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16
December
SFX rules
Director: Mani Shankar
Producer: Arunima
Music: Kartik Raja
Cast: Danny Denzongpa, Gulshan Grover, Milind Soman, Dippanita,
Sushant Singh.
By Kavita Awasthi |
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Here we have Indians trying
to do an investigation with the aid of gadgets. Just like in the
foreign movies and this time it worked. 16 December is the story
of a retired Major General Vir Vijay Singh (Danny Denzongpa), who
is now the revenue intelligence chief. He hires Vikram (Milind Soman)
who is an ex-military officer court-martialed by him for his expert
services and loyalty to India. Their earlier team is regrouped Sheeba
(Dipannita Sharma) Victor (Sushant Singh) and Jani. They are brought
together for a mission of expose a con job done by four principal
players in the Dalal Street.
These four guys exchange and launder money with the help of coded
messages from the Mumbai telephone directory. The money, which goes
into a bank, is ultimately transferred to a Swiss bank account.
The team unearths the plot but before they could understand why
this money was routed through the strenuous zigzag path all the
four people are killed. Fulmoxxed they dig deeper. After losing
Jani in the mission they discover that the money is in a MLA's account.
They arrest the MLA but he dies before he can confess about the
crime.
Jani leaves some pics behind which helps Vir and Vikram to solve
the mystery further. It turns out that an angry army officer Dost
Khan (Gulshan Grover), who has now become a dreaded terrorist wants
revenge as it holds India responsible for the partition of Pakistan
in 1971. He wants to blow off Delhi with a nuclear bomb and uses
the money from the Swiss account to get a bomb and smuggle it into
the heart of the city. But Vir and his team outsmart Dost and save
their nation. 16 December is an honest attempt at a little different
kind of mives than we usually watch. It appeals and entertains as
well.
The special affects are not the best. Yet they are not that bad
either. It shows lot of hard work has gone into it. The good thing
is that songs have been kept in the back ground except for one-
Sheetal Nirmal. Dil mera is lovely. That one is nice but could have
been edited. Aditi Govitrikar looks good but can't act, sorry. Milind
Soman does a fair job but he still needs fine-tune himself. Dipannita
is good and sexy but is thin like a stick. Danny Denzongpa and Gulshan
Grover give performances that balance everything. This film should
click with the classes but the same can't be said about the masses.
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