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Not so epic

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Subhash Ghai's Bollywood epic has Anurag Sinha as a Muslim suicide bomber planning with others to blow up a parade at Delhi's Red Fort.

Taking shelter in the welcoming house of Anil Kapoor's unsuspecting university professor, he is slowly but surely humanised by the family, especially their attractive daughter (Aditi Sharma).

Ghai's plea for tolerance has songs and dances reasonably well integrated into the storyline.

However, the attempt to show how the good people of Chandni Chowk co-exist irrespective of their different religions and culture is a bit stymied by four-square and sometimes parodic characterisation.

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Cert: 12A

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