The whole story revolves around the ransom, mistaken identities and funny phone conversations. But Avinash has a conscience attack, returns the kid home, and falls in love with the mistress. Things get messier when Avinash kidnaps the wrong kid, who turns out to be the police commissioner's mistress' child. The gang leader is bitten by a horse, the car they're driving in has accidents and the kidnapper goes to sleep along with his victim, not to mention an unscrupulous insurance agent joining the party. The venture seems doomed from the outset. The kidnappers plan to extort money out of a rich businessman. Kamal Haasan plays Avinash, a partially deaf motorbike stuntman forced into joining a gang of kidnappers. Mumbai Xpress is another movie in the same vein. Classics like Michael, Madan, Kama Raj, Pammal K Sambandham, Tenali and Pushpak come to mind. He is the only actor to have starred in comedies that people actually find hilarious. Senthil throwing a sack of flour at Goundamani's visage and laughing at the sight is about as good as it gets.
After having watched how a faithful, frame-by-frame reconstruction of a classic Malayalam movie can still turn out to be terrible, I was hoping for a movie that would be a cut above Chandramukhi.Īnd glory be, Mumbai Xpress put on display Kamal Haasan at his very best - and better still, it was an original story! Mumbai Xpress is not just a cut, but a whole ladder above the rest!Ĭomedy in Tamil movies is usually slapstick. I walked into a theatre screening the Tamil version of Mumbai Xpress after a three-hour encounter with the superstar, Rajnikanth.
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