The Traveller

For me the main fun about Sanjay Gupta movies is trying to spot the originals. Even a cursory glance at Aatish (For a Better Tommorrow), Khauff(Juror) or Kaante(Reservoir Dogs) reveals the original.S o here I am at Anand Theatre, with a "black" ticket in my hand, muttering to Ritesh , "the whole first half has gone and this Musafir seems to be a original" ( Except for the wild things-que car-cleaning romps by a hoary sounding Koena Mitra ).Scandalous!!
But wait, 2 Thums Up and a bag of chips and popcorn later, sanity prevails, reason returns and all is well with my moth eaten seat. As a over the top (whats new?) Mahesh Manjrekar and a sultry Sameera try to entice Anil Kapoor (dude, the 5'o clock shadow look doesnt work) into their plans, the tubelight in my medula oblongata flashes and lo, voila!! the Sean Penn, J LO starrer U-Turn comes to the fore . Damn , I chide myself , should have guessed it from the hand injury. Anyway, as for the movie, its the familiar "all style and no substance stuff" from the stable of Sanjay Gupta. True inheritor of the Mukul Anand legacy , I must say. Sanjay Dutt is the producer of this flick and expectedly hogs all the profane dialogues and the skimpiest girls. A bald Aditya Pancholi impresses, while Sameera expectedly simpers. But girl, if you are planning to stay with the Reena Lamba's ( Mallika Sherawat for the ignorant) and Neha Dhupia's, you have to improve the lip-locking technique and do better than the simpering swim suits. Anil Kapoor must be really desperate to take on such a role, stick with the southie remakes, dude.The music is not that great either. The only thing worth watching is the cinematography.
Well what can I say, I didnt have the guts to see VeerZara and Mughal-e- Azam is still housefull.