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'Fight Club' Keep Distance

By Nikhil Kumar
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

It is better to keep a safe distance from Sohail Khan’s latest production ‘Fight Club’.

Lack of creativity and originality in some writers and filmmakers in Bollywood often result in blatant copies from Hollywood. Although ‘Fight Club’ cannot be called a brazen replica of David Fincher’s 1999 movie of the same title (starring Brad Pitt), it still borrows the basic plot from the Hollywood flick and then adds some desi masala – songs, romantic angles and a few twists – to come up with a visually slick but soulless movie.

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the host of actors in the movie – Zayed Khan, Ritesh Deshmukh, Dino Morea, Sohail Khan, Sunil Shetty, Ashmit Patel, Rahul Dev, Ashish Chaudhary – and beauties like Dia Mirza, Neha Dhupia and Amrita Arora fail to compensate for the lack of an engaging story.

The movie, directed by Vikram Chopra, tells the tale of four friends – Vicky (Zayed Khan), Karan (Dino Morea), Somil (Ritesh Deshmukh) and Diku (Ashish Chaudhary). Fun, frivolity and fights are the primary indulgence of the four friends.

The quartet decides to form a fight club that will provide people with the service of settling scores with enemies.

On the sidelines are two romantic angles, courtesy the curvaceous babes Anu (Dia Mirza) and Shonali (Amrita Arora).

Story takes a turn when the four friends go to Delhi for an assignment in a nightclub that has been at the receiving end of the ire of a few dangerous and notorious gangsters.

Things become grave after the killing of the brother of Anna (Sunil Shetty), a powerful and influential man. Anna vows revenge.

Two men are behind the evil plot – Dinesh (Ashmit Patel) and his brother Sandy (Rahul Dev).

As the battle lines are drawn, the four friends call on their invincible buddy Sameer (Sohail Khan) for help. Equations change with the coming of Sameer. The handsome bouncer also finds love in Komal (Neha Dhupia).

What follows is a series of serious fights embellished with action and stunts that scorn the laws of gravity.

From a point of view, ‘Fight Club’ is full of clichés. The fun and hilarity is plain average at best, the fights are engaging but not enthralling and the mandatory dance numbers featuring Amrita Arora and Dia Mirza are nothing more than mere fillers.

The script, as if, keeps a provision all through not to test the acting skill of any actor to the point where his/her shortcoming may be exposed.

Zayed Khan looks very natural playing his part, while Ritesh Deshmukh is too much of a frolicker to fit the Fight Club. Dino Morea is uptight while Ashish Chaudhary leaves no impact at all. Sohail Khan is fine enough, but such roles are becoming a tad repetitive for him. Sunil Shetty, as usual, relies on his limited emotive range. Rahul Dev acquits himself well.

Among the ladies, Dia Mirza leaves a mark, while Amrita Arora’s demeanor lacks natural ease. Neha Dhupia, with her sulky shades as usual, has a marginal role.

To sum it up, ‘Fight Club’ is a stylishly shot movie that has beauty of form without any substantial content.

A WEAK PUNCH

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