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Article Updated 15 December, 2007 01:26:41 AM IST

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Strangers

Credits
Producer/s:	Uday Tiwari
Director:	Anand Rai
Cast:	Kay Kay Menon, Jimmy Shergill, Nandana Sen, Sonali Kulkarni
Music:	Vinay Tiwari
Lyrics:	Javed Akhtar

Television director Aanand Rai makes his feature film debut with this movie. And yes…this film is based on Strangers on a Train, though with a few modifications and good ones at that!

Rahul (Jimmy Shergill), a failed writer and Sanjiv Rai, a management expert, meet each other in the first class of a train traveling between Southampton and London. They start talking to each other and soon start pouring out their intimate stories. They realize that they both are leading an unhappy married life, though for different reasons. Soon a deal is stuck between the two, to bump off each other's wife.

The film is pretty engaging and in fact the last 30 minutes of the film is very good. This film could easily be considered to be the best performance of Jimmy Shergill's career. Kay Kay Menon is excellent as always. Nandana Sen's performance as Jimmy's wife is superlative. Sonali Kulkarni has very little to do in this film.

Cinematography by Manoj Gupta is very good and so is Sanjay Sankla's editing. Director Aanand Rai makes a decent directorial debut and manages to extract fine performances from his principal performers. Though the script is not exactly flawless and some questions do remain unanswered, the film is still a decent watch.

** (Two stars)