If there was an award for making a stylish travelogue across India with a subversive road epic populated with moronic villains and gorgeous scenery, then this would easily be the ultimate winner.

From U-turn to in Bruges and Bollywoods own Munna Bhai to Musafir, the comic gangster caper has been portrayed in a vicariously rich variety; here it is Kapoor’s turn to be equated as a comic caricature of a Kanpuri Don to bite the dust.
It is also shameful that Akshay Kumar actually makes direct equivocal comparisons between Amitabh Bachchan and this really perverted, ragtag don.  If this is a joke it was not amusing and if it was a quip on Mr.Bachan,then it was tasteless, both on part of Yashraj and Akshay Kumar, whatever the faults of Mr.bachchan, he is far more talented than Mr.Kumar.

Mr.Kumar incidentally is called Bachchan Badmash in this rather familiar and diversionary cinema, which has everything from stylish stunts, gorgeous Kareena Kapoor in a bikini and locales to die for but alas lacks the one thing obligatory to make a good cinema a script, it seems like the Bollywood writers were on a strike and they made this as an incoherent mix of Jetli martial arts and wild west jokes in a rancid blend of somewhat stylish vendetta road drama, the fact this road does not lead anywhere is obvious after the first 20 minutes.

The songs are average except for “falak� which is choreographed in an eye-catching manner, Mr.Kaporr overacts in a clone of a revisionist Javed Jaffrey from Salam Namaste, while Saif Ali Khan has little to do except run around like an errand boy, Kareena has the best role but it is not enough.

The flashy costumes suit the overblown characters, the action is incredible in the negative sense of the word and the director is mediocre, though he has a flair for visual style but he needs a script which is less familiar then this and offers something unique rather than this bull tripe.

I learnt something today though, Mr.Yash Chopra has had a huge quarrel with Mr.Bachchan so get ready to see a Bollywood battle played out by some Bollywood baddies on the screen, whether it is a metaphor or just a bad story is anybody's guess.

For record Kareena has no screen chemistry with Saif Ali Khan and she really disappoints after get of JAB WE MET, she looks good but we need to see her in a convincing script, particularly when we know how good she is after Jab We Met and Omkara.

This unfortunately does not come near them in either entertainment or artistic cadre I feel sorry for all involved as this was a fancy project-and by the wry. What the hell is TASHAN?