Sunny Deol has been off our screens for a very long time. It appears the failure of his own film Dil lagi affected him a great deal and he has been lying low for quite a while. Its such a shame that he surfaced at all if he had to do so with this lame excuse for a film.

The film opens with a man silhouetted against a dark and orange sky. As the titles roll, we see him tampering with the controls of an aircraft. Cut to raja sahab (Deepak Parashar), a turquoise lensed magnate who is going to Delhi by plane with his wife. Their son Abbas refuses to go and remains behind with "chief" (Manisha), a friend of the family. Surprise surprise, the plane crashes and Abbas's parents are killed.

We move to six months later when Abbas having survived the trauma of his parents death, is in need for protection although I am not quite sure why it is at this point that this is decided. The bodyguard turns out to be a rather earnest cop from Patiala who wants to earn medals in Mumbai. This is Rajveer (Sunny Deol), In his first scene, we see him arrive by helicopter, jump off it. gun down the villains, dodge rocket attacks and somersault his way into becoming a hero. Sadly, this turns out to be one of his dreams. Only 25 minutes of the film had elapsed and I wished I had been dreaming.

Rajveer takes on the job of becoming Abbas's bodyguard and there then follows another 40 minutes of insufferable comedy with assorted children of all shapes and sizes behaving in a demented fashion. Joining in this dementia is Sapna (Manisha) a constant visitor to the house and naturally, through assorted musical gyrations, choreographed with little flair, love blossoms. Once the film has been padded out with all of this, we get back to the central theme. Why is there someone trying to kill Abbas? The reasons become apparent when the action moves to a mental asylum where an inmate Nazeer (Rahul Dev) tells his story.

We go into flashback, and are treated to another glimpse of the turquoised eyed Raja Sahab who has been informed that one of his employees was using his factory to give funds or the like for terrorist activities. Inflamed by this, Raja Sahab confronts his employee who, out of shame shoots his family and then himself. Nazeer survives but goes mad. However, he is now cured but uses the mental asylum as his hang out, a cover for him to do his nefarious deeds by bribing all the officials at the asylum. His mission in life is to kill the boy having successfully murdered his parents. The question is, does he succeed in getting the boy or will our valiant patiala cop save the day?

Can I really be serious by asking such a question? This is a disaster of gigantic proportions with no saving grace on any level. Everything about the film is substandard with the exception of Rahul Dev who for his first film, gives a decent account of himself. Sunny Deol has a problem. He is of the belief that the public will not accept him in a romantic role and want him only in action roles. This conclusion was reached when Dil lagi flopped and because most of his previous successes have been action films. But then Dil lagi was simply not a good film, so it flopped. Nothing to do with Sunny Deol. And what about Zor..that flopped too and that was an action film. And what about Darr, a successful and romantic film? What is he to do?

This is an embarrassment for Sunny and he matches it with a mediocre performance. He is a talented and unassuming actor and a film like this is simply not befitting of him. You wonder what Manisha is doing in a film like this and can only imagine that she did it for money. That's fine because there is not a jot of effort that she puts into her role except in her make-up and her hairstyles which do nothing to accentuate her natural beauty. In one word, she is simply awful in this film. And watching the two dance is almost as painful as this ordeal of a film. Unfortunately, they are made to do it quite often and that too to fairly lacklustre tunes by Anu Malik. The film also manages to boast of an appalling background score, all very loud and over excited. The cinematography is impressive. The boy has no charm and one is just constantly irritated by his presence. But I must say that I was delighted to see Deepak Parashar once again on the big screen. Perhaps the worst actor/hero that ever was in the history of Indian cinema, his performance here, short as it is, will bring joy to the hearts of those who miss seeing his art on the big screen…and a big plus are those wonderfully coloured eyes.

This is Padam Kumar's first hindi film and his direction is stodgy and he shows no signs of innovation or freshness in his handling. There is not a modicum of suspense in the film and not once do you believe that anything is really going to happen to the boy. The story is cliched and totally implausible especially when we come down to face masks and the like trying to pass off as realism. Grow up guys, who wants to see this kind of trash any more? One to avoid.