Director Anthony D Souza movie Blue has set a new trend in Hindi film industry Bollywood with some stunning underwater photography. Said to be over Rs. 100 crore in budget, Blue doesn’t really able to justify the mega budget it has been allotted. Akshay Kumar plays a role of a rich man living in the Bahamas who loves his lady and the good life. He plays the flirty cool dude with a hidden agenda with amazing natural ease.

He befriends Sanjay Dutt, a fisherman/diver who lives in a sprawling designer bungalow and flaunts a glamorous wife (Lara Dutta). There are vague references to Dutt’s dark memories about a sunken ship. On the other side, Dutt’s brother Zayed Khan gets arm-twisted by some goons in Bangkok so he lands up in the Bahama’s, leaving his girl (Katrina Kaif) behind.

The characters live in a world of item numbers and stunts with bikes and jacuzzis on them. And Lara Dutta frolics in the sea looking like male fantasy personified, before she is kidnapped by Bangkok baddie (Rahul Dev) out for revenge.

In the first half, the director takes you through sunny Bahamas and Bangkok, and tries to establish a relationship of sorts between the lead characters. The much talked about treasure hunt, which was allegedly at the heart of this film, comes and goes before you can say ‘Blue’.

Akshay Kumar wears some cool suits (designer Narendra Kumar Ahmed) and sports a grey goatee. Sanjay Dutt who wears sunglasses looks great in the fight scenes. Zayed Khan gets to ride some hot Ducatti motorbikes and exchange very strange, stilted dialogues with Katrina Kaif (”special appearance”).

The film has some cool songs portraying Lara Dutta & Kylie Minogue in hot sizzling dresses.

   Director: Anthony D’Souza
Writer: Bryan Sullivan (screenplay)
Release Date: 16 October 2009 (India) more
Type: Action | Adventure | Romance | ThrillerCasting:
* Sanjay Dutt
* Akshay Kumar
* Sunil Shetty
* Kabir Bedi
* Lara Dutta
* Katrina Kaif
* Zayed Khan
* Kylie MinogueProduced by
Bryan Odom ….  line producer: Bahamas 
 
Original Music by
A.R. Rahman   
 
Film Editing by
Shyam K. Salgonkar   
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Drew Bailey ….  first assistant director 
James Bomalick ….  second unit director 
April Y. Smith ….  second assistant director: underwater sequences 
 
Sound Department
Kyle Billingsley ….  foley mixer 
Subir Kumar Das ….  production censor mixer 
Jayesh Dhakan ….  adr recordist 
Rickley W. Dumm ….  sound effects editor 
John Guentner ….  foley assistant 
Goeun Lee ….  foley editor 
Tom Marks ….  sound re-recording mixer 
Duncan Mathieson ….  assistant sound editor 
Nick Neutra ….  foley supervisor 
Rob Nokes ….  additional sound library 
Resul Pookutty ….  sound designer 
Kunal Rajan ….  sound editor 
 
Special Effects by
Jim Boulden ….  animatronic effects 
Alex Hill ….  special effects foreman 
Allan B. Holt ….  special effects technician 
Adam Howarth ….  special effects 
Adam Howarth ….  special effects: Thailand 
 
Visual Effects by
Anish Holla ….  render wrangler/render support 
Ashutosh Khandelwal ….  render wrangler/render support 
Ian McFadyen ….  CG supervisor 
Ramsai Rayanapati ….  lighting lead 
Raghvendra Shrivastava ….  compositor 
Merzin Tavaria ….  visual effects supervisor 
Yatin Vij ….  visual effects coordinator 
 
Stunts
Andrew Scott Dixon ….  stunt coordinator: Thailand 
Andrew Scott Dixon ….  stunt double: Sanjay Dutt 
Alex Hill ….  stunts 
Mike Serlin ….  stunt double 
Scott Workman ….  stunt coordinator: underwater work 
Neil Andrea ….  underwater stunt double (uncredited) 
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Erik Curtis ….  assistant camera: underwater camera 
Sean P. Gilbert ….  underwater first assistant camera 
Patrick Longman ….  aerial cinematographer 
Kenny Rivenbark ….  libra operator 
Anthony Zibelli ….  libra head operator 
Peter Zuccarini ….  underwater director of photography 
 
Music Department
Abbas Tyrewala ….  lyricist 
 
Other crew
Mark Davies ….  shipping coordinator 
Farah Khan ….  choreographer 
Kulthep Narula ….  line producer: Thailand 
Julian Wall ….  creative director