Sunday

Sunday (thriller)
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Ayesha Takia, Arshad Warsi, Irfan Khan
Direction: Rohit Shetty


HAVE patience and you might just begin to have a ball with this quirky little thriller. A Southie re-make, the film is a smart little teaser, but with too many loosely edited sequences, especially in the first half. But if you've managed to be attentive till the second half, you may just be rewarded for going through the first-half grind.

A bright and bubbly dubbing artist (Ayesha Takia) leads a happy girl-next-door existence in saddi Delhi, until one night she decides to party late into the night. Now nothing wrong with partying and all that, including the scratch marks on her neck and the girl-boy brawl in the pub.

But bechari Ms Bubbly has a major problem. She's completely scatter-brained and seems to forget too many things, including the sequence of events on that particular Sunday when things got wild, a girl was murdered, a cabbie man (Arshad Warsi) was taken for a ride and a small time actor (Irfan Khan) decided to play Dracula. Add to this a tapori cop (Ajay Devgan) who can't decide whether the piquant Pixar-Disney girl is innocent or suspect and you have a kabhi bumpy-kabhi breezy ride through a hatke whodunnit.

The locales of Delhi add a snazzy touch to the backdrop, especially when Arshad Warsi chooses to drive his glaring red ambie along India gate. But more than his concept cab, it is Arshad who walks away with the film as a serious guy who doesn't see anything funny in his humdrum life. Only the viewer finds him completely funny, especially when he tries to explain why the Lal Qila is red to a bunch of tourists. He gets great support in the goofy act from Irfan Khan as the thakela actor in search of that life-defining role.