Director Priyadarshan, best known for his comedy films, returns with an action thriller tilted Tezz. The film stars Ajay Devgan, Anil Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Boman Irani and Sameera Reddy.

Story: Tezz is about Aakash Rana (Ajay Devgan), an illegal immigrant who is deported back to India from UK, because he is working without a permit. His pregnant wife Nikita (Kangana Ranaut), a british citizen, is left back.

A few years later, Aakash returns back to UK and teams up with Aadil (Zayed Khan) and Megha (Sameera Reddy). They plant a bomb in the London – Glasgow passenger train and ask the government for 10 million Euros. Stuck in the train is the teenage daughter of the railway traffic controller (Boman Irani). Aakash informs them that the bomb will be triggered if the speed of the train drops below 60 miles per hour.

Tezz Review

Positives

• The action sequences in Tezz are extremely well choreographed and shot, easily the best Bollywood has ever seen. Although the actors are a little too old to make the sequences believable, Hollywood stunt designers Gareth Milne and Peter Pedrero (Harry Potter, Quantum of Solace) deserve all the credit.
• Priyadarshan has directed the film pretty well, even though the film tends to drag a bit towards the end, the film is fast-paced, sleek and adrenaline rush is guaranteed.
• The performances are good. While not even close to his best, Ajay Devgan delivers a believable performance. Anil Kapoor looks fit, but a little too old to be performing such heavy duty action stunts. Boman Irani is good as always. Zayed Khan is strictly okay. Sameera Reddy has a small role, but credit to her for performing some of the difficult stunts. Mohanlal has a small role. Kangana Ranaut has about 3 scenes. Inclusion of Mallika Sherwawat’s item number makes absolutely no sense.
• The cinematography and background score is fantastic.

Negatives

• The story is flawed. The extreme step that Aakash takes is hard-to-digest. If all that he wants is to get back to his family, his wife could have simply returned to India after he was deported. But planting a bomb in a train, killing several cops and then expecting sympathy for the character from the audience? Wasn’t it his mistake in the first place, when he was an illegal immigrant? Wonder what the writers were thinking.
• The ease with which the security is breached and the men behind the crime manage to escape the cops is again very hard to believe.
• The music  - apart from the title song – is strictly okay.

Overall, Tezz is worth a watch for the action sequences and the thrill that it provides. The story though, is the films biggest flaw. At the box office, Tezz has opened to low occupancy at multiplexes, due to the release of Hollywood superhero film The Avengers. The collections are better at single-screens. To recover costs, the film will rely heavily on word-of-mouth.

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