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'Teesri Aankh' Better be shut

By Nikhil Kumar
Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com

Novelty doesn’t always lie in picking a new story. It lies in the way a story is told. Despite a relatively fresh theme of the story of ‘Teesri Aankh’ (although we saw a similar theme a few months back), the movie turns out to be a crappy collage of clichés.

It is advisable to rest your thinking and reasoning faculties while watching ‘Teesri Aankh’. The movie’s story develops through illogical turns. And the action is ridiculously unbelievable – Sunny Deol plays the obvious superhero who flexes muscles, breaks bones, takes on half-a-dozen baddies single-handedly, kicks cars out of his way and stops speeding bikes with his bare hands.

Hey!

Are we living in the real world?

The movie is about people who use modern technology to covertly make pornographic films and pictures of women. It is also about those who are victimized and those who vow revenge.

ACP Arjun Singh (Sunny Deol) is cracking down on a pornographic racket run by Sudama Pandey (Mukesh Rishi) from London.

On the other hand, Sudama’s henchmen Dinesh (Mukesh Tiwari) and Dinesh (Murli Sharma) trap Arjun’s fiancé Sapna (Neha Dhupia) into their net.

Sapna wants to break free but is subsequently killed. Ammu (Amisha Patel), a mute girl, witnesses the murder and becomes the next target of the villains. Just in the nick of time, Ammu’s sister comes to her rescue.

In the meantime Sunny Deol, who is searching for a lead to bust the porn racket, miraculously discovers Ammu’s whereabouts. What happens thereafter is pretty predictable. Arjun Singh breathes fire, bays for the baddies’ blood and obviously emerges triumphant in the end.

The story of ‘Teesri Aankh’ bears a resemblance to the one of Mohit Suri’s Kalyug that we saw a few months back. But the way Harry Baweja tells the story and develops the plot to the climax – with many a cinematic liberty – takes the thrill away. Songs are placed oddly and there is a flashback sequence that steers the story off its rails.

Sunny Deol does exactly what he has many times before – giving an intimidating look, hollering, showing his masculine strength and a bit of stiff-legged dancing in a song.

Amisha Patel wears a persecuted look. She seems to have mastered the art of looking cowered and frazzled. Even her sign-language part doesn’t look natural.

Neha Dhupia is adequate in the role written for her. The villains – Mukesh Rishi, Ayub Khan, Mukesh Tiwari, Murli Sharma – are stereotypical.

In a nutshell, ‘Teesri Aankh’ is not even a timepass entertainer. From the beginning the story takes a predictable route and Sunny’s machismo is thrown in at regular intervals. And the action and stunts in the second half gives you more giggles than goose bumps.

Worth a miss.

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