DIRECTOR ROHIT Shetty made debut with Zameen, an action flick that bombed at the box-office.

Golmaal followed, a comedy, it was an average hit at the box-office.

For his third outing, Sunday, he has mixed the genre and the hybrid is not all that satisfying.

Sunday is inspired by the runaway south-Indian hit Anukokunda Oka Roju, the film starts with the cold blooded murder of a cheating girl, Sunita Pradhan, by her boyfriend, thereby cast in the mould of who-did-it plot.

Cut to a few interesting characters (for the scriptwriters, atleast): Vrijesh Heerjee, Ali Asgar, Murali Sharma.

Cut to a girl whose memory goes for a toss… err… partial loss (Ayesha Takia). The plot-point is that she has no memory of one of the days: SUNDAY.

Suddenly, she sees herself chased by two buffoons (Arshad Warsi and Irrfan Khan); a couple of goons (led by Shervir Vakil) and two crooked cops (Ajay Devgun and Mukesh Tiwari).

Why?

She doesn’t have the answer.

The whole narrative thus gets occupied with Ayesha and Ajay (he is going to be matched with her, you see) and other characters’ struggle to piece together her missing Sunday.

In the climax, it is revealed that the whole thing has at its crux, yup, the Sunita Pradhan murder.

Yawn!

Well not quite, because in between there are many, sorry, very many comic gags, primarily between, Arshad Warsi and Irrfan Khan that keeps the masses entertained complete with messy… oops… massy humor (you know de de… le le… types).

Directorially, the film wastes a lot of time to introduce the characters: Ajay Devgun, Irrfan Khan, Arshad Warsi, etc. In fact, the interval point of the film (piecing together of missing Sunday) is where the film exactly starts. The 2 hours 15 minutes length of the film can easily be trimmed to 1 hour 40 minutes.  

The production values are rich, but the cinematographer fails to capture the beauty and the variety of the city film is set in – saddi Dilli yaar.

Ajay Devgun looks old and does an average job. Ayesha Takia is superb (just watch her in her introduction scene where she is dubbing for the cartoons, amazing timing!). Though, she needs to check that extra girth. Arshad Wari and Irrfan Khan are good. Rest of the cast does an average job.

On the whole, this Sunday ends up being a dud day for the audiences. It’s below average.

Rating: 3 on 10