Director: Kabeer Kaushik

Producer: Vijeta Films

    This hellish feature picks a grave topic and turns it into a 1990s nightmare with Bobby Deol planning 

a murder one minute; walking out of the meeting to make a bunch of kids cross the road the next; running into Priyanka Chopra and dissolving into a song right after. And that pretty much sums up the film.

Chamku (Bobby Deol), born as Chandrama Singh, and lived as an assassin for RAW and other intelligence agencies as Chaman Varma, began his life in a village with his family until a complaint registered by him against a criminal, enrages a local goonda who shoots his father dead in front of him before turning to him. As luck would have it he is saved by a naxalite leader who teaches him the ways of their clan and Chamku begins to call him 'Baba' (Danny Denzongpa). Once again in a shoot out by the police this entire family is wiped out as 'Baba' too is shot dead before his eyes and he just manages to survive or rather he's spared by the police who seem to have an ulterior motive.

The intelligence forces want to use him as a political assassin and the movie continues monotonously through various killings, his affair with Shubi (Priyanka Chopra), a school teacher, and finally his desire to quit the business after he finds out she's pregnant.

The plot is uninspiring; the characterization is weak or rather non existent. For a character like Chamku who's been to hell and back he sure is laid back not to mention brainless to be taken in by the most simple traps. The scene where he decides to quit the business after seeing a close friend mercilessly slaughtered right after he tried to pull out, and then looking shocked when he realizes he's been betrayed isn't the most intelligent one one would have expected from a sensible director. If RAW is hiring the likes of Chamku as their agents, India's done for.

Priyanka's character seems to walk in and out of the film as she pleases while actors like Rajpal Yadav, Danny, Ritiesh Deshmukh have pointless cameos and are completely wasted.

The film tries to use Bobby Deol's stoic expressions to its advantage. Needless to say it fails miserably. His expressions just don't change no matter what the situation, be it seeing all his loved ones get killed one after another or being betrayed. At best he has a glycerin filled eye dropping a tear or two here and there. Priyanka Chopra walks around looking good for Bobby's sake. Irrfan Khan does the best he can do with an average script.

After Sehar, which was perhaps just as frenzied, one wasn't expecting too much from director, Kabeer Kaushik, but to fall short of even those expectations is an achievement on its own.

The music and background score has to be the worst point of the film. Reminiscent of the 1990s yet again, a number of these misplaced songs break the flow of the film. The background score is loud and garish.

Better editing could have relieved the audience from a lot of painfully stretched scenes. Cinematography, however, is up to the mark; the same can't be said about the fight sequences which still rely on throwing punches rather than use better fight sequences as the audiences have been exposed to in Krrish or perhaps in the trailers of Chandini Chowk to China. Especially for an intelligence assassin, one would expect martial arts or agility as the forte besides throwing weight around.

All's not bad in this film however. It can serve as an excellent unintentional comedy for those millions of jobless college kids who've exhausted other forms of entertainment. After all laughter is the best medicine.