Mumbai Xpress

Kamal Haasan, Om Puri, Manisha Koirala, Saurabh Shukla

There’s one obvious advantage you have going in to watch a Kamal Haasan film. You know there’s going to be an element of novelty. While the effect can be impressive (Chachi 420, Veerumaandi), at times the Tamil superstar can also go haywire in his bid to be ‘different’ (his last released Hindi film, Abhay, being a case in example).

With Mumbai Xpress, Kamal is clearly in a mood to have fun. He goes all out in an attempt to dish out a full-blown gag bag. It’s meant to be an unadulterated cocktail of slapstick and stunts and nothing else (quite unlike the tone of Chachi 420, which had genuine witty moments), and that’s precisely what the film
remains.

The plot: Digambar (Vijay Raaz) and his two cronies — codenamed B and C — plan to kidnap the son of a rich, corrupt builder Mehta (Saurabh Shukla). A day before the job, however, C has an appendicitis attack and has to be hospitalised. To pull off the job, they need a new C, so they rope in C’s brother-in-law Avinash (Kamal Haasan), popularly called Mumbai Xpress — given his original calling is driving a motorbike in a maut ka kuan.

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