The Train Movie Review

A film starring serial kisser Emran Hashmi is going to have whatelse – kissing and cavorting scenes with beautiful women. No prizes for guessing that ! The film is set in Bangkok (reminiscent of murder) where Vishal Dixit (Emran) stays with his gorgeous wife Anjali (Sayali Bahgat). The couple has a five year old diabetic daughter and she is the only link that is still binding their loveless marriage.

Rating:

Bored with his married life, Vishal while on a train journey meets Roma (Geeta Basra) who likewise is also trapped in a boring marriage. They soon embark on an adulterous extra martial affair. Time for Emran Hashmi to do what he does best.

All seems to be going fine in heaven Hashmi. Just then all hell breaks loose as there is some mysterious person who knows his secret and is bent on reveling it to Anjali. The film now turns a thriller as now all the energies of Vishal are concentrated on finding out the identity of blackmailer and stopping him from revealing Vishal’s secret liaison to Anjali and break his marriage.

There is nothing in the story, script or dialogues that has not been already written, said, or emoted on big screen in films concerning adulterous relationships. It is a rehash of all the Bollywood ingredients without a tight grip on the direction.

As far as acting goes all three major players disappoint. Emran must continue to do what he does best kissing and cavorting with women on screen and leave serious emotions to somebody else. And for Sayali Bhagat, modeling seems to be a better career option than films. For Geeta Basra a crash course in acting is what she needs and it might do something good to her non-existent acting skills.

However among the other lot of actors Aseem Merchant brings raw freshness to the screen and film altogether. Suresh Menon manages to raise few laughs but just about that. Ananath Mahadevan leaves an impression in his part.

When finally the element of suspense is revealed you realise that the movie is an Indian rehash of 2005 Hollywood capper “Derailed” starring Jennifer Anniston and Clive Owell. Watching the original Hollywood movies any day is a better idea then spending your money on an Indianised loose copy.

Cinematographer K.Raj Kumar has done an average job as he has mostly concentrated on Bangkok skyscrapers and shopping malls. Cannot blame him for that also – as there is nothing worthwhile in the movie to capture. Singer Mithoon is making his debut as music director with this movie. Music by Mithoon is fine. There are in total eleven songs in the movie. Out of eleven “Beete Lamhein” by K.K and “Who Ajnabee” by Mithoon and Shilpa Rao are good. Rest are okay.

The movie in all and all is a passable fare that would not do that well as expected always from an Emran Hashmi movie.

Rating:

© hamaraphotos.com