Film: EMI

Banner: Popcorn Motion Pictures, Balaji Motion Pictures

Producer: Suniel Shetty, Shobhaa Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor

Director: Saurabh Kadra

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Rampal, Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Joshi, Daya Shanker Pandey, Pushkar Jog, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Malaika Arora, Ashish Chowdhry, Neha Uberoi, Snehal Dhabi, Javed Rizvi

Rating: 2/5

A movie relatable in parts… that’s EMI (Easy Monthly Instalments) for you.

EMI is a satire that looks at modern day India showcasing people with aspirations and dreams but limited means to fulfil them. However, needs must be fulfilled and hence they resort to taking loans. Four stories are depicted comprising people who have a thing in common… loan repayments. Another common link is the friendly neighbourhood goon Sattar Bhai (Sanjay Dutt), who works in close association with The All India Bank to recover loans from defaulters.

Story No 1: Ryan (Arjun Rampal) works at a disco as a DJ and aspires to be a musician some day. He falls in love with Nancy (Malaika Arora Khan) – a woman who has a list of pit less demands. Credit card payments are made without thinking about how to repay them.

Story No 2: Anil (Ashish Chowdhry) and Shilpa (Neha Uberoi) – the young urbane couple is looking to tie the knot soon. The loans on their heads are that for a house, car, travel, laptop and what not. Unfortunately for them, the ‘happy couple’ dream is soon shattered and payments falter.

Story No 3: Chandrakant (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), a middle class man, stays with his son Arjun (Pushkar Jog), who wants to study in London just coz everyone’s doing it! With no clear goal in his life, he takes his father’s loan repayment woes rather lightly.

Story No 4: Prerna (Urmila Matondkar) is a widow whose husband (Aman Verma) committed suicide due to money problems. Left alone with her young daughter, she’s on a mission to get her hands on her husband’s insurance policy money, which is hard to come by because of the suicide. She now has to prove that her husband was murdered.

Once the bank starts calling for the...