It’s hard to tell whether a director is foolhardy, innovative or audacious to base an entire movie on a missing revolver. At first glance, Aage Se Right appears a bold attempt to spin a two-hour long yarn out of a wafer-thin cocoon. But as the movie meanders through its melee of madcap characters, with humour squeezed in even where it isn’t necessary, ‘Aage Se Right’ loses direction and appeal.
Sub Inspector Dinkar Waghmare (Shreyas Talpade) is a very unlikely cop. He has neither the swagger nor the confidence essential for the men in khaki. No wonder he loses his service revolver to a bunch of bullying teens. Determined to save his honour, he goes on a citywide hunt for his gun which takes him to the most secret dens of underworld and terror networks.
There’s a parallel track of a terrorist Janubhai (Kay Kay Menon) who comes to Mumbai to unleash terror on the city, but ends up losing his heart to a bar girl Pearl (Shenaz Treasurywala) at first sight. The terrorist relinquishes his mission and becomes a love-struck Romeo learning the vernacular one-liners from his trusted aid Raghav (Vijay Maurya) to woo the bar girl.
There’s also a TV correspondent (Mahi Gill) who lands up at every scene of crime even before cops does.
As the paths of these characters cross through the course of the story, Dinkar Waghmare, the harried cop, emerges as a hero by default.
The trouble with ‘Aage Se Right’ is that its gags fail to work after a while because the story gets too convoluted in the crowd of characters. The humour is not so situational, as it is character driven. But some of the characters have been turned into caricatures. Take, for instance, Menon’s character Janubhai, who keeps spouting sher-o-shayari and tapori oneliners that are less funny than just a tickle down your armpit.
Shreyas Talpade makes a sincere attempt to infuse laughter into his goofy cop but Kay Kay Menon fails miserably at comedy. In fact, Vijay Maurya and his two bodyguards are funnier. Mahi Gill performs well and Shenaz looks pretty.
Director Indrajit Nattoji did not ensure a taut script to begin with. On top of it, the comedy borders more on slapstick than wit, making ‘Aage Se Right’ a ho-hum flick rather than a laugh riot.
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