“All Akshay did was ask about the story idea and then discuss around logistic related to production. Never once did Shah Rukh came in the middle of our conversation, whether the ones that we had initially or during the making of Tees Maar Khan“, says Farah Khan who has stayed on to be in the line of fire for an entire year gone by ever since she decided to move away from Shah Rukh Khan to Akshay Kumar after working with the former in Main Hoon Naa and Om Shanti Om.

“Shirish and I gave Akshay a small narration and he said that he was fine with it”, informs Farah, “The next thing that he mentioned was about bringing in funds. He only suggested that we could work together in the film by co-producing it and then later sell it outside.”

It wasn’t entirely an easy job though as Farah and Shirish didn’t have a ready production house. The conversation had taken place in November last year and Akshay had allocated dates for the shooting to begin in March this year.

“In this entire duration, we had to set up a production house, record the songs and get the entire infrastructure set up in place. It was some hard times that Shirish and I faced then as everything had to be in jiffy. The least we would have wanted at that time was for our leading actor to talk about my so-called issues with Shah Rukh. But Akshay never once did that. Things were very clear between us”, Farah smiles away.

Kunal, who has got a new lease of life because of Raghu’s help, has faint memories of him and he is pleasantly surprised to see him by chance one day near his house. He thanks him for saving his life. The next night, Kunal is shocked to find Raghu at his doorstep with a bullet wound. Kunal helps him but in the course of the night, he learns that Raghu is a professional assassin.

Kunal is now in a dilemma. Should he help Raghu and save him from the police? For, although Raghu takes lives of people, he was instrumental in giving him (Kunal) a new life. Kunal telephones Ishita (Sara Khan), his girlfriend with whom he has split, and calls her over. He asks her how far she, in a similar position, would go to save a killer who had saved her life

Director: Joseph Kosinski.

Plot: Sam Flynn enters the digital world to look for his father, Kevin Flynn, and finds that the world has been taken over by his father’s digital clone, Clu. Will he triumph against the dark forces?

What’s Good: The digital world – it is visually fresh; the action sequences.

What’s Bad: The weak script; the film is boring in the middle.

Verdict: Tron: Legacy fails its legacy because of the weak story.

Loo break: Anytime during the middle portion of the film.

Walt Disney Pictures’ Tron: Legacy is the sequel to the 1982 science-fiction movie, Tron, which talked about an alternate digital world, populated by software programs and users (humans). Kevin Flynn, the world’s leading video-game developer, had built this parallel digital reality called The Grid. Kevin enters The Grid and is unable to make his way back into the real world, leaving his young son, Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund), an orphan.

The story of Tron: Legacy begins from this point onwards. Sam is now a rebellious 27-year-old, haunted by the mysterious disappearance of his father. He is an avid biker and hacker, just like his father. But he is disinterested in the legacy that his father left him, the world’s foremost technology company, Encom. In fact, he even steals the company’s latest software and puts it up on the internet for free. When his father’s friend, Alan Bradley (Bruce Boxleitner), comes calling one night, Sam shouts at him for his father’s disappearance. Bradley tells Sam that he received a pager from a phone in Kevin Flynn’s video game parlour. He asks Sam to investigate.

Once inside the defunct parlour, Sam finds a hidden underground lab. He tries hacking into one computer, and within minutes, is transferred to The Grid, which is a digital universe full of vehicles, weapons and landscapes.

Within The Grid – where software programs take human form – Sam is forced into a hi-tech gladiatorial arena. Defeating several programs, he emerges victorious. In a final fight with Rinzler (Anis Cheurfa), he tries to escape but is apprehended and taken to Clu (Jeff Bridges), his father’s digital clone, who had snatched the control of The Grid from his father and Tron, the hero of the original film.

Clu wants to test Sam and puts him in a dangerous car-fight game but Sam is rescued by Quorra (Olivia Wilde), his father’s assistant. Finally, Sam meets his father, Kevin Flynn, but Kevin is a changed man, he doesn’t want to put up a fight against Clu. In the meanwhile, Sam and Kevin’s only way back to the real world, the portal, is fast closing. They must hurry or they will be stuck here forever, just like Kevin was, years ago.  Sam surreptitiously plans to attack Clu and reach the portal with Quorra’s help. Will he succeed? Will Tron, the original hero of The Grid, make a return? Will Kevin Flynn’s dream of building a perfect world survive? The rest of the film answers these questions.