Sherazade Review of Shortkut - The Con Is On

Shortkut - The Con Is On (2009)

It could have been better but it wasn't horrible.

[3/10 · 6 November 2009]

I liked the songs(especially the one about 'Tomorrow evening @ 9pm' it was very romantic and sexy) but I did not like the pairing of Amrita Rao with Akshaye Khanna (her on-screen pairings have been awful since she stopped acting with Shahid Kapoor). The film is about two friends (one a bad actor and one a director/writer) they are played by Arshad Warsi and Khanna respectively. Tired of being a down on his luck actor, Warsi's character Raju decides to steal his friend Shekhar's(Khanna) current script and sells it to another director who has promised to turn him into a star if he can produce a worthwhile script. Raju's plan works out and it isn't long before he becomes an in-demand Bollywood actor at the expense of his friendship with Shekhar. Amrita Rao plays the love interest of Shekhar's character and is a popular actress who attracts the eye of Raju once he too becomes a mega-star.