Tees Maar Khan, Farah Khan's third directorial venture, starts interestingly with a voice-over of Sanjay Dutt and a very innovatively amusing, James Bondish title sequence involving a baby Tees Maar Khan(TMK) learning the trades of con from his mother's womb. This, unfortunately is the singlemost comic sequence in this wannabe comic caper gone completely haywire.Based on Peter Seller's After the Fox, TMK tells the story of Tabrez Mirza Khan a.k.a. Tees Maar Khan (Akshay Kumar), a self-flattering con artist who takes pleasure in bragging about himself with not-so-funny one liners. He is surrounded by his incompetent assisstants Dollor, Soda and Burger (if these names are meant to be funny then I don't get it) and has a girlfriend(Katrina Kaif) who is dabbling in the Z-grade exploitative cinema to make it big as an actress. Aatish Kapoor (Askhaye Khanna) is a big Indian star actor who is obsessed with the Golden statuette ever since Anil Kapoor has made it to the Oscars. Then, there are the Siamese twins, the Johri Brothers (played by real life twins Rajeev and Raghu) who want to rob the antiquities that the Indian Police is transporting from Mumbai to Delhi in a heavily guarded non-stop train. The brothers seek the help of TMK who apparently is the only mind which can plan the great heist. And what does Mr.TMK do? He concocts a plan to shoot a fake film in a small village though which the train would pass and use the villagers as the cast. And this would provide him with enough men to stop and rob the running train. He also cons Atish Kapoor and convinces him to act in the film by posing as the great Hollywood director Manoj Day Ramalan. So much for the greatest con.
As uncontrived the plot is, the dialogues and the screenplay, for which Sirish Kunder gives himself the credit (without any mention of the inspiration), seem to have been written for two year old toddlers. There is hardly a line that had made me smile, leave alone a hearty laugh. However, Sirish does a great job as a composer for the racy title track, which also serves as the theme score for the film. The remaining songs composed by Vishar-Shekar are mediocre except for "Sheela Ki Jawani" which has already taken the whole country by storm. But, the placement of the song itself should have been more strategic. It comes and goes so early in the film, leaving nothing worth waiting for.
Somebody should enlighten Akshay Kumar that comedy is not shouting out dialogues at the top of your lungs. He has been demonstrating this technique for a while now and has managed to deliver this year, four disasters in a row with Houseful, Khatta Meetha, Action Replay and now TMK. He completely misunderstands the genre of tongue-in-cheek and makes the biggest contribution to this debacle of the movie. Someone more intelligent would have done a pretty decent job even with this character. Perhaps, SRK, who has been consistently good with such humor. Katrina Kaif is a complete miscast as a bimbo who doesn't shy away to do whatever it takes to make it big as an actress. However hard she may try Katrina can never look cheap. But then again, she is also the savior here with the ultra catchy and super sexy "Sheela Ki Jawani". You just can't keep your eyes off her in this track. Akshaye Khanna does good in parts but the uninspired script wears him out. The remaining characters again are cast horribly. Rajeev-Raghu as the comic villain twins, Murli and Ashish as the CBI couple, Arya Babbar as the Village Inspector, none of them really work.
Comedy has been Farah Khan's forte, but her last two films seem to have drained it away from her. Her sense of comedy seen in both Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om, is completely missing here. Probably, she is at her best when Mr.SRK is around. TMK for her is a really expensive food for this thought.
Please save your precious money and time and skip this disaster of a movie. Catch reruns of SRK's Badshah on television instead.
you are so right... this one can be definetly skipped
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