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Karam: An assassin’s deed and penance
11th Mar 2005 22.40 IST
By Aparajita Ghosh

In Sanjay F Gupta’s directorial debut Karam, John Abraham plays a cold-blooded assassin whose conscience is stirred after a fateful incident.

Karam tells the tale of an assassin, John (John Abraham), a hitman who kills without as much a blink of his eye. He is a pawn in the dirty games of his boss Captain. Captain tells him to bump people off and he does it without asking questions.

But one day, when John kills an entire family, his conscience is stirred as he looks into the eyes of a young girl dying. Then on, he decides to change his ways and find a new life with his wife Shalini ( Priyanka Chopra ).

However, fate has something else in store for our hero. His boss Captain faces life threat from his rival Yunus. He asks John to kill Yunus and his associates, including an industrialist, a film producer and a cop. But John has given up killing people.

Captain kidnaps John’s wife Shalini and blackmails him to kill Yunus and three others.

How John fights his way through this situation and pays back for his karmic actions is what the rest of the movie is about.

Director Sanjay F. Gupta relies too heavily on style, but he pays no attention to the delineation of characters in the story, to bring out their subtle shades and lend inner layers to the narrative. As a result Karam turns out to be a sloppy attempt to make a Hollywoodish Hindi movie out of a clichéd story.

The movie would undoubtedly have fallen flat had it not been for John Abraham who not only looks dashing but also plays his role with élan, bringing out a convincing transition in his character from a desensitized killer to a man with a repentant heart.