Director of Hijack Kunal Shivdasani claims the film is not a copy of Die Hard but it has been used as a reference point. It's just as well because then the movie would've become a bigger joke than it is now.

The intentions are lofty. They always are. But most of the times noble intentions are met with more than trite dialogues, shallow script, zero research and a dismal high-school dramatics approach. Not here.

As is evident, the film is a story of a plane being hijacked by a terrorist group and the ensuing tension. Vikramadhan (Shiney Ahuja,) a brooding-guy-with-a-past works at the airport as the maintenance chief. He has a daughter, Priya, the apple of his eye and a dead wife's memory to haunt him. His wife died in a similar hijack situation on which he was the captain where he disobeyed the Commandos ushered to save the situation.

In order to avoid a similar mishap taking place with his daughter, who is aboard the hijacked plane, he once again flaunts authorities and breaks into the plane, to single-handedly save his daughter and (because he is the hero too), the world. It's quite beside the point that in essence the world gets saved only because in trying to rescue his daughter he manages to get all the terrorists killed or caught.

The film has a number of unintentionally hilarious situations, for example the one when Vikram breaks into the plane through the cargo hold and Saira, (poor Esha Doel) spots him and asks him in hushed tones, 'Kyun aaye ho tum yahan? Chale jaaon yahan se!' Like he is an estranged lover she is unwilling to encounter at the shop-around-the-corner. But as luck would have it, there is no such angle to distract from the other little comedies happening around them.

One of it is the Home Minister, who loves talking in punch-lines but unfortunately has had a very bad dubbing job done on him. Savour this when the media wants to get a byte, 'Tell them everything' Pause. Wily smile.'Without...

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