Upside:
The
eye-catching
outdoor
locations
are
used
to
inviting
effect
by
cinematographer
Vijay
Arora
who
spans
through
the
panoramic
locales
with
fruity
relish.
Too
numbed
to
react
to
the
film's
self
conscious
paciness,
you
still
applaud
the
debutant
director
for
his
enterprising
spirit.
Flipside:
But
the
characters
are
as
over-the-top
and
uni-dimensional
as
electronic
toys
in
a
posh
departmental
store
where
the
best
items
have
been
swept
away
at
a
summer
bonanza
sale.
Forget
the
ecological
desecration.
The
absolute
lack
of
good
taste
in
intermittent
bouts
of
massy
pleasuring
stymies
the
flow
of
adventure...e.g
the
pigmy
tribals
making
merry
havoc
with
the
adventurous
trio
of
protagonists,
or
the
villain's
moll
who
stands
speechlessly
in
semi-naked
splendour
only
to
burst
into
a
song
about
nashaa
nashaa...or
was
it
naksha
naksha?
And
the
humour
is
often
of
the
most
dreadful
variety.
There's
a
particularly
obnoxious
queer-funny
sequence
where
handcuffed
chote-bhai
Oberoi
wants
his
brother
Sunny
Deol
to
help
him
pee
in
the
wilderness.
The
screenplay
(Milap
Zaveri/Tushar
Hiranandani)
apportions
witticisms
like
plastic
fruits
on
real
trees.
Boy's
day
ouch?????
Jha's
judgment:
When
was
the
last
time
you
saw
a
children's
adventure
story
told
with
loads
of
sporty
chutzpah?
This
isn't
quite
the
ultimate
adventure
story
that
Spielberg
would
have
made.
But
Naksha
has
an
interesting
look
and
feel
too
it.
The
feeling
however
isn't
even
skin-deep.
It's
just
.....
stilted
and
shallow.