Short Kut - The Con is On

Shortkut ? The Con is On is an entertaining tale of con, deceit, super stardom and the subsequent fall. It is a story of the trials and tribulations of two con artists, a struggling director and actor, and the wacky situations they face in the pursuit of their tinsel town dreams. Shekhar (Akshaye Khanna), an aspiring assistant director and Chandu (Arshad Warsi), a wannabe junior artiste meet each other while struggling to make it in the film industry. While Shekhar is supremely talented and confident, Chandu is a buffoon and a non actor who thinks he is God?s gift to Bollywood! Chandu manages to steal Shekhar?s prized script and is catapulted to super stardom. Following this incident, Shekhar plunges into a phase of self pity and dejection, which results in his wife Mansi (Amrita Rao) leaving him. Shattered, Shekhar is now looking for that golden chance to get even with Chandu. Shot in picturesque Thailand, Shortkut comes with a generous dose of laughter and emotions that tug at your heartstrings. It comes from the production house of veteran actor, Anil Kapoor (Slumdog Millionaire) and director Neeraj Vora (Phir Hera Pheri).

I liked this movie, a lot. very good combination of tragedy and comedy. This was a stress buster for me. The best thing noticed was background seenary Simply Awesome.

I don,t like this movie Because not a good ending

i like this film.

Anil Kapoor Production comes up with a poorly executed, so called comedy, which doesn’t even a single comic sequence to talk about. In fact it simply should not be called a comedy at all, since the main plot with the actual fun element unbelievably comes after 2 long hours in the film. And before that you are enforced to see all the boring, predictable and badly written scenes which completely fail to generate any kind of interest in the viewers.

The first half talks about friends betraying each other and a stolen script which makes the career of Arshad Warsi and ruins the future of Akshay Khanna. Along with this, the love angle has Amrita Rao playing a well known actress and Chunky Pandey playing the acting guru, who manages Arshad Warsi’s filmi career. In spite of having a bollywood based concept, the movie doesn’t excite you at all and even makes you feel uneasy watching the dull and unentertaining portrayal of the movie world. Moreover it was quite weird to see Amrita Rao dancing with veterans, Anil Kapoor and Sanjay Dutt in a routine item song. Amrita just looked like a tiny young girl caught between two huge grown up giants on the dancing floor.

Director Neeraj Vora, who is known for some worth mentioning associations in his career, delivers a very childish kind of product having nothing to offer in the name of comedy. Aneez Bazmee, the writer, seems to have written the project in his extra time without any special efforts put in for entertainment. And due to this lack of spirit in the project, all the actors simply fail to deliver any noticeable performance in the movie, acting simply as their routine job. 

Arshad Warsi, tends to go overboard this time and is not able to entertain. Akshay Khanna is again loud as seen in some of his earlier performances. Chunky Pandey opts for more hamming in his scenes and that too without any comedy. Amrita Rao, finally decides to shed a few clothes and agrees to become the glamour element in the movie (though she signs only few good projects?). The rest of the cast is just there as needed with only one sweet performance by Tiku Talsania, who plays the soft hearted movie producer helping Akshay. Cinematography and Music department has got nothing more than the usual stuff to offer. So a good song needed to push a big project now a days, was surely missing. 

Story wise, the plot did have the required punch for a comedy, but it was not incorporated properly as expected from Neeraj. The movie keeps on swinging between various genres as a pendulum. And in the first half it more looks like an emotional drama than a comedy. Actually, the main comic part of the movie starts just before the climax when Akshay decides to complete his movie in an unusual style. But till then it becomes too late to cover up the mess.

However, may be this main comedy plot in the story, was pushed deliberately towards the end, as it is highly inspired from the movie “Bowfinger” released in 1999. Even the tag line “The Con is on” is also borrowed as it is from the English Comedy featuring Steve Martin & Eddie Murphy. 

With “Global Awareness” regarding Indian Movies, growing stronger than ever before, the producers may have decided to use less of the inspired plot and therefore added more angles into the story other than that. In any case, the main point is that the most entertaining part of the story, which could have resulted in a good comedy, has been strangely used only towards the climax. And due to this, the movie cannot be tagged as a Bollywood Comedy from any angle.

Though, officially “Shortkut” is said to be the remake of a Malayalam movie “Udayananu Tharam”, but that too was released in 2005, much later than “Bowfinger” in 1999. So here’s another movie from a big production house with a stamp of “Inspired One”. If asked for a recommendation, I would simply request to opt something else for an entertaining weekend.

Ratings : 1 / 5  

in this movie amrita rao is looking very hot  i think she is doing good job