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Credits
Producer/s:	Sahara-One Motion Pictures
Director:	Singeetham Srinivasa Rao
Cast:	Kamal Hassan, Manisha Koirala, Om Puri, Saurabh Shukla, Sharat Saxena
Music:	Illayaraja
Lyrics:	Dev Kholi

Give us more films like this. At least they are better than those pretentious, boring films that one is being forced to watch these days. Kamal Haasan's latest film is a crazy entertainer and is sure to click with kids and all those who somewhere have a kid lurking within them.

The film has all the elements to keep the audience laughing from the first to the last reel. And yes, it has loads of mass appeal. We have to add, only Kamal Haasan could dare to make a pure family entertainer in an age when skin show and sex is perceived as the new age mantra in films. As usual, he treads on yet another different path that no Bollywood maker would have dreamt of.

The USP of 'Mumbai Xpress' is the raw humour. The best part is that none of the characters are trying to make you laugh. Their normal conversations and the situations they get into are so funny that they make you laugh. The witty one-liners by Saurabh Shukla are hilarious. By the way 'Mumbai Xpress' is the name of a train and also happens to be Kamal Haasan's nick name in the film. This leads to a real comedy of errors in the climax. The film has a lot of these mistaken identities and absurd situations which are genuinely hilarious. There are lots of funny sequences but the one in which school kids are singing Vande Mataram as part of their sports day celebrations with Kamal Haasan in the background hanging from almost 150 ft. is a laugh riot.

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