Nau Do Gyaarah

Board Exams over. The one day I studied for each exam makes it six days. Oh me. Six days of slogging surely needs to be rewarded. So I decide that the reward must come in the form of a movie. Quick planning with Sid inevitably fails. Two such failures later, we land up at Maheshwari to watch Taxi No. 9211. Cool film. Fresh attempt. And good acting, especially Nana.

Raghav Shastri (Nana Patekar) is an ill tempered guy. Changes some twenty jobs in twelve years. Finally settles for Taxi driving while his wife thinks he's an insurance agent.

Jai Mittal (John Abraham) is the spoilt brat. Son of a millionaire, he has nothing to do except indulge in wine and women. Dad thinks he'll squander all his hard earned money. So gets a will written that will make Mr.Bajaj, his close friend, the benefactor of his 300 crore property. This comes as a rude jolt to Jai who gets himself drunk and rams his car into a tree. But he still has hope as he has an older will in which, he probably forced his father to write so, he is stated the heir. Next day is his hearing at the court. He takes a taxi to the locker room where the will lies, Nana's taxi precisely. He wants to hurry up and is unreasonably egged on by his girlfriend (Sameera Reddy). So he pays large sums of money to Raghu to go at 120kmph, to break through traffic signals and finally dash heavily into another car. Jai slips away from the accident scene but forgets his vault key in the taxi. Now both refuse to cooperate with each other. Chaos ensues and they go till the point of trying to kill each other. But finally, when Jai's on the verge of losing everything he realises the true colours of his friends, fiance and all others who claimed to be his well wishers. He thus befriends Nana, dumps Sameera, apologises to Mr.Bajaj and also manages to find himself a new girlfriend (Priyanka Chopra). And hence ends the story on a happy note.

There are lots of whacky dialogues, mostly from Nana, delivered in his usual style, uttered with perfection. Sample these:

"Samne mera maama khada hain"
"Hum dono dhakkano ko ek hi din paida hona tha"
"Teen so karod dilaya hain maine. Ab bhi phokat ka daaru peetha hain"

and "Maine signal thodne ko kaha tha. Gaadi nai" from John.

All in all, a fairly good watch. Makes for good timepass and entertainment.