Crook Movie Reviews

Crook scores due to its extreme topicality. Director Mohit Suri picks up a tale drawn straight from the current headlines and narrates it with characteristic grit and edginess. It's a familiar playground for Emraan Hashmi too as he gets to essay the role of the enfant terrible all over again. And that isn't rocket science for Emraan, since ever since he hit the marquee with his maniacal act in Murder, the actor has been antsy on screen in almost all his avatars.

Emraan Hashmi has the reputation of being a ladies' man. A Hashmi film means the audience had better be prepared for some steamy scenes. But for a change, Crook does not announce the vulgarity of Hashmi’s on-screen persona barring in a few scenes. Don’t be disappointed, there is more to Crook than its frivolous title. The strong storyline of Crook revolves around racism against Indian immigrants in Australia. Apart from racial discrimination

Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt have often admitted that newspaper headlines citing a burning issue have sown the seeds of a film in their minds. And CROOK, directed by the talented Mohit Suri, deals with one such issue: Racism in Australia. Well, depiction of racism on the Hindi screen isn't entirely new, since I - PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN explored the issue several monsoons ago. In fact, the issue has only got aggravated across the globe post 9/11. A film like CROOK holds a lot of significance

With “Crook”, director Mohit Suri raises the issue of racism against Indians in Australia, but reduces that globally relevant concern to an amateurish vendetta story. The film stars Emran Hashmi as a petty movie pirate who immigrates illegally to Melbourne, and falls for an earnest radio jockey (played by newcomer Neha Sharma). Her brother (played by Arjan Bajwa) is a nostril-flaring angry man who repeatedly mutters puerile dialogue about holding on to his culture

Crook says: It’s good to be bad. After labouring through 140 minutes of this Emraan Hashmi film, we know that the tagline was coined after the makers saw the final rushes. But Crook is so bad that it’s, er, bad. Boring and bland, illogical and irritating to downright stupid in parts, Crook is not the kind of film that should figure on your pre-Puja movie-watching list. From the perils of pornography in Kalyug, to the psyche of the suicide bomber in Dhokha to the mechanics of match-fixing in Jannat

After a string of movies together (three of which did well), cousins Mohit Suri and Emraan Hashmi return with Crook: It's Good to Be Bad. Crook is a story of Jai Dixit aka Suraj Bhardwaj (Emraan), who leaves India because of his father's criminal record, and hopes to start a good life in Melbourne, Australia. Ironically, he uses a fake passport and a fake identity to do so.

Crook is yet another quickie from the Bhatt stable, directed by old faithful Mohit Suri, and starring their lone thoroughbred Emraan Hashmi, along with a new filly called Neha Sharma. With their trademark style of weaving in topical issues into tightly budgeted films, Crook is set against the racial violence that recently took place in Australia against Indian immigrants.

It's always good when a filmmaker picks up a real story to tell; something that has happened around us and has touched the lives of hundreds of people. There is an instant connect. The Bhatt brothers are known to pick controversial subjects (the ones making headlines, usually) and the formula has worked several times before. Their latest offering, Crook revolves around racial attacks on Indian students and couples in Australia. It's the story of Jai

Crook is a film so outrageously silly that you have to wonder if the makers meant it as a spoof. Director Mohit Suri takes a relevant topic – racism against Indians in Australia – and makes a relevant point – that Indians are also racist – but does it in such a cartoonish way that it’s impossible to take any of it seriously. In fact, in the first half, the racism angle seems like an after- thought. The narrative mostly establishes Suraj, an illegal immigrant

The white woman is the sex-starved, buxom blonde. Inevitably. She strips and pole dances for a living. The brown dude she picks up from the street becomes her instant object of love and affection. They’ve barely met. He prefers to speak to her in Hindi. She knowingly grins. A drunken night, and they hit the bed together. “You’re still a virgin,” she assures him in the morning. No stress. This can happen if the irresistible Emraan Hashmi is the hero.

‘Crook’ will be rejected except, perhaps, in Punjab because of the hit ‘Chhalla India’ song rendered by a ...