Ghayal Once Again Hindi Movie
Ajay Mehra went to jail in 1990 for the brazen but honorable murder of Balwant Rai. He lost his brother, his wife, his child... That was then. Today, he gets headaches because he cannot get over the nightmarish visions. Soha Ali Khan is a doctor who treats him. Ajay Mehra (Sunny Deol of course) runs a newspaper called Satyakam with a band of do-gooders who went to jail with him (or were reformed by him). His sting operations are the bane of everyone's life (including the rich and powerful Mr.Bansal who seems to be modeled on a real-life businessman in Bombay).
The movie starts rather haphazardly showing many things simultaneously inspired by the TV show 24. Thankfully, it comes together when we realise that the four teenagers need the help of Ajay Mehra who will do the right thing by running the footage captured inadvertently. The footage incriminates Bansal, his son and the Politicians in the murder of a policeman turned RTI activist (Om Puri from the original movie Ghayal).
The ruthless businessman has South African mercenaries that chase the kids beating them mercilessly for the footage. The movie goes straight into unbelievable territory when you see gun totting men chasing the teenagers through a mall (people just stare at the goings-on, as if they know those guns are fake). But when think about it, it is good action. And the kids are rather competent.
That Ajay Mehra's famous 'dhai kilo ka haath' saves the kids, destroys Bansal's evil empire is a given. What is amazing is the action (that includes one heart-stopping leap from a running train). That makes the amateurish direction (sorry Sunny pa-ji, we know your heart is in the right place), tolerable. The computer generated scenes are a tad cringeworthy because they are so obviously computer generated. But on the whole the story keeps moving on a predictable path.
This movie does not make any pretence of being anything less than an action movie. So there are no needless song breaks or ear-shattering punches. The young villain (Bansal's son, Kabir) is creepy and wicked. So awful, that when the 'dhai kilo ka haath' hits the young, wild lad, you whoop happily with others in the theater. What more do you need in an action flick?