Tashan Movie Review

TashanTashan is the perfect example of all style and no substance. The Title of the movie goes like this: Tashan-The ishtyle-the good luck-the pharmoola. The movie is plenty on so called ishtyle but lacks the good luck to rule the roost at the box office and the pharmoola also flops. Then what is the saving grace of the flick : It’s undoubtedly Akshay Kumar.

The ishtory of Tashan goes like this:

Lakhan Singh aka Bhaiyyaji loves to talk in English the way he loves running bullets through people’s flesh. Pooja (Kareena Kapoor) works for Bhaiyyaji and charms a cool call center executive Jimmy Cliff (Saif Ali Khan) to teach Bhaiyyaji toothi-poothi English. Its love at first sight for Jimmy and he falls head over heels in love with the skinny beauty Pooja.

Now Pooja lures Jimmy to steal Bhaiyyaji’s paise wala aluminum trunk. But slutty Pooja not only betrays Bhaiyyaji she also kicks off Jimmy’s ass leaving him to fend it himself in front of Bhaiyyaji. Bhaiyyaji summons Bachchan Pande (Akshay Kumar) who is junior Rajnikant and can do gravity defying stunts with utmost ease. Pande’s job is to find the sultry con girl and hand her over to Bhaiyyaji.

Meanwhile clever Pooja divides the loot and hides it in different parts of the country. After a series of boring songs we get to know ala Bollywood ishtyle that Pande and Pooja are childhood lovers and Pooja’s father was dumped to death by Bhaiyyaji. All this crap unfolds across India and is probably called TASHAN.

When I went inside the dingy theatre ( it has not released in multiplexes ) I expected stunning performance by Kareena post her Jab We Met success, Anil Kapoor post his Welcome and Race success, Saif Ali Khan post his Race success and Akshay Kumar post his Bhool Bhulaiyya, Hey Baby and Namastey London’s success. Except Akshay Kumar everybody else burned a big hole in my expectations.

Kareena Kapoor only raises eyebrows with her bikini scene whereas Akshay Kumar steals the thunder right under the noses of Saif, Kareena and Anil. The only reason I went through the three hour Tashan hell was Akshay Kumar- this guy surely rocks. With his ‘this is my rifle(the real gun), this is my gun(his crotch)- this is for shooting and this is for fun’ histrionics he is definitely an eye candy.

The most surprising thing about Tashan is that the director Vijay Krishna Acharya is the same man who had penned the blockbuster hits Dhoom and Dhoom2 earlier. He only scores on witty and humorous dialogues and I give him no points for turning such a lousy story into a movie. Anayanka Bose deserves a pat on the back for great cinematography.

Vishal-Shekhar’s music deserves a mention with songs like Dil Haara and Chaliya, all others are hard to remember.

In the end the movie will be remembered only for Akshay Kumar’s acting, Kareena’s bikini scene and all style sans substance.

Watch Tashan if you have nothing better to do.

My rating: **/5

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