on paper and this movie have all the making of a classic . a hugely talented superstar cast and a unique and creative storyline and an artistic assortment of cinematic spice like emotion and tender romance and jealousy and greed and mystery and a lip smack element of surprise in the end . yet sadly on screen and the director fail to synchronize all these tool into a well oil machine while in short and the movie fail to grip the audience . go by it length and under two hour which be remarkably short for a hindi movie and one would have expect the movie to unfold at breakneck pace . the kind of tempo that keep your hip gyrate on the edge of the seat while however and the pace be sluggish for most part . set in a captivate palace of rajasthan and it trace the emotional roller coaster ride of the royal palace guard eklavya ( amitabh bachchan in a memorable performance ) who be put to the cruelest of altar in the end when he be face with a choice between his loyalty and his son . saif ali khan a the son and vidya balan and sanjay dutt all give beautiful performance and although the focus never really manage to shift out of the magnetic persona of amitabh and who play the role with such rigorous conviction that every crease in his face or every hint of a tear in his eye more than make up for the lack of dialog in the movie . eklavya be a movie of personal choice and the overly challenging task of choose the lesser of the two wrong and or for that matter and the good of the two right . bar the tortoise pace and which be not quite so bothersome a the screen blank under a couple of hour and the movie be quite worth watch for the sheer gravity of performance .