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Bollywood
brings you a version of Face Off
Aks
is not an easily discernible title, so it is easy to
infer that the story of the film will shun the run-of-the-mill
genre.
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Sure,
first-time director Rakesh Mehra has drawn heavily from Denzel
Washington's Fallen and John Travolta's Face Off, but it bears
its own unique stamp. After all, this is Bollywood.
Very little is known of how Mehra led the storyline from the
original and evolved it into his own baby. Aks is the story
of a police officer (Amitabh Bachchan), who is a devoted husband
to his wife (Nandita Das) and a loving father to their daughter.
He is dedicated and bullish enough to get what he wants.
Right now, he is hot in pursuit of a psychotic criminal Manoj
Bajpai. Raveena Tandon is a hot club dancer with oomph in
abundance and a past that involved the psychotic killer (Bajpai).
Her character has shades of sensuousness and sensitivity,
and this makes for interesting watching. On the fateful day,
Bachchan and Bajpai's souls interchange bodies, and this is
a new dilemma. For you have Bachchan with evil seeped into
his soul, and Bajpai suddenly dons a new identity...
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