Ab Ke Baras

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Ab Ke Baras

Credits
Producer/s:	Raj Kanwar
Director:	Raj Kanwar
Cast:	Arya Babbar, Amrita Rao, Ashutosh Rana, Shakti Kapoor, Ashish Vidyarthi, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Vivek Shauq, Sanjay Gandhi and Danny Dengzongppa
Music:	Anu Malik
Lyrics:	Sameer

Some films are destined to bore you. Renowned director Raj Kanwar's latest flick falls in this category. Made of a lacklustre plot, Ab Ke Baras is thoroughly dull and dry in every department. Seeing this movie, one would definitely wonder how a director of Kanwar's calibre could make such a senseless film.

It's a story of rebirth involving Anjali (Amrita Rao) and Karan (Arya Babbar). She is an NRI girl who comes to India after feeling strong magnetism of her previous life. Her uncle Sikender Baksh (Danny), a cop, was waiting to take her hold on the airport. To escape from him, she gets into a car dickey. Karan is a small time burglar who steals the car and that's how they meet. On their way of discovering love for each other, they come across a drug peddler (Ashish Vidyarthi). They run away in his jeep, which has drugs worth millions in it. Now, both the villain and police are after them. A bullet injures Karan and with that, he reminds his last life.

Karan was Ajay Singh then and was killed by a traitor Tejeshwar (Ashutosh Rana). Today, in the second life, that killer has reborn as a politician. That's what happens in this movie before the director starts wrapping up things. With lack of depth, continuity and imagination, the film has turned out into a testing fare for all.

The problem with the movie starts with its story, which is loosely written by the director himself. The screenplay writer duo Robin Bhatt and Sutanu Gupta has only added a few more hurdles in the smooth execution of the story. Dialogues by Ravi Rai are also just okay. Even the musical score by Anu Malik is not up to the mark and only one song, Mahiya, is good to ears. Cinematography by Ishwar Bidri is average and editing by Kuldeep Mehan has many cracks.

The film has innumerable problems in continuity. Like, the hero and heroine catch a train from Delhi, reach Switzerland and alight on a platform which has a name Kat Godam but the hoarding on the backdrop speaks something else, hero's hair are shown long and short in every changing frame, the so-called special effect is also so poor that one cannot stop laughing on it.

The poor narrative has resulted into poor performance from the top-end cast and the new lead pair as well. While Amrita Rao hardly creates any impact, Arya has a lot to learn if he wants to give serious competition to his contemporaries. He is just fair in emotions but lacks good dancing and action skills. Ashutosh Rana does justice to his role with his trademark stuff. Shakti Kapoor is loud and it's a pity that Danny is wasted like a side artiste. Ashish Vidyarthi is okay and others lend the needed support.

Ab Ke Baras is not a movie for any particular class of the viewers.