BOLLY REVIEW : Tees Maar Khan (2010)

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.

BOLLY REVIEW: Mission Istanbul (2008)

I had the great fortune of discovering this movie called "Mission Istaanbul" starring Zayed Khan and Vivek Oberai. It falls in the category of "Its so bad that its fun". I would put it in my hall of fame movies along with "Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani" (# 1 in my list), "Qahar", et al.

Zayed Khan is Vikas Sagar, an IIT graduate with a computers degree and working for Aaj Tak as a journalist. He has absolutely no work experience in computers but is supposedly a computers expert (the expertise in which field? Not mentioned). He is infamous for his face-to-face interviews with the terrorists who put on a mask while recording a murder video but forget about it during the interviews. Vikas decides to move on to "Al Johara", a news channel in Istaanbul, for better opportunities of terrorist interviews. "Al Zohara" boss is a crooked looking, suspicion raising individual who is doing some confidential activities on the highly secured 13th floor of his office building. "Al Zohara" has a hall of martyrs room with portraits of all the journos who died mysteriously during the terrorist interviews. Sunil Shetty is the latest victim of Al Zohara. Vivek Oberoi plays "Rizwan Khan", a mysterious local, who keeps warning Vikas of the dangers at Al Zohara. He is supposedly a cool guy who can do loads of action with both hands and guns. Rizwan is capable of single handedly gaining access to the 13th floor but needs a computer expert to hack into some system. That is where Vikas comes into picture. The rest of the story is how these two guys unveil the mystery behind the 13th floor.

The movie is extremely entertaining due to its unintentional humor. Watch it to believe.

Highly Recommended for the same reasons as "Plan 9 from Outer Space".

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