BHAAGAM BHAAG

Bhagam bhaag starts off with a bang! Great comedy fills up the space in the first half. Almost the entire team of comedians does justice to the script, although Govinda appears to be in the same form as Tendulkar nowadays. He is just not able to deliver his lines in his impeccable style of yesteryears!

Akshay Kumar is good, but shows no difference in the type of role or acting from several of his films in a row, that have him doing comedy. Very monotonous, but still quite enjoyable, is how we can rate him.

The problem with the movie comes in the second half, where the comedy shapes up into a murder mystery. It takes you through just too many twists and turns before revealing the climax, which is a complete anticlimax (KLPD)!

Although the comedians have done their duty well, the non-comedians have performed as if they never wanted to work in the film. Can’t blame them entirely too – the script itself was very poor! Lara Dutta, Jackie Shroff, and Arbaaz Khan, all lack any shine at all. Their animations could have done better!

There was hardly any music there to take back home. ‘Afreen’ does have some good choreography, though.

To sum up, Bhaagam Bhaag will stay in your memory for some time, thanks to the comedy in its first half. But the enthusiasm in the film ebbs down rapidly in the second half. Had the film been made an entire comedy, or the mystery in the second half also handled as comedy, it would have been a watch worth twice! But now, it’s been reduced to a good entertainer for people who are in the habit of leaving the hall in the middle of a film – here interval is the point to leave!