Kamal Khan, Gracy Singh, Manoj Tiwari, Hrishita Bhatt, Zulfi Syed, Aman Varma

Director: Jagdish Shama

If you are a `bhaiyya' from UP or Bihar, Mumbai isn't a good place for you. `Deshdrohi', which must have been in the works long before the violence in Maharashtra peaked last month, should have been, by rights, both timely and important.

But it is so tackily produced and shoddily acted, that there is no danger of that happening. The ban in Maharashtra is only going to get people curious about a rank bad film.

Producer Kamal Khan places himself in the lead role. And a more unsuitable leading man would be hard to find, utterly unprepossessing, zero acting skills.

He plays, what else, a `bhaiyya' who fetches up in Mumbai to make a fortune. And runs into a gang of Marathi- speakers who are out for his blood. And that of his fellow sufferers from `Uttar Bharat'.

A Dawood look-alike makes the startling claim that he is the one who chooses the chief minister of Maharashtra. And you always thought that it was a duly elected seat. A wily UP-wala politician turns out to as corrupt as the Maharashtrians, leading our hero to come to the conclusion that it is the `netas' who are the `asli deshdrohis'.

An overweight Gracy Singh (last seen in `Lagaan') plays the heroine, who goes around on a motorcycle, bashing up those who bash up `bhaiyyas'. Wonder what Behen Mayawati would make of this.