The Hit machine of bollywood is back with a much awaited cc2c (touted as semi – autobiography of akshay himself)…but this time it happens to be a sort of misadventure. Cc2c is a film without soul and relies too much on akshay’s star power to sail through the box office.
Cc2c is story of Sidhu (Akshay), a guy down on both luck and money, living in the streets of Chandni chowk and working as a chef in his Dada’s (Mithun) dhaba. His life changes when people from China come in search of their saviour to help them get rid of Hojo (Gordon Liu). They consider him to be the re-incarnation of a great warrior of china. And thanks to the devious translator, a conman (Ranvir Shorey), little does he know that he is being taken to China to rid the Chinese village of the vicious smuggler Hojo. Along the way he meets Sakhi (Deepika Padukone), the Indian-Chinese spokesmodel known as Ms. Tele Shoppers Media, or Ms. TSM, who has embarked on a journey to the land of her birth and her presumed-dead father and twin sister Suzy.
The rest of the story focuses on what happens in China and how life changes for sidhu in china after Hojo kills his dada. The second half has lots of action when akshay is trained in Kung-fu by the Deepika’s long lost father and how he finally manages to kill Hojo.
The movie has its moments and akshay tries his best to deliver an honest performance and he is the only thing that makes you sit through the movie. The film's first hour is lighthearted and simple and most of the humor's derived from Sidhu's clumsiness. It's when the film enters its second hour that the cracks begin to show. Deepika fails to recreate her OSO magic and Gordon Liu and others are average. The side tracks of deepika’s family reunion and hojo’s characterisation has been given too much importance and takes you away from the main theme of the money. Actions are good by bollywood standards but are a bit repetitive. The screenplay and editing of the movie leave much to be desired for but story being the main villain of the movie.
All in all, it is a movie which promises nothing in terms of content and substance…watch it if you are an Akshay Kumar fan.
Rating : **
