting Baba as some kind of an Osama Bin Laden while everytime you see him, he turns out to be a wimp.

c) He kills his brother because he doesn’t want him to die like a dog in Indian prisons while not firing a single shot at his tormentors.

d) While fierce shootout is going on, he quietly walks inside a roadside room, sits and meditates as if asking Gods for Divyastras, which of course never come. Later you realize he was not even asking Gods for Divyastras. What the hell was he doing…..Mystery…..mystery..

All in all a major disappointment to all those who expected a slick stylish vendetta movie with a powerful villain – all we get is an illogical hotchpotch with half cooked characters and a confused and wimpy lead negative character. And come to think of it, Vikram Bhatt seems to have suggested it to be a modern rehash of Sholay…………Cummon now……respect some of the audiences’ intelligence too…

Watchability: 0 (Can’t even watch it once)
Rating: *