This is a film which is a direct take-off on Hollywood thriller Derailed starring Jennifer Aniston. The entire story has been inspired from the Hollywood original but the film barely manages to keep the viewer hooked till the end.
The film deals with an extra-marital affair which goes awry when a blackmailer enters the picture. The film revolves around the stale marriage of Vishal (Emraan Hashmi) and Anjali (Sayali Bhagat), who live in Bangkok. The couple are trying to do their best to keep the marriage going as they have a five-year-old daughter Nikki, who is suffering from juvenile diabetes and needs a kidney transplant, which Vishal is saving up for. The strain is probably telling to both of them but it is he who succumbs to it first.
One day one his way to work in the train, he meets a woman called Roma (Geeta Basra), who is trapped in a loveless marriage herself. He is immediately attracted to her and the feeling is mutual. Back at home, Anjali starts getting suspicious of Vishal's behaviour but that does not deter him Very soon, Roma and Vishal are in the throes of a passionate affair. But one incident changes their lives forever. The lovers are robbed in the hotel room where they meet. The burglar takes off with Vishal's wallet and rapes the girlfriend. And then begins the blackmail. Someone now knows about the affair, which could destroy three lives. Vishal decides to take drastic action and eliminate the threat in his life forever.
The film has all possible ingredients in it for a potboiler. There is love, lust, blackmail, rape, murder, everything that a thriller would demand. Even though the film has been "inspired' from a recent Hollywood thriller, the director duo of Raksha Mistry and Hasnain Hyderabadwala manage to keep the action going at a fairly fast pace. But what seems to suffer in the bargain is quality. It's not the greatest of stories and what comes across is too much "supposed movement or action' with very little happening really.
Actor Emraan Hashmi is very much at home in The Train. He manages to fit into his character of Vishal well enough. It's quite his type of genre. Both the actresses, Geeta Basra and Sayali Bhagat have a long way to go before they can be called actors. The two of them are quite wooden. The rest of the cast is passable.
There aren't many endearing things about the film. But the music given by newcomer Mithoon is quite hummable. That's about the only redeeming feature of the film, which really isn't saying much about the film.
