Aagey Se Right looked like the most decent film this week. It has hardly been promoted and one doesn’t have high expectations from it. It’s fairly entertaining.

Shreyas is a cop who loses his gun. Kay Kay is a terrorist who comes to Mumbai and loses his heart to an angel-faced bar dancer, played by Shehnaz. Vijay Maurya plays his aide in Mumbai. Mahie Gill is a TV reporter out for scoops. Rakesh Bedi is a commissioner whose daughter, Shruti Seth wants to marry Amit Pandit, a wannabe actor and he is against the match. Wait! Wait! Wait! Hang on!

Seems like a lot of twists and turns at the point where each sub-plot is being established. However, it smoothens out into a story about how Shreyas, a gullible cop gets entangled with all these people and enters dangerous territory while searching for his lost gun.

Shreyas Talpade is entertaining as the good-hearted and stupid cop who is a Mamma’s boy. He is extremely likeable as the confused cop who happens to be at the right place at the right time. Kay Kay Menon is simply brilliant as the Urdu poet terrorist turned roadside Romeo. It would be a delight to see Kay Kay in bigger movies. His Urdu lines are beautiful and when he mixes Urdu with pedestrian Hindi, it’s hilarious. His scenes with the South Indian gangster turned caterer are among the funniest in the movie. Kay Kay has previously played an Urdu spouting ghazal singer in Maan Gaye Mughal-E-Azam with glee.

Shenaz Treasurywala looks angelic but she cannot dance even though she is a bar dancer. Mahie Gill, who wowed us in Dev D and Gulaal doesn’t have much to do. Her make up and clothes aren’t that great either. She pops up every 10 minutes with a news byte and has one song with Shreyas called Mahiya which is quite nice. Shruti Seth plays a drama queen to the hilt. Newcomer Shiv Pandit isn’t a looker and his only job is to rattle famous Hindi film dialogues. Rakesh Bedi does well as a troubled inspector-father. Bharti Achrekar tends to get a bit annoying or jarring as Shreyas imagines her yelling at him or advising him in every scene.

Woof...that's a lot of explaining about the cast and crew of the film, all jostling for sceen time. There is a caper element to the mayhem bubbling on-screen and gives the film a zippy pace, like a bumpy ride at the end of a road where you know you would not want a cul-de-sac. The background score gets quite jarring at times, trying to elevate the story into a farce when you actually want to follow it seriously . And why does a rock score play every time a terrorist is on screen. It’s as if they are being glorified like rock stars. The story is crazy and slightly exaggerated.

Aagey Se Right takes serious subjects like terrorists and cops and gives it a comic twist. It’s a masaledaar fun ride and thankfully the humour is dialogue based. There are some spoof scenes like the Matrix-in-a-burkha scene and a Bihari Spiderman flick which are quite funny.

Some people might find the movie very confusing and noisy as there are too many characters and may not like it at all. Otherwise, it is a time-pass and almost mindless film, that makes you laugh if you manage to keep up with it. It might meet the same fate as the last Kay Kay mad-cap film Sankat City fell into; good reviews but poor turnout.


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