Director: Sanjay Gupta
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Anil Kapoor, Aditya Pancholi, Mahesh Manjrekar, and Sameera Reddy
Producer: Sanjay Gupta
Music: Vishal-Sekhar


We have often heard filmmakers say: "It's a different film". However, when you finally watch it, you realise that the movie does not have anything new to offer. But, this is definitely not the case with Musafir. Sanjay Gupta has delivered exactly what he had stated from the beginning - a truly 'unique' film.

The film centers on Lucky (Anil Kapoor), a young man who has had a very bad childhood. As a kid, he was a delinquent and is desperately looking out for a way to 'get back' his innocence. That is when he decides to commit one last crime before he settles down in life with girlfriend Tara (Koena Mitra), a bar dancer. The final job requires him to cheat a man belonging to Billa's (Sanjay Dutt) gang. Lucky does the job well, only to be ditched by Tara, escapes with the loot!

Billa is a brutal killer dealing with drugs and narcotics. Now Billa wants revenge and he kills four other people from Lucky's team. When Billa gets hold of Lucky, Lucky puts forward a proposal. He says that he could be of some assistance to Billa. Thus, Billa lets him go on an assignment to Goa. But unfortunately, Lucky messes it yet again while in relentless pursuit of the sensuous Sam (Sameera Reddy) who is married to Looka (Mahesh Manjrekar).

Billa reaches Goa. In the meantime, Looka hires Lucky to kill his wife and Sam also gives Lucky an offer to take away Looka's money and run away and in return give Sam her freedom.

The most interesting part of the film is that the narrative is very unpredictable. You don't know what to expect and you end up being caught totally unaware. Musafir sure has the potential to become a hit as it has almost everything that the audience is looking for - action, romance and plenty of skin show. Talking about skin show, the movie has babes 'running around' in short bikinis, a lot of kissing scenes and bed room lines. Surely, it's not something that you would like to take your family to watch.

Mahesh Manjrekar has done a great job, thanks to some of the best lines that he received in the film. Koena Mitra as Anil's bar dancer girlfriend turns luckier this time as she has three songs here and a few 'bare body' scenes. In Ramgopal Varma's Road, she had only one item number. Anil Kapoor, as was expected have given a terrific perfomance. Well, who would guess that the actor is nearing fifty! Sanjay Dutt again is good and did a nice job at playing the big bad guy. Sameera Reddy is very sensuous. It looks like the girl is here to stay.

Music by Vishal-Shekhar adds to the brilliance of the film. In fact Koena's track, 'O Sharabi Kya Sharabi - Saaki Saaki', is the most erotic number of the year.

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