Suggestion: Just look at the picture postcard vistas, if you must.
Strangely, John Abraham acts either with his mouth half or wide open - as if he were sitting on a dentist’s chair. Of the cast, Arshad Warsi has the best lines and does them absolute justice. Despite Amitabh Shukla’s knife-sharp editing chops, Kabul Express moves like a slow boat to China. Set in Afghanistan, the film documents the journey taken by two journalists endeavoring to interview a member. Besides that, gags like the bumming of Indian cigarettes and the comparison between Imran Khan and Kapil Dev suggest that the script just didn’t have enough material for a full-length feature.Īlso do note the cliches - a Khuda Gawahish buzhkashi scene, an interlewd of cleavage gazing and the inevitable allusions to the popularity of Mumbai’s movie stars.įrankly, you expected far more spleen and substance from this fact-inspired adventure thriller. Synonymous with romantic epics, Yash Raj Films's Kabul Express is quite a departure. Throughout, Kabir Khan’s politics seem muddled eventually the Taliban is defended and sentimentalised, given a dil-jigar, you know the Yash Chopra drift. Incidentally, Lady America even proclaims that "in their hearts all journalists must know that whatever they do, it is never enough". The rest of the quintet on board the express comprises a temperamental Afghani (Dour Expression) and an American news photographer (Linda Arsenio, passable).
That turns out to be a cloak-’n’-dagger elderly gent (Salman Shahid, over dramatic). Over to Indian TV reporter (John Abraham) and his video-pal (Arshad Warsi), who long to scoop-interview a surviving Taliban man. In fact, the Afghan backdrop is the star of the show, marvellously photographed by Anshuman Mahaley. Both Arshad and John impress, but it is Salman Shahid who takes the cake with his portrayal of a hardcore Taliban and a father who wants to take one last look at his daughter before he returns to Pakistan after the war.John Abraham and Arshad Warsi in a still from Kabul Express.ĭespite numerous gaffes and glitches, this Express trip is at least a shade different from all the Rio de Janeiro scapes and Dubai beachfronts you’ve been flown to of late. At times tragic, at times comical, Kabul Express sets off at an extremely slow, with the director establishing the story with some beautiful, eye-catching backdrops in that desolate land.
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