Tango Charlie :
Director :
Mani Shankar
Cast : Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt, Suniel Shetty,
Bobby Deol.
Kelly Dorji, best known an Lara
Dutta’s boy-friend, plays a chillingly cruel Bodo
leader in the first quarter of Tango Charlie. He has a vicious
presence that is unfortunately cut short by the good guys. The
rest of the villians in Tango Charlie,
a tour of terrorism in India, cannot match up to him. Actually,
the rest of the film also can’t match the vigour and horror
of its first story. Mani Shankar
focuses on the little-lauded men of the BSF who battle not on
the borders but within the country. The episodic structure-the
men move from one afflicted spot to another (Manipur, Gujarat,
West Bengal)- doesn’t hold together. The romantic interludes
are especially limp. And though the actors try hard - Bobby
Deol is effectively ingenuous - the movie eventually
becomes an indistinguishable haze of bullets, bodies and blood.
