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If the buzz is to be believed, Fardeen Khan is all pepped up to produce the remake of ‘Qurbani’. He is stepping into his father’s shoes to the nine, as he will be playing the role of Feroz Khan too.

As per our khabroo, “Fardeen was discussing about taking this film as a producer and also acting in it. He is very tight lipped about matter as he doesn’t want it to come out in media.”

“As it was reported earlier, Sanjay Dutt will be portraying the role of Amjed Khan in the film. In a friendly chat with his close pals he stated that the film will be produced under Khan’s banner,” chirps the source.

Our khabroo tried to dig the info on the star cast. On this Fardeen replied, “The day I come to know about the entire star cast of the film, I will let you know.”

Now this is what we call a dotting son.

Feroz Khan Just days before he passed away, actor-filmmaker Feroz Khan had a wish which son Fardeen Khan did not leave unfulfilled.

Hindi cinema lost a veteran late on Sunday night when Feroz Khan, the man who gave us films like Qurbani and Jaanbaaz, died after a prolonged battle with cancer. A man known for his unique style statements and his unflagging love for animals, Feroz had been undergoing treatment for cancer at Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital till recently. And Fardeen and sister Laila have been with their father all this while.

While at the hospital a few days back, Feroz expressed his wish to visit his farmhouse in Bangalore to be with his pet animals, mainly horses and dogs.

Writer Raju Saigal spins the hackneyed plot of cop and crook friendship, fails to give it any new twists and ends up serving up a stale tale. Veeru (Kunal Khemu) is a petty thief who makes a living out of smooth talking and stealing cars.

He’s rescued from a sticky situation by Jai (Fardeen Khan) who initially poses as a car mechanic and strikes a kinship with Veeru. In reality, he’s an undercover cop trying to track down Tejpal (Arbaaz Khan) a kingpin criminal through Veeru. But in a confrontation the friends come face-to-face and Veeru feels betrayed. How the friends get together and bust Tejpal’s racket is what the plot is all about.

Technical Expertise- Director Puneet Sira fails to rustle up excitement with this youthful action venture. The entire film is flat and incredibly predictable. The characters are bereft of depth and therefore fail to make any impact.

Neither the friendship between the two heroes nor the villainy of the baddie is effective. The two heroines – Anjana Sukhani and Dia Mirza – have purely ornamental presence in the film. Govind Namdeo as the DIG top cop with his over-the-top dialogue delivery makes for a good laugh – he’s unintentionally ludicrous. Logic has little use in the film- otherwise how could Veeru just snatch the pistol off the menacing villain Tejpal and flee in his car? How come the big don moves around sans any additional security cover?

Kunal Khemu and Fardeen Khan aren’t convincing enough in their respective parts. Action director Allan Amin pulls off some neat punches in the form of air crashes, car chases and motor-bike stunts. The song picturisations are slick, though out of sync with the story and mostly intrusive. Credit is due to the camerawork by K Rajkumar and Chokkas Bhardwaj’s artistic backdrops. It’s a film that could have fared better with directorial innovation that is totally lacking.

Fardeen Khan, who has become a little more choosy about his films(going by the fact that he might be moved out of bollywood after giving no solo hit), has also started to emphasize perfection. The actor, like the ace Khan, Aamir, has started to take care of even the direction and the dressing of the extras on sets. Recently, while Fardeen was shooting for a film, he noticed that the clothes of an extra didn’t fit him well. At this, the actor ordered the unit members to make him change the outfit into a well suited one, and then waited for the junior artist to come back after the change.
With not many hits, we wonder if all this poking the nose job would go well with his directors.