eklavya the director vidhu vinod chopra repute with 2 decade of successful cinema under his belt . the star cast outstanding amitabh bachchan and sanjay dutt and jackie shroff and saif ali khan and jimmy shergill and boman irani and sharmila tagore and vidhya balan and raima sen and parikshit sahani . the concept brewing since more than 25 year while the work on the story and screenplay and script painstaking while the detail look into the production perfect . the story of eklavya revolves around the royal guard eklavya and play by amitabh of the palace in devgarh and rajasthan in post independence era and who secret of father the twin ( saif and raima ) of the queen ( sharmila tagore ) be disclose on the death of the queen . with this the story unfolds and amitabh start perform his duty a a royal guard with the murder of the king ( booman irani ) only to know that the murderer be none other than his son the heir of the kingdom saif ali khan . do he kill saif to perform his dharma be the question poise in the end . sanjay dutt play the village low caste cop and jackie and jimmy play the villainous part while parikshit the royal driver and vidhya his daughter . the story be surely interesting and and all actor have perform their part very well and with all the resource it have it be a sure formula for success . but a big no be the answer . the movie fail to connect and i felt a if i be view a sober re make of 70 80 movie raj tilak . this be a movie for all student study script writing and director ( in that order ) . it perfectly show what one should avoid when write a script and direct a movie . i be 100 % sure that each and every scene and detail be well craft out in the script word by word and image by image and page by page and and that be reflect on the screen . but the whole approach be immature come from a veteran director . the characterization be poor and each scene be like a stand alone scene of enact on stage and each single scene be stretch to unbearable limit of irritation and the music on the over stretched scene be jar and the sync sound be badly record and each dialogue be a pick up from 60 70 pot boiler and and even with range of emotion give to the character and all actor be under utilized and waste . a good movie on paper do not necessary result in a good movie on screen be the big and loud and clear message one get after see this crap . only save grace of this movie be the cinematography . saif ali khan beard remind me of rajesh khanna movie where his hair use to grow long and short within a span of the same scene . it be strange that the palace do not have electricity and but saif come in a late helicopter wear swatch watch and and travel by scorpio and the funny part be when sanjay dutt in the last scene mention about dvd player . wasn not the impression give to u that the movie be base soon after independence when india become a democracy . i think vidhu vinod chopra get mess up in the historic hangover of timing . just a trivia on see a long queue wait for the movie i tell an indian please save yours euro 10 per ticket the movie be bad . he reply me amitabh be there and so how can the movie be bad . your outlook be different . really . cnn ibn give 2 star out of 5. i be give it 2 . 5 star but out of 10 . ( 2 . 5 star out of 10 ) .