Table No 21

Table No 21 is the kind of thriller that makes you feel you are smelling a fish throughout. The "Something ought to be wrong, " turns into a regular twist in the tale without throwing you off balance.

Shot in virgin locales in and around Suva, Table No 21 is expertly shot and edited. It gathers impetus after the stage is set over the first few sequences. It cannot be said that it is inspired from the hit tv show hosted by Rajiv Khandelwal ‘Saach ka Saamna’. This movie has some most interesting action scenes and the script is also well written. The screenplay is the film’s undoing: Table No 21 never acquires the desperate spine-chilling edge that a cat and mouse game of life and death should necessarily have had.

An out of work 30-year-old, Vivaan (Rajeev Khandelwal), and his wife of five years, Siya (Tena Desae), win an all-expenses paid trip to wholesome Fiji, where they enjoy the most amazing moments of their life. After a de rigueur romp on the beach that allows the lady to get into a skimpy bikini, the young couple is ferried on a seaplane to a resort where the owner Mr Khan (Paresh Rawal) offers them a bottle of Dom Perignon and a chance to win Rs 21 crore if they participate in a live online game show. 

It is simple, they are told. All they have to do is answer eight prickly questions without taking the option to falsehood and perform as many tasks without losing their marbles. The thumb rule, too, is straightforward: if you lie, you die. The truth-or-dare game obviously isn’t a bottle of vintage champagne. Vivaan and Siya confront their worst phobias, deal with the demons of the past, rediscover themselves the hard way and have their love and endurance tested to snapping point as the game turns more aggressive and dangerous with each consecutive question.

This is one of those movies you can catch on television when nothing else is playing. Otherwise, "Table No. 21″ is safe to avoid.