Sun…Sun…Sun To He Hawa… That is the first line in the hit song ‘Mausam’ from the new Hindi movie ‘Kidnap’! Starring loved- by- everyone- in- JTYJN Imran Khan, the film has released on 2nd Oct (Gandhi Jayanti) in cinemas worldwide. It also stars Minssha Lamba (bikini babe in this flick!), Sanjay Dutt and Vidya Malwade (the latter looks way too young to be a mother!) The story… Vikrant Raina (SD) and his wife (VM) are divorced and living in different countries. VR in USA and VM in India. They have one daughter, Sonia (ML) who lives with VM. Sonia is your usual happy- go- lucky sort of girl. She declares this by performing in a song in the beginning of the movie. “Hey ya…say S for Sonia!” Oh yes, you know your spelling, babe! Anyways, one morning VM and S for Sonia have an argument about whether VR is going to be invited for her b’day. VM refuses (Doh! They’re divorced!) Sonia storms out of the house. Apparently she relieves her stress over her mother by going out swimming in the ocean. Amazingly, the ocean is clean, which is quite a miracle in modern India. Name one clean sea or ocean in India, or at least one that looks as picturesque as the one Sonia goes swimming in. Then she goes too far in the water. And then…she is snuffed out (meaning chloroformed, not killed!) by none other than our hero, Immy. She wakes up in a room which is unlike her own (Doh! He’s not gonna take her back to her house!) She sees Immy, who’s first line is “This is a kidnap…(cue music) tan tan tan taaaaann..” She doesn’t believe it for a while, and when she finally does, demands to be taken back to her home. In the process, she knocks over the cup of tea he offers her. He grabs her by the neck, and asks (politely) her whether she remembers what happened that morning. She remembers and he lets her go, he’s not gonna keep choking her. Then Immy calls up VM. “Where is my daughter? What have u done with her?” etc. etc is asked. Then IK demands the phone to be handed over to VR. “But Vikrant is in the US!” wails VM. This is where IK lets out that “Vikrant Raina is in India!” In this way, the films runs on and on in an endless cat- and- mouse- full- house chase. With SD being the mouse and Imran the cat. Imran Khan leads Sanjay into an endless maze full of notes and nuns, all clues on how he can get to his daughter. The reason? Is explained in the middle of the film. Vikrant had young Imran (aka Kabir in the film) imprisoned at 14 years. Ok, how does Minissha Lamba magically change into spanking new outfits on every day of her kidnap? How thoughtful of Imran to bring along a selection of her favourite clothes while kidnapping her. What sort of kidnapper lets his victim wander freely around the house, and even go to the beach to take a bath? To work on her tan? And Sanjay Dutt’s hydrophobia goes unexplained. So many questions that the audience has are left unanswered in this film, and the end results made everybody want to tear out their hair! Music is OK, both Minissha Lamba items are catchy, an extra song (Mera Ek Ada Shola…) has to be shoved in somewhere, it’s a Hindi movie. Thank you Imran, for not making us go to sleep in the theatre because of your gr8 performance that kept everything going! Amrita Dhamankar |
