<p>Khiladi786<br />Hindi (U)<br />Cast: Akshay Kumar, Asin, Himesh Reshammiya<br />Director: Ashish R Mohan<br /><br />Akshay can’t find a bride. Asin can’t find a groom. Blame it on the gene pool, or rather, goon pool. Both come from families with an impressive crime record. And it’s up to wedding planner Himesh Reshammiya to find a match for the two. <br /><br />Khiladi 786 never insists that you possess that thing called brain. And it never pretends it has one too. Good, it’s a comedy then. Sad, the funny bone peeks out only in cameos. <br /><br />As all the sidekicks scream their tonsils out, an all-decked-up Asin seems to be participating in a “flaring the nostrils” contest, accomplishing the widest point whenever she spots suitor Akshay. <br /><br />Mr Khiladi consumes several reels dreaming about Asin, dancing further away from a where-is-it plot. Now, Asin’s love, named Azad (Rahul Singh), tastes freedom in short intervals before he is thrown back into jail for his eternally goofy ways.<br /><br />All the supposed tomfoolery scales several Everests of stupidity, but one must be thankful for small mercies like Himesh Reshammiya who appears a fine actor amidst a crowd of jokers.<br /><br />Akshay punches men into pulp with his now-familiar deadpan look, and zooms off in cars till the speedometer calls it quits. <br /><br />But the action is not so extraordinary to mend all the dents it makes while pounding the script. All this while, a caricature of a don Mithun Chakraborty tries hard to cling on to some sanity, but droops, just like his moustache.<br /><br />This Khiladi is way off the mark.<br /></p>
<p>Khiladi786<br />Hindi (U)<br />Cast: Akshay Kumar, Asin, Himesh Reshammiya<br />Director: Ashish R Mohan<br /><br />Akshay can’t find a bride. Asin can’t find a groom. Blame it on the gene pool, or rather, goon pool. Both come from families with an impressive crime record. And it’s up to wedding planner Himesh Reshammiya to find a match for the two. <br /><br />Khiladi 786 never insists that you possess that thing called brain. And it never pretends it has one too. Good, it’s a comedy then. Sad, the funny bone peeks out only in cameos. <br /><br />As all the sidekicks scream their tonsils out, an all-decked-up Asin seems to be participating in a “flaring the nostrils” contest, accomplishing the widest point whenever she spots suitor Akshay. <br /><br />Mr Khiladi consumes several reels dreaming about Asin, dancing further away from a where-is-it plot. Now, Asin’s love, named Azad (Rahul Singh), tastes freedom in short intervals before he is thrown back into jail for his eternally goofy ways.<br /><br />All the supposed tomfoolery scales several Everests of stupidity, but one must be thankful for small mercies like Himesh Reshammiya who appears a fine actor amidst a crowd of jokers.<br /><br />Akshay punches men into pulp with his now-familiar deadpan look, and zooms off in cars till the speedometer calls it quits. <br /><br />But the action is not so extraordinary to mend all the dents it makes while pounding the script. All this while, a caricature of a don Mithun Chakraborty tries hard to cling on to some sanity, but droops, just like his moustache.<br /><br />This Khiladi is way off the mark.<br /></p>