: (IANS Review) Selfiee: Not worth the effort to visit the cinema (IANS Rating: **1/2) #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment Cast: Akshay Kumar, Diana Penty, Emraan Hashmi and Nushrratt Bharuccha. <br>Director:

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(IANS Review) Selfiee: Not worth the effort to visit the cinema (IANS Rating: **1/2) #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Diana Penty, Emraan Hashmi and Nushrratt Bharuccha. <br>Director: Raj Mehta. Cinematography: Rajeev Ravi. <br>IANS Rating: **1/2
Celebrities, particularly film stars, and their brush with the law are not uncommon. Famous people do have run-ins with the law, and some of them have even spent time behind bars. Some superstars rue the fact that the law is very often much tougher on them, but law enforcement agencies believe that celebs are not immune to the law and that all citizens must abide by it.
This weeks only release, Selfiee, attempts to raise the issue of well-known people riding roughshod over the law and getting away with lesser penalties.
Superstar Vijay Kumar (Akshay Kumar) enjoys the status of a demigod in the country. His cramped schedule doesnt allow even a single day off, much to the annoyance of his doting wife (Diana Penty).
The couple had planned a month-long holiday in the US, where she wished to deliver her first child conceived through in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). Kumar is all set to finish the last leg of a film shoot in Bhopal before flying off, but the producer (Akashdeep) requests him to shoot the climax for which the star needs to drive a vehicle in a sensitive area maintained by the Army.
Now that isnt much of an issue, but Kumars driving licence has expired, and therefore, he cannot be allowed to drive without one ASAP. He needs to obtain a new driving licence from the RTO, Om Prakash Agarwal (Emraan Hashmi), who happens to be Kumars diehard fan.
Not paying much attention first to something which looks like a cakewalk, Kumar refuses to come down from his privileged high horse and comply with the rules that require him to visit the RTO and do the needful. The inspector, who is delighted at the thought of meeting his idol, decides to take his young son to get a selfie clicked on the historic occasion.
To complicate matters, Vijays rival actor (Abhimanyu Singh), supposedly his childhood friend whos had several flops in a row, and is desperately trying to make a comeback, tries hard to get Vijay into trouble so that his film career nosedives too.
Meanwhile at the RTO, Kumar is upset to see mediapersons thronging the office even before he reaches there to fulfil the formalities required for the licence. Some of the scribes begin to ask uncomfortable questions as to how Kumar was driving his car without a valid licence and canvassing for Safe Driving campaigns too.
An enraged Kumar blames Agarwal for stooping so low just for his 15 minutes of fame at Kumars expense. The misunderstanding between the two escalates into a feud played out in front of the entire country.
The premise of this 143-minute film is believable.

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