Tashan

Tashan, Vijay Krishna Acharya's directorial debut, lacks style and is needless to say that it does not live up to the hype. The plot is threadbare and fails to impress the audience.

Bhaiyyaji (Anil Kapoor) is a don who wants to make it big on the international arena. For this, he hires a call centre executive-cum-English teacher Jimmy Cliff (Saif Ali Khan) to teach him Queen's English. Pooja (Kareena Kapoor) is a beautiful Indian girl who works for Bhaiyyaji. She woos Jimmy with her simplicity. Pooja tells Jimmy she needs to marry Bhaiiyaji as her father owed him money. Together they hatch a plan to steal Bhaiiyaji's Rs 25 crores and elope. But Pooja swindles the money and leaves Jimmy.

Bachchan Pandey, (Akshay Kumar) a local goon, takes Jimmy to Haridwar and the two manage to find Pooja. This is where the viewers learn that Pooja is hot and sexy. Bachchan becomes a victim of lust and falls for her. Jimmy and Pooja use this to the hilt as the latter seduces him. Bachchan in an intoxicated state tells Pooja of his long-lost childhood love, Gudiya. Pooja claims herself to be girl he had fallen for and has him wrapped around her little finger. But Bhaiiyaji not only wants his money, but also wants Pooja and Jimmy dead. Bachchan is now caught as he is about to lose the woman he loves - yet again.

Saif Ali Khan is a misfit to his role. Being a naturalistic actor has quite been made to overdo his role as a bratty English speaker. His girlfriend (Kareena Kapoor), gives a good skin show. She looks hot, but the blonde wig and tarty red dress are unmistakably smacks of Paris Hilton. Her teensy denim hotpants seem to show her a bit too starved and too lacking in curves. Anil Kapoor is far too away from his usual style and again his attires don’t seem to gel with him. Lastly, there's Akshay Kumar portrayed as a dirty and stubbly person. His role as Bachchan Pandey is a bizarre but with his overpowering and irresistible screen presence he tries to salvage the film and steals the show.

There are some moments of credit to the film, a few lines of dialogue and some shots that are good to watch. The first half starts off with a promising note but gets more and more serious as it goes along becoming an outright action film.

The songs are good to listen, thanks to Vishal-Shekhar. All the numbers in Tashan are unique in their own way and get on to you quickly and make you play them repeatedly.

All in all, Tashan is an expensively told tale with style, yet lacking substance.