Masand's Verdict: Hijack is a moronic film

PLANE STUPID: 'Hijack' is a mind-bogglingly stupid film. Wonder how actors agreed to be a part.

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It's a horrible thing to say, but hijacks and hostage situations lend themselves to such high-strung drama and nail-biting tension, they almost always serve as an interesting subject for thriller films.

Shiney Ahuja-Esha Deol starrer Hijack which opens at cinemas this week, takes what could have been a perfectly exciting premise and botches it up irreparably.

An Amritsar-bound passenger airplane is hijacked by a group of terrorists who force land the flight at Chandigarh airport, and demand the release of a militant in exchange of passengers' lives.

Shiney Ahuja stars as chief of maintenance at Chandigarh airport, who sneaks into the grounded flight to overpower the terrorists.

His daughter is on the flight, you see. What's more, a hijack situation isn't a new experience for Shiney, who lost his wife in a similar incident some years ago while he was employed as flight captain.

Esha Deol, plays an airhostess on this doomed flight, who lends Shiney a helping hand.

Unbelievably idiotic, the script of Hijack is so ridiculous, it's hard to imagine how actors and producers signed up to be a part of this venture.

Not only is the screenplay an uneven mish-mash of predictable scenes, the characters are all caricatures from typical Bollywood films, and they spout the kind of dialogue that they stopped writing way back in the eighties.

To give you an idea of just how mind-boggingly stupid this film is, let me tell you terrorists sneak guns on this plane by hiding them in farsan packets; and an air-hostess must make out with a corpse on another occasion.

This film is so embarrassingly incompetent, I think the passengers who got killed by the hijackers on this flight should consider themselves lucky they didn't live long enough to endure the indignity of walking out of that plane alive and being pelted with eggs by disgruntled viewers of this film.

I'm going with one out of five and a thumbs down for director Kunal Shivdasani's Hijack; the one star is for the laughs you'll enjoy at the expense of this moronic film.

Rating: 1 / 5 (Poor)