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This is not so much of a spoiler as an agreement to the reviewer from the UAE (where I have come back from a holiday), but both in story and style, this movie is an almost direct copy of 1995's POWDER. You could almost have dubbed the original in Hindi for the same effect! Perhaps the only difference is the Bollywood "dance" scene in the middle of it, so aptly parodied in the Simpson's episode when Homer rents the Bolly version of PAINT YOUR WAGON and is shocked when the characters break into a dance halfway through a tense moment.

Anyway, I think it's fairly well known that whenever a movie is made in the USA, Bollywood will copy it later (I hear there is a Bollywood version of THE MATRIX floating around).

But as an enjoyable movie for a long haul flight from Melbourne and Dubai, this one ate up a couple of sudsy, tragi-comic hours.