Producer: Mahendra Dhariwal
Director: Ajau Chandok
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Kim Sharma, Mukesh Rishi, Shakti Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav, Anil Nagrath, Aasif Sheikh
Music: Anand Raj Anand, Daboo Malik, Himesh Reshammiya, DJ Suketu, Pritam, Nitin Shankar, Nikhil-Vinay

Ajay Chandok makes his directorial debut with ‘Nehlle Pe Dehlla’. For the film that arrives five years after its completion we just have to say to the director ‘better late than never’. Coming back to the film, it is clearly at attempt to follow the route of narration that has been primarily followed in the 80s and 90s. This is a conventional fare about two crooks attempting to overdo each other to lay their hands on the Rs. 30 crores booty. Though the film follows the humdrum and mindless humor the end is very unexciting without offering anything different. Well it just leaves us thinking how many times we’ve seen such films hackneyed to death with an outright predictable story.

Johny (Sanjay Dutt) and Jimmy (Saif Ali Khan) are crooks making their living by stealing. Johny is obsessed about robbing expensive watches from showrooms during the day. Jimmy prefers robbing mansions at night. Both hate each other but end up in the jail for the crime. One day outside a bar they come across Guptaji (Avtar Gill) who has been murdered by villains (Shakti Kapoor, Mukesh Rishi, Aasif Sheikh and Shiva). At the time of dying he says the last words ‘Roxy Hotel, accounts department’ to Johny and Jimmy. Both of them land up at the hotel and get employed as stewards after fooling Balram (Shakti Kapoor) with their false stories.

Pooja (Bipasha Basu) is Balram’s niece and she along with her friend Kim (Kim Sharma) plan to start a hotel in Mauritius and tell Balram to set out the Goa property. Balram had already schemed his plans and seized the money with the help of Mukesh Rishi, Aasif Sheikh and Shiva and hidden it in Mauritius. Johny and Jimmy learn Balram’s plan and demand their share from the money. Mukesh Rishi, Aasif Sheikh and Shiva plan to kill Balram and grab the booty themselves. Johny and Jimmy go to Mauritius but here Balram has already been murdered. They are left with no clue, as only Balram knew where he had hidden the money. Mukesh Rishi, Aasif Sheikh and Shiva take the body of Balram to a tantrik (Supriya Karnik), who says that the dead body of Balram will only react to a Mauritian song. How the dead body leads them to the booty forms the crux of the film.

Director Ajay Chandok looks inspired by the masala entertainers of the 80s. And in today’s time to make a film that defies logic will hardly find any takers. Some funny moments in the film are lilting. Cinematography is good but music is average.

Also the acting by the top actors is not up to mark. This is Saif’s first brush with a nonsensical role though we’ve seen Sanjay Dutt doing this stuff in the past. None of t hem impresses. Bipasha is wooden throughout and Kim Sharma also doesn’t have anything to rave about. Shakti Kapoor is okay and Mukesh Rishi, Aasif Sheikh and Shiva are time pass comedians.

The film doesn’t have any promising aspect for today’s moviegoers and thus will be a stale fare at the box office.