Wild goose chase
Movie Name: Kidnap
Directed by: Sanjay Gadhvi
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Minissha Lamba, Vijay Malvade
Showing at: City Pride Kothrud, City Pride Satara Road, Fame Akurdi, Gold Adlabs, Mangala, Inox
CAN clean-cut Imran Khan, after playing good so well, go bad with equal felicity? Not, if his director is Sanjay Gadhvi.
Curvy lass Sonia (Minissha Lamba) has an altercation with equally curvy mom (Vidya Malvade). Off she goes for a dip in the sea, all the better for us to see some more of her waist-to-hip ratio. Next thing, she wakes up in a strange house, with a strange guy (Imran Khan), with his back to her, making tea at a stove. "This is a kidnap", strange guy intones, and keeps stirring the pot. Out pops protective pa (Sanjay Dutt) on a rescue mission, which consists of a series of lax wild goose chases all over Mumbai.
Clearly, all ideas of knife-edge suspense and adrenalin rushes were very far from the director's mind when he dreamt up this long-drawn plot which mixes childhood trauma, revenge, and unhappy marriages, with less than average results.
Sanjay Dutt is a dab hand at revenge sagas, having done so many before. And Imran had shown his ability to do a superb character read in Jaane Tu…Ya Jaane Na: Gadhvi, who had created dhoom with both the Dhoom movies, swings unconvincingly between suspense and song, and gets neither right.
The overhang is evident in Lamba's bikinis and tankinis She is also plonked under a waterfall in a transparent white shift, with Imran brooding by the side. Don't say we didn't warn you.

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