CASH review

Such trash!
By Tushar Joshi in Mid-day

What’s it about: Remember the 4 Non Blondes song, “What’s going on?” That’s what comes to mind as I try to decipher what Cash is all about. Name-dropping comes easy to Anubhav Sinha as he puts together an ensemble cast of some of the most thankless characters ever created. Lucky (Riteish), Danny (Zayed) and Puja (Esha) play the cool trio, wearing hip clothes and showing off their camera-enhanced skills of being the smoothest thugs in the world. They work for Karan (Ajay) who looks like a cross between a failed hitman and a carnival dancer lost in Rio, traced back to Cape Town. Baddie Angad (Sunil Shetty, who I think has worn one single suit throughout the film) and his decked-up accomplice Aditi (Dia Mirza) have their eyes on three expensive diamonds. But hold on, that’s what Karan and his gang want too. Before you think this is the plot, hang on: there’s Shania (Shamita) who’s a cop (don’t let her hair extensions, lip gloss and kilos of make-up fool you). For over two hours, all these guys chase diamonds, blow up cars, dance, fall in and out of love to keep themselves occupied.What’s hot: Inspired by Michael Bay, Sinha goes for the kill with car chases, daredevil stunts, scenic locati- ons and even manages to get some foot-tapping music from Vishal and Shekhar. All this is of no avail thanks to the mindless plot.
Rating:*1/2
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Such a rash bash
By Khalid Mohamed in Hindustan Times

All right, get this straight – unless you want to waste two hours and more trying to decipher which diamond has been split into three. Why Devgan is looking stern? Why Riteish Deshmukh has regressed into childhood by going all over the place on a skateboard? Why Shamita Shetty and Esha Deol are in itsy-bitsy costumes?
Why Suneil Shetty wears itsier-bitsier expressions? Why there’s talk about Chinese mafia? Why there are Oceans 12 rip-off scenes? Why someone wants to steal the worst painting in the world? Why bombs are being planted around bridges? Why everyone’s having an intensely bad-air day? Why the action keeps switching to cartoon footage? And why..oh forget it.
Tip top tip: Don’t be RASH, don’t waste your CASH. Even an old CASHmera Shah movie would be better.
Rating:**

Indecipherable trash!
By Mayank Shekhar in Mumbai Mirror

Since this film's songs began to appear on television a few weeks ago, I meant to check for my personal knowledge the lyricist's name. The hit-track reads, "Crazy with desire, You're my mind-blowing Mahia." There's another (the better one) that goes, "Cash meri aankhon mein, Cash meri baahon mein…" The credited writer is Vishal of Vishal-Shekhar fame, evidently much better with his music than with the pen. But as you enter the theatre, you realize that piece of writing is infinitely superior still for a film that is entirely unwritten. It's merely been shot. It's set in nowhere, and is truly about nothing. At an early scene, the heroine (Shamita Shetty), an Indian High Commission cop in Capetown (or whatever it is that she plays), solemnly looks at her hero (Devgan, a top crook), and suggests her admission of love, "I love you more than possible." "Any less would not do," the hero shoots back. The leading lady thinks of an adequately poetic retort for a second, a confounded expression on her face, and timidly whispers, "Mind-blowing." She rushes away. You know from here on, the cushion on your multiplex seat will remain your only friend through the show.
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Cash can't do the Tango
By Raja Sen in Rediff.com

They say money talks.
Cash evidently believes in brevity. A Little Less Conversation, as the King sang. Except in this film, the next line is cruelly paraphrased to: A Little Bore Action.
We're perfectly fine with senseless action movies. I put my feet up and completely grooved to Anubhav Sinha's last effort, Dus. Sure, it's a loopy ride, but we aren't looking for logic if the rollercoaster's fast enough. It's a genre Bollywood largely overlooks, and if it doesn't make sense, who cares? Neither does Die Hard.
So this review isn't a tirade against plot holes or item numbers -- we're more than used to overlooking both. We're not even going to assess the bloopers. It's just that this time the action -- which frequently flipflops into amateurish animation -- leaves you distinctively sleepy. The stunts are strictly okay, at best. And that just isn't done.
In essence, there are three diamonds, and six people -- capering around fancy sounding international airports -- out to get them. Fair enough. So let's have a fun and fast little heist shooter, shall we? Um, not quite.
Rating:*1/2
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