Zameen

From the previews, I was expecting another great Ajay Devgan flick. However, Ajay's role is not that powerful. The protagonist is actually Abhishek Bachchan. Bipasha's role is pretty insignificant. There are a lot of extraneous scenes before the actual plot begins to take shape. The climax is the saving grace of this film.

Yet another fascist hindutva ideology film, portraying muslims as terrorists. Amateurish action, poor acting and very bad story. The typical indian police force and army bull$hit movies.

This is a good film to watch if you wanna see some real action.

Story is about an army colonel and a Mumbai ACP who, after years of separation over misunderstandings, are forced to work together again due to circumstances to fight a group of terrorists from Pakistan who hijack a plane to get their arrested leader released from Indian prison.

The good - Full of action and stunts, some songs, Acting on both Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan's part, some hilarious and hard hitting dialog delivery, the cinematography.

The bad-the plane hijack which was poorly coordinated, a little weak editing, some overacting on the actors part.

Otherwise the film is good.

Rohit Shetty before starting with crap comedies did a serious film ZAMEEN

The film had his friend and star in every film Ajay Devgan and Abhishek, Bipasha

To start with The KANDAHAR episode is used in the film which was used in YEH DIL AASHIQANA and recently in the crap HIJACK

That is only half of the film rest is all mandatory commercial stuff like songs, dance, fights in slow motions, ego hassles.etc

Abhishek's character is similar to Bachchan's in KAALA PATTHAR the outline at least of his character that of a person who is known as a loser

The film is like a Sunny Deol film with patriotic dialogues often ridiculing Pakistan and stunts in slow motion

The film looks comical at times though it's briskly paced mostly it somehow doesn't get that attention grabbing and ends up being a routine action film Direction by Rohit Shetty is so-so Music is okay

Stunts in abundances are overdone

Amongst actors Ajay repeats his act and got repetitive with this type of roles but he was good compared to rest Abhishek too does a great job though he reminds of his father too much for his own good, Bipasha looks too animated Mukesh Tiwari is as usual rest are okay

I am not a great fan of Abhishek but it was this movie that made me to start noticing him seriously. The main storyline is anti-terrorism keeping in line with success of movies like Pukaar, Gadar, Hero etc.

The main protagonist Abhishek shouldering a failed past is ACP Jai who has been assigned the mission to curb the terrorists and bring them to task. Joining him on this mission is his ex-boss Ajay Devgan in a smaller role as a head-strong and strict disciplinarian miming Al Pacino. He does not have a heroine (good - Bollywood is coming of age!). Bipasha plays Abhishek's love-interest and is Air-hostess by profession (reason: climax!).

The action scenes are a definite highlight and do match Hollywood standards.

The climax is inspired from Air-India hijacking episode and could have been enhanced if Die Hard 2 was made as a bench-mark. What about Abhishek - yes, he is definitely improving. He gives a restrained performance in scenes lamenting of his failed past (reminisces of BigB in Kala Patthar). And Kajol, please take a dentist appointment for your hubby.

Taking into account that its directors debut movie, which is not too bad for a beginner and compared to the shoddy movies pouring in dozens, Zameen does have a few interesting points which make it watchable.

Verdict: A poorly marketed movie which otherwise had good potential.