A mammoth star cast and a big canvas. Review on Qayamat

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The Story

Ali (Arbaaz Khan) and Abbas (Sanjay Kapoor) along with Laila (Isha Koppikar) are arms dealers, working hand-in-hand with the ISI. Together, they plan a dangerous game. A game that will get them millions of Rupees and an escape route from India.

Rahul (Aashish Chowdhry), a scientist, is in the process of creating an anti-virus, which would help save lives in case a biological or chemical warfare breaks out. But this deadly virus is smuggled out of the lab by Rahul's colleague (Chunkey Pandey) and lands into the trio's dangerous hands.

Ali and Abbas threaten to blanket Mumbai with the virus if the Chief Minister (Anjan Srivastava) doesn't meet their demands.

Akram (Suniel Shetty), a CBI officer, puts down a plan of action. He needs the help of one man. A convict – Rajat (Ajay Devgan).

Rajat has a dangerous past. Today, he has degenerated almost into a vegetable. Drugged by doctors because memories of his love Sapna (Neha Dhupia) make him violent.

A dangerous journey into the unknown world of dreaded criminals begins…

Review

Undoubtedly, Qayamat is the most technically superior film churned out by Bollywood in the present times, but some of it is the same old Bollywood masala... like Suniel Shetty getting hit by numerous bullets, almost killing him... but he just gets in time to save Aashish Chowdhry; Ajay Devgan 'seeing' laser trips by spraying some 'gas' on them?!?!?!..........

From the writing point of view, writer Suparn Verma has taken the essence from The Rock, merged it with the oft-repeated and oft-witnessed good versus evil formula and garnished it with pro-India, anti-Pak references.

The film starts off very well, but the story stagnates once Ajay Devgan's romantic past is unveiled. The songs that follow in rapid succession are sure to test the patience of the viewer.

Nadeem-Shravan's music sounds good to the ears, but looks forced in a film of this genre. In fact, a couple of songs come up without valid situations whatsoever.

Performance

Ajay Devgan enacts his role quite well. He emotes well with his eyes in the second half. Suniel Shetty was also quite good. Arbaaz Khan and Sanjay Kapoor also enacted well. Neha Dhupia, Aashish Chowdhry and Riya Sen were okay. Chunky Pandey was 'awesome'... the way he enacted his role seemed he has never been in front of the camera!!!

Overall

Overall the film's storyline is quite good, but there's toooooooooo much of special effects and bollywood masala in it.