Anthony Kaun Hain?

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Minisha Lamba, Anusha Dandekar
Action: Very Little action, a few gunshots and couple of punches
Music: Good foot tapping numbers with the usual Himesh Reshamiyya zing
Comedy: Bearable and decent amount of humor
Tragedy: None in the end, it has a few sad set of events though
Attractions: Anusha Dandekar’s skin show, Himesh Reshammiya's music and a Red Ferrari.
Anthony Kaun Hain? Doesn’t quite live up to the expectations associated with a Sanjay Dutt-Arshad Warsi starrer. For starters, he movie revolves completely around Champ (Champak Chowdhry), played by Arshad Warsi with Sanjay Dutt having a supporting role to play. The comical standards set by Arshad in his recent movies such as Golmaal and that set by the duo in Munnabhai are found missing in AKH?.
Raj Kaushal has made decent strides from his earlier attempts at film making. He also ensures that he makes the viewer aware of him being the director by casting wife Mandira Bedi in a totally pointless, out of context, 10 second-5 word dialogue cameo. Her appearance is utterly pointless that it leaves you thinking why on earth she comes and then the connection strikes!
The screenplay by Soumik Sen wherein he carefully merges the flashback and background story and connecting the same to the present events is pretty good. Although there is comical relief in the movie it is not really funny enough. Minisha (name changed from Minisha) Lamba plays the romantic lead opposite Warsi but there is only so much that the script offers and hence has a minor role.
The key point of the movie is Arshad Warsi around whose performance and character the whole story revolves. Arshad Warsi after this year’s successes can finally say that he has arrived and the transition he has made from his first role in ACL’s debut venture Tere Mere Sapne to being a well acclaimed commercial actor is commendable. However there seems to be a stereotypical element in his characters of late and he would do good if he were to look for the superb roles such as those is Seher and Waisa Bhi Hota Hain – II.
Overall the viewers can afford to stay away from the film and wait for it to be broadcast on one of the TV Channels. Ardent Sanjay Dutt fans may want to hit the theatres but then all they can do is look forward to September 1st when Lagey Raho Munnabhai releases.

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