‘Runway’ is starcast with all new stars includes Amarjeet Shukla, Tulip Joshi, Lucky Ali, Deepal Shaw, Shahwar Ali, Sharat Saxena, and Vida Samadzai and is directed by Suniel-Praful. 

Last years "Woodstock Villa" is a beautiful exam of a movie where a maker doesn't have any story to tell so tries to perk up the narrative by using jump cuts, freeze frames and other technical wizardry and now we can see the same in “Runway”. 

From the get go Movie passes the message of Runway is an exercise in futility. 

The leading character of the “Runway”, Amarjeet Shukla transforms into a contract killer in order to save his ladylove Deepal Shaw, who is dying due to drug usage. During the course of time he passes through the people like Sharat Saxena who plays underworld English speaking kingpin wearing dark shades and is surrounded by those 80s style left over blue-n-white drums and announces - 'I am not interested in your love story; I want brave people'. 

'He is a man of commitment, so be careful,' warns Amarjeet's friend, who introduces him to the Don. 

In the complete second half of the movie the Don is seen nowhere as his henchman pairs up with Amarjeet to do rest of the killing. The worst comes that no one can understand who is killing whom and why? 

For the first time Amarjeet fires at a man and when he got a fake passport to fly back into India, he decides to skip his flight and return to the mean streets due to courtesy for Tulip. 

Tulip here plays a girl in a dance bar who 'cannot be afforded', as stated by one of her junior colleagues. She sings 'bhojpuri' songs and can speak in English, lives in Mauritius, has a fear of a Pakistani don and falls in love with an Indian, a true ambassador of globalization. 

Amarjeet’s laptop has fancy software created by a person who needs to be refreshed by hitting hard on head as Mauritius is spelt as 'Muritus' along with at least a couple of more English errors that is embarrassingly displayed on the big screen. The movie’s tagline is also a big boo boo 'Love Among Gun Shots' not matching at all. But it is not at all cared for when the movie has bigger and far more glaring loopholes.  

Lucky Ali is shown as the biggest contract killer in the entire globe, driving a bike on the streets of Mauritus and firing openly on poor Amarjeet. 

This is not the end of heroism Lucky Ali leaves the bike, removes his helmet and starts searching Amarjeet on foot as the entire marketplace makes way for him. Moreover, he also enters people's households and hotel rooms unannounced, kills them in quick successions, and unbelievingly always leaves Tulip safe and whenever Amarjeet comes in sight he misses his target. 

One more Hindi movie style Don always misses and Amarjeet get one chance and shoots him in a split second motion. Totally abstract when one sees that a simple Indian boy accomplishes a task which a Mauritian super cop, who announces that 'he won't allow gang war to break in his city' and an Interpol couldn’t do for all these years. 

He turns out to be even more powerful at the end when he knocks down Amarjeet with three (or were they four?) bullets. End is not so bad. Well! 

If only he would have found him at the airport in the beginning of the movie and shot him at that very moment. It would have given a peace of mind a bit to the audience who all this time was thinking of 'running away' from this trash affair.

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Posted by Naresh Koshti on 29 June, 2009 3:46:32 PM IST #