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Writers:
Kamal Hassan (Tamil dialogue)
Kamal Hassan (story)
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Release Date:
15 April 2005 (India) more
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After having spent his entire life in Bombay's Dharavi slums, Digamber feels it is time that he takes steps to improve his lifestyle... more | add synopsis
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Kamal Haasan's career to be celebrated
 (From digitalspy. 12 August 2009, 1:02 AM, PDT)

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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Kamal Hassan ... Avinash / Mumbai Express
Manisha Koirala ... Ahilya
Pasupathy ... Chittambaran (Tamil Version)
Nasser ... Police Inspector (Tamil Version)

Om Puri ... ACP S.P. Rao (Hindi version)
Vaiyapuri ... Johnson (Tamil version)
Ramesh Aravind ... Thambu, insurance agent
Dinesh Lamba ... Johnson (Hindi Version)
Vijay Raaz ... Digambar (Hindi Version)

Sharat Saxena ... Inspector Saxena
Santhana Bharathi ... (Tamil version)

Saurabh Shukla ... Kishore Mehta (Hindi Version)
Dheena Chandra Dhas ... Raju (as Dheena)
Hardik Thakkar ... Daddu
Pratima Kazmi ... Durga, Avinash's sister (Hindi Version)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Mumbai Xpress (International: English title)
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Runtime:
152 min
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2 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Bumpy ride, 19 May 2005
Author: Avinash Patalay from Middle Earth

Masterminded by Digambar (Vijay Raaz) a perfect plan is drawn - kidnap the rich builder Mehta's (Saurabh Shukla) son and make easy money. Owing to turn of events, Avinash aka Mumbai Xpress (Kamal Hassan) becomes a part of the plan. However wrong child is kidnapped instead who happens to be ACP's (Om Puri) son. And that's just the beginning of comedy of errors.

Kamal's character was not fleshed out well. He appears to be too good a Samaritan to get involved in the kidnapping project. Inspite of the hurdles, he still takes the initiative to move the project ahead. His voice-over was not too appealing as well (wonder he did it himself!). Plus he needs to trim himself big time. His getup isn't appealing at all.

Action sequences are handled well. Background score has a heavy influence of the South hence wouldn't appeal to the rest of the audience of India, otherwise the songs are passable. In Chachi 420, Gulzar was chosen for lyrics, I wonder if he was deliberately skipped this time around.

It obvious that Singeetham Srinivas Rao has lost his midas touch and after a point gets lost in narration. The situations does evoke some good laughs. Otherwise the story has a lot of loose ends.

The ACP's role by Om Puri could have been astute rather than having a comic touch. Pratima Kazmi is okay. Wonder why ex-bar girl now single-mother Manisha is portrayed as gluttony yet Kamal decides to accept her.

I watched this movie for Kamal but it was Vijay Raaz who steals the limelight.

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