And at one point, I was getting very confused by the fact that everyone was calling everyone else "brother" (presumably there was some slight inflection difference between "blood brother" and " 'spiritual' brother", but that's a generous guess). It's also not said just what the family does-what kinds of criminal activities, presumably-to sustain their wealth. I don't recall (or it wasn't said) what happened to the father. He also has a brother, Karan (Sohail Khan), whom I believe was the biological son of their gangster father, and an adopted sister, Bindiya (Nauheed Cyrusi). Although I'm not quite clear on some of the details, the leader of the family is the eldest son, Arjun Rana (Sunny Deol), who looks and acts an awful lot like an Indian Kevin Spacey. The story, which doesn't really kick into gear until after an hour has gone by-credits still appear about 20 minutes into the film-is centered on a "gangster family of orphans", curiously enough. But this is a film that could strongly benefit by being cut down to about an hour and forty minutes, rather than its current almost three-hour running time. The "problem"-what makes this a pretty good film despite that fact, is that on a detailed view, he's good at all of those styles (aside from a few moments of supreme cheesiness, perhaps), and if you are patient enough, or concentrate enough, to bore into the basic plot, the story is decent, with potential to be great. Director Ahmed Khan throws in just about every directorial style and most of the plot contrivances that he can think of, no matter how minor or unrelated to the main body of the film. My other title for this review was "this is a pretty good film for such a mess".
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