Naqaab (2007)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Directors:

Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla
Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla

Writers:

Shiraz Ahmed (screenplay)
Shiraz Ahmed (story)

Release Date:

13 July 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

Sophia (Urvashi Sharma) is a middle-class girl engaged to multi-millionaire Karan Oberoi (Bobby Deol)...

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Camera | Love Triangle | Cheating Fiancé

Cast

Bobby Deol	...	Karan Oberoi / Rohit Shroff
Akshaye Khanna	...	Vicky Malhotra
Urvashi Sharma	...	Sophia 'Sophie' D'Souza
Vikas Kalantri	...	Siddharth (as Vikaas Kalantri)
Vishal Malhotra	...	Ronny
Rajendranath Zutshi	...	Detective Sam
Archana Puran Singh	...	TV Reporter
Ganesh Yadav	...	Goa Police Officer

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Filming Locations:

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Company:

Nimbus Motion Pictures

Trivia:

Shot in 22 days.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the start of the movie, when Sofia leaves Karan's home for work at Burger King, she takes her scooter but in the evening, Karan picks her from work and takes her to dinner in his car. The next morning, Sofia again leaves home on her scooter.

Movie Connections:

Remake of Dot the I (2003)

Soundtrack:

Eh Dil Tujko Pata Hai

A joke of a thriller

I always like Abbas-Mustan films like KHILADI, BAAZIGAR Off late their films are being bad like AITRAAZ, TAARZAN, 36 CHINA TOWN

NAQAAB a remake of DOT THE 1

Sadly this film is a complete joke of a film

First half is typical Hindi love triangle with everything looking fake Be it Bobby- Urvashi love story or Akshaye- Urvashi or even the too much cuts- edit and everything actually

the kiss after The EK DIN song and all the hot scenes are badly handled

Few comic scenes are fine here and there but then the film does a 360 turn and becomes even worse in the last few reels

The entire turn of events make the illogical film a farce

Imagine you are laughing at the film being typical Hindi stuff first and then when it tries to be bold it makes you cringe

The sets, wardrobe design all seem too cheap

Abbas-Mustan gives one of their worst films ever Music is saving grace, EK DIN is good

Cinematography is good

Bobby looks bored in first half and manages some scenes towards the end well Akshaye Khanna with a bad wardrobe is wasted though he manages to leave a mark as always but now his role, style is getting predictable

Urvashi reminds you of Udita Goswami and Rakhi Sawant which isn't a good thing, her voice is awfully dubbed too

Vikas Kalantri and Vishal Malhotra tax your nerves