Anachronic & unimpressive. Review on Teesri Aankh - The Hidden Camera

Bollywood is full of surprises. Just as u looked through a series of really innovative, well thought out, well made flicks & were on the point of telling urself that things r really changing at last, along comes a flick that resembles something that ur time- travelling cat brought in from three decades back & reassure u gently that things are just as they were.

Teesri Aankh fails to make a splash because:

1) Kalyug, dealing with the same subject, happened just a little ago.

2) While Kalyug was not exactly something to scream about from the rooftops, Teesri Aankh is even worse.

The storyline of the film is cliched, the treatment is even more. All in all, the film is hardly distinguishable from the plethora of revenge dramas that ur parents saw & enjoyed in their youth.

Sunny Deol is a cop. A gang running a racket photographing women in comprising positions through hidden cameras, traps his girlfriend Neha. She is determined to escape but gets murdered in an escape bid.

Meanwhile Amisha, the only eye- witness of the murder, is also in trouble with the goons who are chasing her with the aim of eliminating her.

Sunny learns about Neha's fate & also comes to know about Amisha. He tracks her down & together they bust the racket.

Predictable? U bet. And we are not talking about just the storyline here. The treatment of the film is anachronic & u could write that in large electric bulbs. The hero- who is actually the superhero in the three- decades back mode, takes on six or seven musclemen all alone & mouths dialogues that are as '' not again'' as they are '' fire & brimstone''. Bullets are sprayed as if coming out of a fire hydrant ; villains & their henchmen are dipped in coal- tar for character.

What is more, the central theme dealing with the hidden camera menace created by technology, gets completely overshadowed by the revenge drama. After the first hour or so, u are in danger of forgetting what the film was originally all about.

Predictably again, the performances are also the kind that leave u smiling on the wrong side of ur mouth. Sunny looks old & haggard & should learn to act his age & realise he's not Aamir or Sharukh who can play youngsters even after decades.

Neha is an eyesore. Amisha looks stunning as usual and the bad guys are mechanical & loud.

The remix number ' Assi teri gal karni' comes across as a sweet, humable number. It obviously outdoes the original number. Sonu ji's soft & inimitable vocals are a feast for the ears as usual & Abrar Ul Hague's vocals in the original number are no match to Sonu ji in the remix version. ' Titliyan titliyan' is another fantastic song by Sonu ji & Sweta. Predictably enough, Sonu ji lifts up the otherwise ordinary song. Sweta sounds marvellous too.

Cinematography is the one thing that is ever the slightest bit attractive thing in the film. Some shots in the film are attractively taken while the rest are run of the mill.

In a nutshell, the film fails to hit the maker by a large margin.