TOI Review-
Naseeruddin Shah who plays an encounter specialist in the film substantiates his seniority by citing the exact number of his encounters as 56. Unfortunately Kabeer Kaushik's encounter-specialist story 'Maximum' doesn't even come up with an original figure on the encounter count and rather derives it from the cult film in the genre - Ab Tak Chhappan (56). More unfortunately, Bollywood has encountered the quintessential encounter specialist so many times by now that there isn't anything special left about the character or his chronicle anymore.
Pratap Pandit (Sonu Sood) is a leading encounter specialist in the Mumbai police department. He unapologetically guns down criminals, has telephonic faceoff with dons settled abroad and has a housewife (Neha Dhupia) who would be subsequently killed by his rivals in the climax. While the film is not a complete rip-off of Ab Tak Chhappan, there are 56 or more such similar elements. Inamdar (Naseeruddin Shah) who was once Pandit's senior is now just his second fiddle in the department. The film primarily is the battle between these two encounter specialists to gain maximum power in their line of duty.
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The film opens with the word MAXIMUMBAI, suggesting either a superheroic clean-up lady or a city inundated by unminiskirts.
Lamentably enough, Kabeer Kaushik's cop thriller is neither of those potentially fun things, and not even really a thriller. It's a pity, for Kaushik's Sehar remains one of the most solid cop movies in recent years.
This one, however, tries too hard to appear 'intelligent,' which is why voices are softened and conversations are made matter-of-fact. The idea of corrupt cops facing off against each other can be a fine one, but mired here in the midst of people saying things really really slowly, it loses its steam.
A stubbly Vivek Mushran type rides a train with a sketchbook, but his subjects are cops -- more baton baton than Baaton Baaton Mein here, clearly. He works in a news channel, and befriends an exasperatingly calm top cop, played by Sonu Sood
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Rating- 2*
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