Race (2008/I)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Directors:

Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla
Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla

Writers:

Shiraz Ahmed (screenplay)
Shiraz Ahmed (story)

Release Date:

20 March 2008 (Kuwait)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

Plot:

Ranvir and Rajiv are half brothers who own a huge stud farm in South Africa. Ranvir is a very shrewd and aggressive man while Rajiv is laid back...

Plot Keywords:

Alcoholic | Secretary | Murder | Detective | Bimbo

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Bipasha Basu	...	Sonia
Gurpreet Guggi
Katrina Kaif	...	Sophia
Anil Kapoor	...	Inspector Robert D'Costa
Akshaye Khanna	...	Rajiv Singh
Saif Ali Khan	...	Ranvir Singh
Johnny Lever	...	Max - Marriage Registrar
Sameera Reddy	...	Mini
Dalip Tahil	...	Kabir Ahuja

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Ireland:12A | India:A

Filming Locations:

South Africa

Company:

Tips Films Pvt. Ltd.

Trivia:

Ajay Devgan was first offered the role of Robert D'costa, and loved the script, but turned down the movie because he wasn't keen on doing an intense action film.

Goofs:

Factual errors: They show an insurance policy status letter of a dead person. The status of policy reads "Active" instead of "Terminated".

Movie Connections:

Remake of Goodbye Lover (1998)

Soundtrack:

Dekho Nashey Mein

Too twisted

Abbas-Mustan always made good thrillers earlier their films were regular commercial films with twists

Nowdays they tried too much to go the Hollywood way and over twist their films, NAQAAB was a disaster

RACE is actually a typical Hindi film, you have saute-la brother, you have songs, dance, a twist and some idiot funny characters

The director tries to put twists but sadly the plot goes overtwisted and ends up too stupid

The film starts off okay, the accident is badly executed and i was sure the technicality of the whole film will be similar

The story is actually too done to death but the director tries to employ twists as i said but ruins it

The film goes on well till interval though but post interval the Anil Kapoor character ruins things and then the film becomes laughable

The film gets predictable and also too much overtwisted as I said and it doesn't make sense

The re emergence of Saif was predictable and also is the last chase

Abbas-Mustan tries hard to make a twisted film but he fails Music is good Cinematography is good Akshaye Khanna looks out of shape and acting wise this is just a repetition of HUMRAAZ and though he is good yet it's become predictable now Saif shows style, charisma and enacts his part very well, the show stealer Bipasha is good in some scenes, ordinary in many Katrina is bad Anil hams while Sameera irritates