'Holiday'- Fast Paced, Exhilarating Roller-Coaster Ride

Some episodes such as the one where Akshay's character collects his army pals at a church wedding for a "game" across Mumbai that saves the city from a terror disaster are so ingeniously implanted into the kinetic plot that you wonder which came first - the scourge of terrorism or the cinema that takes terror to the level of high entertainment. Yup. The potent Akshay-Vipul Shah team is back with its most lethal entertainter to date.

"Holiday" is a fast-paced, exhilarating rollercoaster ride filled with the most unexpected twists and turns. The anxious narrative is nourished by some spot-on background music which punctuates and pins down the heart-stopping action. A. Natarajan Subramaniam's cinematography takes the edgy proceedings to another level altogether. The fidgety images are framed traditionally in every shot, and yet they are able to furnish a renewed vigour to the goings-on.

This, then, is that entertainer which tells you that cinema about terrorism need not be dark and grim. Murugadoss keeps the going light-hearted and yet the undercurrents of tension jump out of the screen to relentlessly claim our attention. Akshay's character's basic argument that terrorism can only be countered when the counter-terrorists are as fearless about losing their lives as the terrorists, is put forward with such gusto and conviction, we really can't argue with the plot premise.

So here's your chance to go with the ferocious flow and not regret it for even a minute. Yes, the songs are like sleeping dogs that come awake at inopportune times to yelp out their melody-less messages. But the last farewell song, an ode to the dedication and sacrifices of Indian soldiers, will leave you moist eyed. This is Akshay's most engaging entertainer in recent times.

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