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An incredibly dim-witted underwater thriller that has the most unintentionally hilarious climax since Imran Khan survived a bullet to the chest in Luck because his heart happened to be on the right side instead of the left. The underwater thriller is a formula that Hollywood has been mining for decades.

Think The Deep in 1977 or the more recent Into The Blue. You combine the dangers of the deep sea with untold riches lying beneath the shifting sands with women in various stages of undress and men who will kill to get their hands on the gold. This isn’t rocket science but debutant director Anthony D’Souza just can’t seem to get his hands around it.

Anthony has a drop-dead gorgeous location, the Bahamas; some beautiful underwater shots; nicely done motor-cycle chases; and Lara Dutta looking like a million bucks but none of this hangs together because he doesn’t have a script. Sanjay plays Sagar, a skilled diver with a laughably large paunch, who lives in the Bahamas
. He befriends Aarav, played by Akshay, who is rich and obsessed with finding the treasure lying in a sunken ship called Lady in Blue.

Sagar looks lethargic and grossly unfit but he is apparently the only diver in the world who can unearth the treasure. He refuses to do so because his father died in a diving accident on the ship. However when his younger brother gets entangled with some bad guys in Bangkok, Sagar has to reconsider his decision and retrieve the treasure. In the first 15 minutes of the film, Anthony establishes that all his heroes are Alpha Males – Aarav and Sagar wrestle a shark and the younger brother burns up the Bangkok roads on his bike. And just in case you still don’t get the super-cool attitude, Aarav declares: Duniya ka sabse bada nasha: risk. But the whole first half of the film is just the set up.

Nobody goes near the ship. And when they eventually do, they find the treasure with such ease, that you wonder why nobody else did it before them. Incidentally the chest has been lying underwater for over 50 years but the gold is still strikingly shiny.

The film’s absolute lack of logic is compounded by the low IQ dialogue. In the middle of a murderous gun battle, Lara Dutta screams at Sanjay: Kya Kar Rahe Ho. Baat Cheet Se Har Baat Solve Ho Sakti Hai. The actors supposedly went through intensive training for the under-water sequences but on ground, they seem to be on a paid vacation. Akshay, sporting a grey goatee, grins madly but at least he is in shape.

Sanjay sleep-walks through the role, perhaps hoping that viewers won’t notice the bulge beneath the wetsuit. Zayed spends a lot of time with his face hidden behind a motorcycle helmet, which is just as well because his emoting needs serious work. Clearly Anthony D’Souza has ambition. He set out to give Indian audiences a new type of exotic thriller. But he got so busy orchestrating the king-sized stars, the equally big sharks and the blinding bling of the film that he forgot the basic connective tissue: the script.

Blue is all washed up. See it if you must. Source: ndtv.com

Lara Dutta’s living out of a suitcase these days. Shooting back-to-back for one film after another, the past few months have seen the Bollywood stunner go from the Bahamas to Cambodia and London. “I have rested enough,” says Lara referring to the lull in her career last year after a rocking 2007. “Now I’m just looking forward to work and more work.”
The actress is taking her glam avatar to sizzling heights this year as she puts her best bikini bod forward in Anthony D’Souza’s Akshay Kumar-Sanjay Dutt and Zayed Khan starrer Blue. Produced by Shree Ashtavinayak Cine Vision Ltd, the film that releases on October 16 required Lara at her sexilicious best. Though she had no hang-ups about showing off her toned figure, she does admit that there’s a “lot of hard working out to get into a bikini on screen”.
“Having a good body gives you a lot of confidence to carry off any look. But the emphasis is always on being and feeling fit. That’s sexy and, yes, sexy is fun!,” she says about her hot beach look in the film that promises to catapult her into the league of Bollywood town sexilicious brigade of Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra.