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'Style'

By N K Deoshi
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

N.Chandra, the filmmaker who gave us such gripping thrillers as “Tezaab” and “Ankush”, comes up with a forgettable romantic-comedy caper “Style” featuring a bunch of freshers that includes Sharman Joshi, Sahil Khan, Riya Sen and Shilpi Mudgal.

The film revolves round two slap-happy college students Bantu (Sharman Joshi) and Chantu (Sahil Khan) who stands out in the college for their ability to outfox others. College is just another amusement park for them. They play truant and are admired for their expertise in ragging and playing pranks.

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they help their peers through the rough and tumble of the college life, they are showered with expensive gifts and parties by their rich friends. The pampered duo imbibe the habits of the rich though they hail from a middle-class Mumbai chawl.

But as soon as their college studies are all but over, the duo begin to realize that they will have to take the responsibilities of their life soon. One dirty prank by a rich friend leaves them stranded in a big Hotel where, unable to pay the hefty bill, they are thrown out with a black eye and a few cracked bones.

This opens their eyes to the importance of money. It is then that Bantu comes up with a brilliant idea. The duo plans to ‘patao’ two rich girls so that they can spend their life comfortably.

So, they focus their attention on rich teenyboppers Sheena (Riya Sen) and Rani (Shilpi Mudgal). But there is a problem. Sheena and Rani are miffed with the duo because of the joke they played on the svelte girls. So Bantu and Chantu set about wooing the two girls and win their love.

Then comes an unexpected twist in the otherwise-tepid story with the entry of a mysterious woman (played by Tara Deshpande) in their lives.

The film then meanders into a completely different direction as the young heroes grow out of their juvenile ways and rev up to solve a murder mystery.

N.Chandra’s directorial skills seem to have degenerated since the “Ankush” and “Pratighaat” days. All that he manages to do is create an almost unbelievable ambience of college swarming with teenyboppers in the backdrop.

The protagonists of the film are simply carefree youth who live off the largess from their wealthy friends. There is hardly anything of substance in their character.

As far as acting is concerned, all the performances are marred with frequent hamming. The comedy is puerile and the romance almost conspicuous by its absence. The music by Sanjeev-Darshan is nothing much to write home about either.

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