Hijack (2008)

User Rating:

3.8/10   

Director:

Kunal Shivdasani

Writers:

Gavendra Agarwal (screenplay)
Kunal Shivdasani (co-writer)

Release Date:

5 September 2008 (India)

Genre:

Action | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Airplane Hijack | Rescue

Cast

Shiney Ahuja	...	Vikram Madaan
Mona Ambegaonkar	...	Simone
Ishita Chauhan	...	Priya Madaan
Mukesh Chhabra	...	Shakeel
Ujjwal Chopra	...	Co-Pilot
Esha Deol	...	Saira
Ashwin Dhar	...	Abraham
Bomie E. Dotiwala	...	Kersi
Sunil Godse	...	Home Minister
Shruti Gupta	...	Wife - Honeymoon Couple
Harman	...	Airhostess 1
Kaveri Jha	...	Pooja
Mushtaq Kak	...	Mushtaq
Bikramjeet Kanwarpal	...	Amrinder Singh
Raja Kapssey	...	Pandey
Jiten Mukhi	...	Rajeev Malhotra
Amit Nagpal	...	Puru
Anoop Purie	...	Army Chief
K.K. Raina	...	Rasheed Omar
Rasika	...	Neha
Jagat Singh Rawat	...	Sajid
Pradip Sagar	...	Tiwari
Satyajeet	...	Rajesh Kumar
Kush Sharma	...	Bingo
Shradha Shrivastav	...	Neetu
Sillu	...	Philu
Rakesh Soni	...	Businessman
Vipul Vig	...	Altaf

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi

Color:

Color (original 35 mm prints) | Color (super 35mm)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Certification:

India:UA (original rating) | Australia:MA (2008)

Filming Locations:

Lonavala, Maharashtra, India

Company:

Aleya Motion Magic

Below Average Action / Thriller

This movie has been inspired and perhaps even copied a bit by three if not four movies - "Die Hard," Die Hard 2," "Lethal Weapon" and "Raid On Entebbe." The latter is actually based on true story while this is not. I say that this is inspired by the movies that I have mentioned and not copied for the simple reason being that there are certain points that are not quite similar and the most obvious one is songs and the other being locations. But there are others as well.

Vikram Madan, a widow and a former airline pilot, is moved to being a ground maintenance officer after the air craft that he is piloting is high jacked and in which his wife is killed. But one day he gets informed that the aircraft that his daughter is travelling in, has been high jacked and unable to forget how his wife died and unable to get any help from the relevant authorities, he decides to take action.

Shiny Ahuja could have done a better job but unfortunately, the only scenes that have helped him and his character in this movie are action scenes. But Hema Malini and Dharmendra's daughter, Esha Deol, has again shown some improvement in her acting and perhaps now, may require a good director, even though Kunal Shivdasani has not done a bad job of this but it could have been better.

Being an action and a thriller genre movie, this lacked the ingredients to serve that type of impact as such a genre movie is capable of and therefore the thriller part of it seemed not to exist even though the title says it all. Besides the action in the film, the only other item that was good to know was the facts and the figures, related to high jacking which are shown at the end. There are some flaws in this but it would be better not to mention them.

Earlier I mentioned that this was inspired by "Raid On Entebbe," I still maintain that but there are a lot of similarities as well such as those of smuggling of weapons on the air craft.

Conclusion: Unfortunately, this is an below average movie, which due to the action sequences, may not be advisable to watch with children.