Hattrick<BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>This Milan Luthria directed film was released around the Caribbean Cricket World cup this year to cash in on the cricket euphoria. However, unfortunately, for the makers just as the film released, the Indian team was almost on its way back home and people were so upset and irritated that cricket was the last thing on their mind. <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>This mockery of a sports flick had three parallel tracks running in the film, each cheesier and cornier than the other. Don’t believe, then read along…<BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>The Nana Patekar – Danny track shows Danny as a critically ill patient for whom watching the World Cup final is more important a priority than getting operated upon, so much so that his doctor Nana stages a fake World cup match by calling up commentator Harsha Bhogle for an old tape of the 1983 World Cup match. And guess what Danny watches the match as happily as if it’s a live match. The other track shows Rimmi Sen fantasizing about cricketer Dhoni while making out with her husband Kunal Kapoor so much so that he starts hating anything to do with cricket. Dhoni v/s Kunal, now isn’t that an easy choice girls? As for Paresh Rawal, how many million more times would he play a Patel Bhai with an ‘America meets Amdavadi’ accent? <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>The icing on the cake is the end credits where you see people like Harsha Bhogle, Usha Uthup and even John Abraham shaking a leg with the cast. Wait a sec; wasn’t John supposed to be a football fan? <BR><BR><br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>The title of the film is apt but unfortunately it is the director who scores a first ball duck in each of the three tracks thus aptly completing a Hattrick.<br><p class=clear>&nbsp;</p>