shootout at lokhandwala

i wonder whether film makers actually believe that young men are as stupid as the intended audience of this awful film. taking a real life incident and turning it into a gruesome silly mindless sham is a crime. the guys in charge do not know what they are doing. the camerawork tilts, zooms in and out in sudden spurts like a tv soap. bombay was sepia tinted in the early nineties, didn’t you know? there is no move that is not too cheap for the film to take in attempting to seduce adolescent young men – the bickering peppered with expletives, heroes and villains as glamorous as models walking in slow motion with hair that bounces like in a shampoo commercial; and the grating clunky item numbers that the characters suddenly break into. all the acting is uniformly bad but would like to single out tusshar kapoors desperate attempt to be macho with his tinny voice, amitabh bacchans reprisal of all the roles he has done before as a farce; sanjay dutt and suneil shettys jaw droppingly unmodulated delivery; and all the tertiary actors who grow stubbles and cultivate a glower for intensity on screen. and to make it all seem oh-so-cool the guitar and music thumping background score that makes everything even more unbearable. undeniably the worst film i have seen this year.