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Fool N Final
Cast: SunnyDeol, Vivek Oberoi, Shahid Kapur, Ayesha Takia, Sameera Reddy and every single comic actor in this country.
Direction: Ahmed Khan
Rating: *
In an age when comic books have morphed into graphic novels and it's all about telling a story, comes 'Fool N Final', which purports to be comic book style but is just a collection of scenes designed to appeal to mentally challenged five-year-olds.
There's just no story, just a couple of scenes and songs establishing the characters (with seemingly only a tenuous connection between them), action scenes piled up one on top of the other with the occasional car chase and songs galore. How do they contribute to the big picture? They don't.
If you're at all looking for a story how's this? Munna (Sunny Deol) lives with his brother and sister-in-law (Om Puri and Sharmila Tagore) but has no idea that his brother refurbishes stolen cars and sells them. Raja (Shahid Kapur) with girlfriend Tina (Ayesha Takia) and her uncle Choubey (Paresh Rawal) are petty thieves. Lucky (Vivek Oberoi) is a fixer. Somehow the three heroes, individually and collectively, get on the wrong side of the baddies (like there was some other side heroes could get), which consist of characters known by such weird names as Moscow Chikna (Arbaaz Khan), Gunmaster G9 (Jackie Shroff) JD (Zakir Hussain) and Chowksi (Gulshan Grover). Not only are their names weird, they're pretty spaced out people themselves. How you miss your friendly neighbourhood megalomaniac Mogambo (may Mr Puri's soul rest in peace).
The funny guys turn up whenever the going seems to be getting serious, what with all these fights. But Johny Lever stays the longest. Chunky Pandey, brother of Gulshan Grover, unfortunately gets bumped off rather soon in the proceedings.
Somebody wants Munna to throw a fight which he won't, so he has to go through three painful bouts with three guys on a plank of wood suspended over the sea. Just when you wonder what next, Lucky is beaten and we're back to where we started. Eventually, someone has pity on the viewers and the film is finally over with the ends all neatly tied up, the diamond, which has been the bone of contention through the film, sold and divided, every man getting his rightful girl and what not.
Not one performance stands out. In fact, you wonder what made the actors actually agree to do these roles. Vivek's role for example, is awfully abbreviated; Ayesha has perhaps two expressions and three dialogues while Sameera has even less to do.
Director Ahmed Khan's last film 'Lakeer' was an exercise in futility. After seeing 'Fool N Final' one has begin to think of it as a masterpiece.
