Watching Irrfan Khan do the nervous callee in a phone booth, listening to an unsettling self-assured voice - played by Sanjay Dutt - manipulating him, constitutes that half of what Mani Shankar gets right in this ambitious Phone Booth cum A Wednesday mash.
Knock Out is a ride made exciting both by its theme and by the unlikely chemistry of two actors with diametrically opposite performing styles. And yet, it remains a could-have-been, because of little digressions that it makes.
Knock Out deals with Tony Khosla (Irrfan Khan), a sleazy investment banker who is a ki....