There is something amiss about this
narrative. You would believe that apart from it being an old story of look
alikes and heists, car chases and romance it could still be good given the
scale and the stars who give it their best shot. However, but for a few
punctuated moments when you can all about giggle a tad, the film fails to take
off. What could have been designed as a strategic placement of two parallel
guys at work, it is at best exculpating in style, not appreciative.
Gaurav and Rishi (Siddharth Malhotra) are as different as chalk is from cheese.
While Gaurav is that straight ambitious guy who is hoping to settle down in
life with a wife, two kids and has ticked off the home in his bucket list,
Rishi is the dare devil guy somewhere in Asia working for Unit X headed by
Colonel (Suniel Shetty) alongside Yakub (Darshan Kumar). He is out there
breaking bones when not shooting policemen out of existence or junking goods
two-wheeler vehicles. There is Kavya who is conveniently sponging on Gaurav and
not before long the paths of Gaurav and Rishi have to meet. There ain’t not
much suspense about the look alikes and for a long while you feel like
screaming stop to the meaningless chase and dashes that make up for the just
about two hours script.
Before long we have the chase and hunt for the hard disc which is with the hero
and we have his former colleague and friend Yakub designing juvenile plans to
reach out and snatch it for Colonel who has a few secrets to be hidden and are
in the hard disc. So, we have a set of goons at large trying to decipher
whether Gaurav and Rishi are the same guy even as Kavya is shocked at the
hidden talents of the hitherto boring boyfriend.
What simply does not work for the film is Sid. While he carries that famous
awkward gait that made Big B famous in the initial days of his career (Ek Nazar
Gehri Chaal, Raaste Ka Pathar…) he lacks the persona to carry the script (and a
weak one at that!!) on his shoulder. He fights hard (in fact more than the
story teller) to get into two skins while it would be difficult to do one at a
time. In contrast, it is Jacqueline who adds some fizz to the goings on,
otherwise like many gentleman this Gentleman is too gentle, too boring.
L. Ravichander.