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Zeroes Oops Heroes Fails to Sizzle at Box Office

What a bloody waste of time.

What a dreadful waste of money ($9 for our ticket not to mention the crores down the drain on the film).

What an awful waste of film-stock.

Directed by Samir Karnick, Heroes’ first claim to infamy is the coming together of four of the most incompetent actors in Bollywood in a single movie – Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol.

Second, Heroes plays a cruel trick on viewers by fobbing off a bad recruitment ad for the Indian armed forces as a Hindi movie.

Story
Two young friends Sammy (Sohail Khan) and Nawab Saab (Vatsal Sheth) set off on a motorbike trip to make a movie on why you should not join the Indian armed forces in order to get their degree in film-making.

The friends meet the families of three soldiers – Balkar Singh (Salman Khan), Dhananjay Shergill (Bobby Deol) and Sahil Naqvi (Dino Morea) who gave their lives defending the nation.

With each meeting, we get boring vignettes of the martyrs and the dear ones they left behind – Balkar’s widow Kuljeet Kaur (Preity Zinta) and adorable young son (??), Dhananjay’s crippled brother Vikram Shergill (Sunny Deol) and Sahil’s angry father Dr.Naqvi (Mithun Chakravorty).

Such is the slender thread on which this dud of a movie hangs.

Acting
As the wise ones say, Garbage in = Garbage out.

So what can you really expect when you tie together Salman Khan, Sohail Khan, Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol in a single movie – what else but a  Molotov cocktail of garbage that explodes in the hapless viewers’ faces.

Will somebody please euthanize these four gadhas. Their time’s up and they’re outstaying their welcome in Bollywood.

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