For starters, Goa runs through the veins of this movie as Rohan Sippy does with Goa as he did with Mumbai in Bluffmaster. One would expect very less to go wrong in such a setting. However, the movie can be explained in one sentence: it’s the perfect mix of cinematic awesomeness coupled with some rather awful acting.

Here, I must say that Abhishek Bachchan does try to bail the movie out several times but fails. Sadly, the only person who comes anywhere close to a good performance is (sigh) Aditya Pancholi. Prateik tries hard to act to Goan but fails, Bipasha tries to act and fails and Rana Daggubati just tries to convince us that he is actually an actor. Bipasha’s legs speak more for her than her own lines. This is also why she is in the movie in the first place. However, Anaitha Nair gives a relatively believable performance even though she has a small role to play. The truth is that all the smaller characters in the movie are better than the major ones.

When it comes to the plot, it becomes a little lengthy after a certain point. Bachchan plays Vishnu Kamath a serious, drug-busting cop whose wife and child die in an accident caused by a druggie, which leads him to become a buster from a haraami bribe loving cop. Suddenly, the same guy breaks into a rap when he brings the bad guys to task. There are some clever lines in the movie which also appear in the trailer but many-a-times; they sound cheesy and a little clichéd. The movie gets boring towards the end with a turkey of a climax.

Amit Roy’s cinematography tried pulling Shridhar Raghavan’s weird-ass script to a point where it works. In fact,  the cinematography laced with dopey transitions and effects is what is actually good in this movie. The movie has been given an uber-cool treatment in terms of colour (sun bleaches, red light shots). Some of the night shots that have actually been shot during the day look very realistic and the cinematography owes its roots to the guerrilla style of filming. The action sequences look awesome for the same reason. Of course, most of these fancy effects have been seen in a lot of movies before but it’s a new thing in Bollywood – maybe it helps! The background score by Karsh Kale and Midival Punditz is pretty kick-ass but some all, of the songs by Pritam are a little annoying. (How many times can one listen to Ti Amo throughout the movie?) Thank god for the title track which is another good thing that the movie brought along.

Final words: Dear Rohan Sippy, take Shridhar Raghavan with you, holiday in Goa for a bit and maaro some dum yourself. Oh, make sure you get a better dubbing artist if you intend on getting a Southie superstar in your next film.