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Akshay Kumar, center, as "India's sharpest criminal mastermind" in "Tees Maar Khan," directed by Farah Khan.
Goofy is as goofy does in Farah Khan's "Tees Maar Khan," a Bollywood farce that overdoes the zaniness in frantic high style. Tees Maar Khan (Akshay Kumar) is, we're told, "India's sharpest criminal mastermind." That seems to mean that he can pick locks, escape bumbling cops and cue his goon squad — Dollar, Soda and Burger — to scream in unison: "Tees Maar Khan!"
There's a lot of silliness and a lot of setup before the film's main caper gets under way. That involves Tees Maar Khan's pretending to be a film director and going through an elaborate shoot in a village in order to steal some antique treasures for Siamese-twin smugglers. (They're conjoined at their white jeans.)
With its let's-make-a-movie setting and film in-jokes (including an extended riff on India's post-"Slumdog Millionaire" Oscar dreams), "Tees Maar Khan" bears a passing resemblance to Ms. Khan's "Om Shanti Om" (2007). That film simultaneously poked fun at and celebrated Hindi cinema of the 1970s while delivering some of the most memorable and delirious song sequences in recent memory. "Om Shanti Om," a huge box office success, was Bollywood at its most pleasurable. "Tees Maar Khan" is Bollywood going through the motions.
Ms. Khan, who is also a choreographer, has a bright pop sensibility and a determination to keep things light. But here, saddled with a slapdash, not-clever-enough script by Shirish Kunder (her husband), she can't pull a magical movie out of her hat. Nor can she make her stars as winning as they need to be. Mr. Kumar and Katrina Kaif mug and dance and work hard, but they're not called upon to play characters so much as shtick figures, and the cartoonish world they inhabit isn't appealing or buoyant enough to carry the day.
TEES MAAR KHAN
Opened on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Directed by Farah Khan; written by Shirish Kunder, based on a story by Ashmith Kunder; director of photography, P. S. Vinod; edited by Ashmith Kunder; costumes by Aki Narula; produced by Ronnie Screwvala, Shirish Kunder and Twinkle Khanna; released by UTV. In Hindi, with English subtitles. Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes. This film is not rated.
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On the flipside, the film slips towards the second hour. You feel that way primarily because the first hour is thoroughly entertaining with a good number of laugh-inducing sequences and three solid songs and though the second half is engaging at times, it doesn't measure up to the first half in terms of the entertainment quotient. 
Ashmith Kunder and Shirish Kunder's script wastes no time in establishing the ways and means of the heist. Once you get a hang of the goings-on, once you throw logic out of the window, there's ample pleasure to seek in this humorous entertainer which does not claim to break new ground. I'd like to make a special mention of the film's dialogue [Ashmith and Shirish], which comes across as the perfect garnish to the proceedings. 
Katrina looks drop dead gorgeous and scorches the screen in the 'Sheila Ki Jawani' track. In fact, she has never looked so alluring. Raghu and Rajiv are superb. Akshay's three cronies compliment each other wonderfully well. Aarya Babbar is sure to be noticed. Murli Sharma and Aman Verma's try very hard to be funny, but fail. Apara Mehta is first-rate. Sudhir Pandey is fantastic. The villagers are mere props. Sachin Khedekar and Vijay Patkar are okay. Salman Khan makes an appearance in a song [electrifying], while Anil Kapoor appears in a cameo towards the end. 
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