Sunday Hindi Movie

Jan 25, 2008 By Ashok Nayak

Director of Golmaal is back with a comedy titled 'Sunday' starring Ajay Devgan, Ayesha Takia, Arshad Warsi and Irfan Khan

A girl's dead body is found floating on the backwaters and is first found by another girl who is camping near the lake. Police arrives and the FIR is placed. Murli Sharma suspiciously lingers in the background near the place where the body is found. This is how 'Sunday' starts off.

Sehar's (Ayesha Takia) is a dubbing artist and has a bad memory. She is followed by gunda's for reasons unknown to her. A taxi driver and his actor friend thinks differently about her. She remains confused to all these strange happening in her life. Just then she gets clues about the missing Sunday of her life, which points to a possible violent attack on her. A.C.P Rajveer (Ajay Devgan) takes up the case to sort out the complicated and jumbled up threads of Sehar's life. While trying to solve the puzzle, Rajveer stumbles upon a murder case whose clues hold up Sehar to be the culprit. Seher does not remember anything. Is Seher really as innocent as she claims to be? A dubbing artiste by day, is she also a serial killer by night?

You might find the story interesting by reading the lines above. But in real picture, Sunday is a disaster. Although the story is not that bad with a social message attached to it, the direction is pathetic, editing awful. The movie roves from one mood to another. You see gangsters who can easily pass off as buffoons trying to kill Ayesha Takia. The story gets mysterious but Rohit Shetty suddenly shifts focus and gets busy in sketching the character played by Ajay Devgan. The constant shift from mystery to comedy at most parts of the movie is a pain. The movie gets sluggish and mind numbing with the passing of each reel. The climax is meaningless and stretched beyond the threshold.

The only thing that came as a relief is the dialogues. Dialogues are well written ranging from mundane to tongue-in-cheek to witty to hilarious. Other technical aspects of the movie are a let down. The editing is pathetic. Music is another let down and is ill placed. You wouldn't remember the songs a couple of minutes after they are over.

When it comes to performance Arshad Warsi shines. He puts life into his character and emerges a winner in amusing the viewers. A very endearing act with perfect comic timing and 'on the cue' dialogue delivery.

Irfan Khan is equally competing. Wonderful expressions, excellent dialogue delivery. He is a treat. Being the center character, Ajay Devgan with his poor expressions fails to make any impact. Ayesha Takia looks great and acts well. Esha Deol does sizzle in her item song. Tusshar Kapoor in an item number… hmm..

Overall, Sunday is an average movie, funny in parts but isn't consistent… Don't go expecting an out-an-out comedy flick, you'll be disappointed!

Rating 2 / 5