StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
silvan-desouza
The Usual Suspects(1995) was a superb thriller, which won critical acclaim. In 2002, Sanjay Gupta copied the first half from it and made KAANTE and rest from Reservior Dogs. While in the same year 2005, Anubhav Sinha borrowed Kevin Spacey's role from that film and made DUS.That film kept the climax revelation also same, wherein Pankaj Kapur was actually a terrorist acting like someone else. Finally Vivek Agnihotri decided to remake the film and that too unofficially. The film borrows almost 70% from that film and rest is Bollywood stuff. In the original, Kevin Spacey was the only character revealing the story, here we have an added romantic interest Tanushree Dutta. The film tries to be different too, instead of convicts in the original here we have wannabe musicians. The film tries too hard to look cool, we have actors imitate Hollywood styles. In that film An agent interrogates Kevin, here we have Anil play an egoistic lawyer, who acts like a retard many times. There is sex, sleaze everything forced in. There are scenes copied like the interval scene, the boat scene, also the end is almost similar though changed in the indianised version. The film has several loopholes like Suneil Shetty suddenly screaming that he is Murtaza Arzai for no reason. Keazer Soze is changed to Murtaza Arzai with the similar background storyDirection is decent though it's ruined due to the film being a hotchpotch version of the original. Music by Pritam is decent, Jhuki Jhuki,Halka Halka,Mummy, Bheega Bheega sa are all good songs and well picturisations(though mostly aping English songs), Khalish is a good song yet forcedAmongst actors, all mostly try to copy Hollywood style of acting Anil Kapoor does well as Krish Pandit in his own style though his accent seems odd, also he overdoes at times to show eccentric nature of the character. Irrfan Khan is awesome in the role played by Kevin Spacey, Suneil Shetty does his part well, though his accent too jars, Arshad Warsi and Emraan Hashmi are wasted in small roles, Tanushree Dutta in her second film is okay, her voice dubbed by Pallavi Joshi doesn't suit her, Sushma Reddy is okay Raj Jhutsi overacts, rest are all okay The film has weird names for characters like Rocker, Pipi.etc
anjshaik
This is a really good thriller keeps you in suspense throughout the movie ending is shocking but the story could have had more if the ending were different this movie still has the type of stupidity but it is a genius there is good elements in this movie especially the character that Anil Kapoor is obsessed with finding won't reveal the character you just have to watch the movie but it is a great story with only Anil Kapoor and Irfan Khan delivering a good performance the rest are just cheesily hanging around Sunil Shetty is a lso pretty good perofrmance it's a good movie it just lacks some elements which makes it a weak candor but otherwise it's good suspenseful it's enjoyable songs suck but the movie is good the story althoug weakened by the ending
kamdarmihir
this movie is a direct "inspiration" of the Bryan Singer's Usual Suspects. i think this should tell you most of the story. but wait.... is differently made in modern day London and the end is different. Four friends and a girl get into a web of crime and are drawn deeper into a web which is controlled by an omnipotent criminal. no one knows how he looks but he knows everyone. two friends are helped by a lawyer while the others are dead. the two friends narrate incidents to the lawyer which can confuse you somewhat but what the heck. the movie is stylishly made and is full of unpredictable sequences. thats what makes the movie better than what it could have been. all in all it is a better inspiration than the rest
myasir1180
My wife rented this movie from the local Desi video store (of course it was bootlegged) and I caught bits and pieces of it while she was watching but what caught my attention was right at the end as all was being revealed. I noticed how it was all lifter directly from "The Usual Suspects" and so I asked her to describe the plot to me in as much detail as possible. Her description was exactly the plot in The Usual Suspects. She said it was probably coincidence so to prove it, I had her play the ending scene for Chocolate and then I played the ending on my laptop side by side and lo-and behold, it was identical. It's really disheartening to see Indian movies that are exact copies of Hollywood movies and don't even give credit to the original. People who have not seen the original will tout this as a wonderful movie but those of us who know better see it for what it is, a complete rip off of a wonderful movie.
