Kachche Dhaage

Amidst a flood of family oriented movies, which looked more or less like marriage videos, came Kachche Dhaage, an out-and-out masala movie. But it wasn’t the relief that it should have been. It was a hotchpotch effort to woo the audiences with typecast roles and a hackneyed story line, and failed miserably. Ajay Devgan as an angry young man and Saif Ali Khan as a spoilt rich brat find tailor-made roles, but a movie is more than just that. It is in the other departments that Kachche Dhaage fails.

The story line is as old as the hills. Two stepbrothers, one M....