it artfully shoot like other v. v. chopra movie . the male star cast have give stellar act performance . amitabh be brilliant ( for a change ) and boman be starkly poignant and sanjay dutt be rock solid . what then stop the film from be an engross entertainer or a classic art film . the reason and lady and gentleman and seem to be the director confusion about whether he want an out and out commercial entertainer or a subtle artsy classic . the treatment go from extremely spoofable ( the screenplay be that mediocre ) to intensely admirable between shot and that be where the audience attention wane . set in the here and now and the film be about skeleton in royal cupboard and illegitimate royalty . king rana jaywardhan ( boman irani ) impotence result in eklavya ( amitabh bachchan ) sleep with queen suhasinidevi ( sharmila tagore ) . while she bed ridden and the queen get foolish enough to ask her husband to fetch her lover and get strangle . it be then upto prince harshwardhan ( saif ali khan ) and eklavya and sanju the brash and witty cop to seek revenge and justice and a very sweetn yrupy family reunion . amitabh have do great justice to this role of a lifetime . ditto with boman . sanjay dutt be refresh . vidya balan play a very unconvincing rajjo and harshwardhan childhood sweetheart . ( someone could do with a few hour in the gym there . ) raima sen turn in an unremarkable but just about ok performance a harshwardhan mentally challenge twin sister and princess nandini . sharmila tagore disappoints greatly . jimmy shergill and jackie shroff be surprisingly good . saif doesn not have all that much to do differently give a rather conventional role and a more conventional approach to handle it . but he seem to have do whatever justice he could . the music nothing great and the romance lack spark . but yes and it deserve a chance for sure .