Elaan

Cast: Arjun Rampal, Amisha Patel, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Rahul Khanna, Chunky Pandey, Milind Gunaji & Mithun Chakraborty
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Music: Anu Malik

Baba Sikander (Mithun Chakraborty), the mighty king of fear is causing havoc in India. He is threatening Kantilal Shah who has to pay Baba in order to stay alive. Kantilal’s adopted son Karan (Rahul Khanna) has returned to India to help his father. He convinces his father to not pay the ransom much to the displeasure of Kantilal’s daughter (Ritu Shivpuri). Baba carries out the execution of Kantilal and Karan vows to bring Baba back to India where he can pay for his deeds.

Karan recruits Arjun (Arjun Rampal) who is an ex-police officer to help him get Baba. It takes some time for Karan to convince Arjun to help him but eventually Arjun agrees. Arjun then recruits Abhimanyu (John Abraham) who is an ex-member of Baba’s gang. Abhimanyu brings his girlfriend Sonia (Lara Dutta) into the group and the last member is Priya (Amisha Patel) who is a news reporter.

Together they target Baba and his gang and run Baba back into India where he succumbs to the hands of justice. Elaan is a good action movie, which brought back Mithun to the big screen. Mithun has always been one of my favorite stars and it was fantastic watching him in one of his few negative roles. The last being in the movie “Jurmana” where he also acted in a double role and he won an award for the negative character he portrayed in the film.

Arjun is great in action scenes and so is John who is getting better which each movie. Rahul is okay but I still see him as the guy in “Bollywood Hollywood”. The soundtrack features tracks like “Dua Karna” which is an item number shot on Lara Dutta, then there’s “Dil Mein Hulchul” and “Bechain Mera Dil”. You can catch Lara Dutta in her next release “Jurm” opposite Bobby Deol.