EMI Movie Review: EMI Does Not Hold 'interest

EMI is an insipid attempt at making movie. It looks like a half hearted job. The movie was shaped to be a light hearted film with a social message and in many ways, Sattar Bhai of EMI takes on Munnabhai of Munnabhai Series....Unsuccessfully. The movie EMI had a good concept,the characters and their problems with loans looked genuine. The problem was Sanjay Dutt or Sattar Bhai's approach to resolving the issues. In the movie, Sattar Bhai's Goodluck Recovery Agency has a job outsourced by All India Bank to recover the pending money from borrowers. The borrowers, con man Arjun Rampal and his wife Mallaika Arora, divorcees Neha Uberoi and Ashish Choudary, Khulbushan Kharbanda, an old man who had taken loan for his son's education, Urmila Matondkar who borrows to pay off a goon who can help the bank settle insurance money of her dead husband are all held up in debt trap and Sattar Bhai's job is to take back the money. However Sattar Bhai uses the Munnabhai formula, empathises with the borrowers and teaches them a thing or two about managing finances. But the sad part is that he is not accurate it. Many a times, the movie deviates into a silly romance between Sanjay Dutt and Urmila Matondkar. Credit management solutions goes for a toss and there are times when Sanjay Dutt gives long sermons about how a person can be a good husband or a good son, instead of helping the people find a way out of the debt mess. The movie stops rather than ends and you are left wondering if the problems are indeed solved.
nPlus points of EMI: Some of the dialogues of EMI are rib tickling especially "Pyaar se toh bache paidey hotein hain" and "If your matter is personal, so is the loan".
nMinus points of EMI: EMI loses it plot after interval, there seems to be no synchronization between the direction and script of the film
nPerformances of EMI: Sanjay Dutt is spot on as Sattar Bhai. Equally convincing and brilliant is Ashish Choudary. Arjun Rampal comes across as a cool customer while Neha Uberoi impresses in a small role. Urmila Matondkar seems to have lost her flair.
nVerdict: EMI gives a sense of déjà vu and you get the feeling that the makers were not really excited about the movie themselves.

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