The film is filled with over the top loud grating scenes and sounds that remind you of a badly written telly soap.
Film: Shortcut Romeo
Cast:Neil Nitin Mukesh, Ameesha Patel, Puja Gupta, Vrajesh Hirjee
Director: Susi Ganeshan
Rating: *
Shortcut Romeo is a failed attempt at making a thriller that has no element of surprise. Instead it is filled with over the top loud grating scenes and sounds that remind you of a badly written telly soap. The deafening background score and dialogues involving a strange milk and bitter gourd smoothie (doodh ke saath karela khaoge to ulti hi hogi) leave a bad taste in your mouth.
Neil plays a blackmailer who tapes a topless Ameesha Patel having a midnight romp with her golf instructor. He threatens to give the tape to her husband if she doesn't provide him with ample money to last a lifetime. The setting moves to the African Savannah with Neil and his gang of friends caught in their own web of lies and deceit. Pooja Gupta plays the girlfriend who tries to spin the story around and give it a 'meaningful' end. Along the way Ganeshan rams one ridiculous scene after the other down our throats as you scratch your head and wonder what made these actors sign up for his harakiri.
It's just downright bad, SR doesn't make it to the 'so bad that it's so good' category of that fun film you can enjoy despite its preposterous plot. Despite being remake of a Tamil film, Ganeshan fails to make that transition and bring in that flavor of the original. He makes an utter parody of the entire star cast.
Ameesha looks like she is stuck in her Kaho Na Pyaar Hai days and her make up and styling seems frozen in time. Neil has an earnest approach to his role, but is unfortunately marred by poor writing that you can't help but feel sorry for him. He is a thinking actor and we hope that his future work reflects his sensibilities. Puja Gupta is endearing and easy on the eyes. Same can't be said about the supporting cast of Vrajesh hirjee whose racist jokes on comparing the Masai Mara women with Sheila and Munni are utterly distasteful.
Shortcut Romeo will cut you short of some valueable hours of your life. Give this one a miss.
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