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Movie Review: Shortkut – The Con is On

The tagline of this one is rather appropriate. It stars Akshaye Khanna and Arshad Warsi, so you figure that this will at least be a decent film. Therein lies the con.

This one doesn’t even start out on a good note. It’s dreadfully slow, and I found myself almost falling asleep a few times. We start out with the lives of Shekhar (Akshaye) and Raju (Arshad), both struggling to make it big in Bollywood. Shekhar as a director, Raju as an actor. Through deceit, Raju makes it, and then I don’t know what the point of the story is. Amrita Rao is thrown in as Akshaye’s love interest. I wonder why she would even bother with a film like this, she’s barely there, and when she is, she’s pretty much useless other than showing off her body (which I am totally jealous of, but it was all just unnecessary).

The songs aren’t even worth watching, which is a shame considering it’s an SEL soundtrack. The only song I liked was Kyun Hota Hai Dil Deewana, the others I left.

Overall, this one is a big disappointment. I was really hoping for a nice comedy film I could laugh at, but those moments were few and far between. I don’t remember even laughing out loud at anything in this one. Guess I should have watched Love Aaj Kal instead.

Rating: ★½☆☆☆


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