The greatest movie ever made..!

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Blistering performances.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

From prolific filmmaker duo Abbas-Mustan Naqaab.In this film that's set in Dubai, newcomer Urvashi Sharma and Bobby Deol play a young couple engaged to be married. It's another thing he's a multi-millionaire with a home the size of a palace, and she works at Burger King and pays him rent to live under his roof. Just days before her marriage to Bobby, she meets and strikes up a friendship with an aspiring actor played by Akshaye Khanna. Sparks fly between the two, but on Urvashi's insistence their friendship is kept strictly platonic. On D-Day, however, just moments before she exchanges marriage vows with Bobby, Urvashi has a change of heart. Up until this stage, the film made perfect sense to me, but it's from this point onwards that Naqaab turns truly bizarre. It would be unfair to reveal any more of the plot because that would give away the surprise element of the film. But believe me, you'd never have guessed where this film was going anyway, because it's so ridiculous and unimaginable. Now you're probably wondering why I'm complaining if the film is unpredictable, because unpredictable is a good thing, right? Well, there a difference between unpredictable and ridiculous, and the thing about the twists and turns in Naqaab is that they're absolutely ridiculous. For years Abbas-Mustan have ripped off popular films from Hollywood and delivered successful Hindi remakes: Khiladi, Baazigar, Daraar, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke, Ajnabee, Humraaz and Aitraaz.But with Naqaab they've hit their weakest note because it's a thriller without any thrills if you ask me. There's none of that nail-biting tension, no suspense and an anti-climax to top it all. I could pick a hundred holes in the screenplay but I don't even want to bother, because that would still mean putting in more effort than the writers and the directors have. You know one's willing to suspend disbelief if your script can convince me to make that leap of faith. And Abbas-Mustan know that better than anyone else. We've happily gone along with their stories of mistaken identities, reincarnations, double roles, death-avenging relatives, and murderous spouses.But with Naqaab they come up with something so bizarre that's it's really difficult to digest. In all honesty, I was so stunned by the banality of the plot that I was convinced this couldn't be a rip-off. It had to be some amateur writer's amateurish effort which Abbas-Mustan decided to direct. But to my surprise I discovered that Naqaab is not only a bad script, it's also not an original script. It is copied from a film called Dot the I starring Gael Garcia Bernal. The directors of Naqaab have plundered, lock stock and barrel from that obscure American film. It's not just the plot and the premise of that film that's been borrowed, even dialogues from that film have been directly translated into Hindi and shamelessly used. When a film's not working for you, you can usually find a million things to not like in it. As far as Naqaab is concerned, I have to ask if the costume designer of the film was smoking pot while at work. How else do you explain the horrifying clothes that she's draped most of the actors in—red lace gloves for the leading lady, pink satin shirt with a matching pink waistcoat for Bobby, and double-layered clothes for Akshaye. Hell, why? Also what's with all those ugly sets? From the outside Bobby's home looks like the Queen of England's holiday home, but the interiors are the kind of tasteless sets they used to construct at Hyderabad's Banjara Hills for those B-grade family dramas in the eighties. There's little one can say about the three actors in this film, they perform adequately but fail to make much of an impression and it's hardly their fault given the kind of material they're working with. Abbas-Mustan's Naqaab is far-fetched and illogical and there's hardly anything to like about it.

Karan Oberoi, every girl dreams of a guy like him, handsome, very understanding and rich. Mr. Rohit, mysterious guy who has something to do with Sophia which brings us to the beautiful Ms. Sophia D' Costa who is the heroine/villain of this story and of course Mr. Vicky Malhotra our hero/villain who is an actor who wants to fulfill his dead father's dreams. I liked this movie because it is original, not another boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, enter new boy, girl falls in love with new boy, old boy exits stage left gracefully . . . Instead the plot gradually thickens with every new scene and the entrance of each new revelation makes the viewer actually use their minds instead of wanting to just get the movie over with. We are also left with so many choices of people to crucify for Rohit Shroff's murder, The abusive but unlikely Rakesh, Ronnie and Siddarth who wanted credit for the successful movie and Sophia and Vicky, lovers torn apart by Rohit's love of money, all with a reason for revenge.

Another off beat movie for the Indian movie-goers, and it ain't that bad. Naqaab has a distinctly different style of story telling, and coupled with some exquisite shooting locations it is a visual treat to the eye. Urvashi Sharma is pretty good too. She's a delight to the eyes of every unmarried male. Although I must say the acting in this movie especially of Bobby Deol and Urvashi Sharma was pathetic. Akshaye Khanna is good, but this isn't his best of roles either.The story is like any Abbas-Mustan thriller. Ripped/adapted from classic Holly flicks. This time around its loosely based on The Truman Show, and no, SLV isn't the derived movie theme. It has a lot of twists and turns towards the end, which makes up for the pathetic first hour of the movie. At one point of time it was hard to imagine if the movie is a thriller or a comedy. The songs aren't that good, the camera work which should have been exquisite,considering video camera plays a chief role in the movie, isn't up to the mark as well.No point harping on the plot, it is basically a love triangle with a good twist in it. Its a fun watch at the end of the week, after facing the brunt of your boss' wrath.

The movie was great!!!. I saw a good Hindi movie after a long time. I have sure heard of Abbas-Mustan duo but got a chance to see their movie in Naqaab. I can see why they are making waves in Bollywood and Indian Cinema. This movie started like a triangle love story movie with a slow pace. I thought come on.... Hindi movies are always like this... but the directors kept us a question mark, nagging from where Aksay Khanna is introduced. After the interval... believe me it was racy, twists and turns, funny sometimes and finally the ending sealed the movie as one of the best movies of this year!.Bobby Deol... he comes as a multimillionaire and he is in love with Urvashi Sharma... they live together in the same bungalow in Dubai. She works in a restaurant and they planned to get married. In the engagement's's party by Urvashi she meets Akshay and subsequent meeting she falls in love with him. Bobby has played a meaty role with ease. He shows good acting in the first half as soft spoken lover and in the second half he plays/dons all kind of roles. I loved him in this movie. Urvashi Sharma.... first thing first... she has a great body, sexy eyes... my wife was jealous on her!!!!:). . A cute doll and she plays her role to perfection. Akshay Khanna.... well... he comes as a charming boy... does lot of tricks, deceives and flatters to win the love of Urvashi and us. He is good in his role, subtle in the second half. All other supporting cast have done great job to lift the movie. The movie has all elements of masala bollywood cinema and yet strikingly different from bollywood movies which has big stars like bachans or rai's or khans or johor. Go watch the movie!!!... if you have appetite for a different cinema. SriramPlus Points: Abbas-Mustan, Screenplay, Plot and all actors.Minus Points: hardly...no minuses