Editor-turned-director Yusuf Khan's Khel is an average entertainer with necessary emotional ingredients like friendship, love, jealously, betrayal and deception all packed into a thrilling drama.
The movie tells the story of two friends - one poor, one rich. While the poor guy is humble and takes the life as it comes, the rich one walks with swagger, talks with pride and is possessive about anything that touches his heart. And along comes a girl who likes the poor guy. But her charm touches the rich guy who must now have her at any cost. What next? Predictable as the tongue of politicians.
The rich guy hatches a conspiracy and gets the poor one behind bars so that he can 'have the pudding' all by himself.
But wait! There is a Good Samaritan cop who would foil his plans.
There are no two opinions that the movie is based on a stale story and a predictable plot, but what holds a viewer's attention is Yusuf Khan's cinematic presentation and the continuously changing graph of the movie.
Sunny Deol's punch-packed entry in the second half may give goose bumps to some frontbenchers, but it is certainly kitschy for a serious viewer. Apart from this, Sunny delivers a good performance and thankfully cuts down on his hollering act.
Sunil Shetty looks classy and suave but he still puts on a bland expression before the camera. All these years of experience before the camera seems to have done him little good.
Celina looks gorgeous, but that is all to her. She needs to work on her dialogue delivery, voice intonation and facial expressions. Ajay Jadeja is forgettable.
On the whole, Khel holds your attention because of the clash between Sunny and Sunil in the second half and a nicely implemented climax.
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