Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Mohnish Behl, Ashutosh Rana, Aashish Vidyarthi, Johny Lever, Master Aditya Kapadia, Shakti Kapoor, Kader Khan, Jeetu Verma, Dinesh Hingoo, Rami Reddy, Viju Khote, Dolly Bindra, Huma Khan
DVD Features: English Subtitles
Music: Anand-Milind
Screenplay - direction: Suneel Darshan
Producer: Suneel Darshan

 

Baadshah (Akshay Kumar) is picked up when he’s a young child by Sultaan (Shakti Kapoor). Sultaan turns Baadshah into a hardcore criminal who robs and kills. Baadshah comes across Sapna (Karisma Kapoor), a dancer, and both fall in love and decide to get married. On the day of the wedding, Baadshah gets into a fight with one of his rivals and can’t make it to the temple where he’s supposed to get married. He finds a baby boy, lonely without any caretakers and decides to change his way of life (and name) and be the guardian to the boy. Later, when the boy (Aditya Kapadia) is 8 years old, his biological parents (Mohinsh Behl and Shilpa Shetty) come back to take him. Sultaan also comes back to haunt Baadshah, now known as Babu Lohar, because he wants his money back that Babu lost in a deal.

The screenplay is very poor. Hardly any of the scenes seem like anything new that I’ve seen. There is also a lot of crying, which I think the director put in, so the audience would cry. But low and behold his efforts misfire, completely. All I was thinking of while watching the movie is when it would end, since there is hardly anything new in the film. The story idea itself is good, but the director and writer fail to take any advantage of it. The only plus points of the film are a few catchy songs (“Mera yaar dildaar bada sona,” “Kasam se,” and “Mausam ki tarha”) courtesy of Anand-Milind and a couple of performances.