Starring

Sanjay Dutt as Sattarbhai

Arjun Rampal as Ryan

Malaika Arora  as Prerna

Ashish Choudhary as Anil

Neha Oberoi as Shilpa

Urmila Matondkar as Prerna

Kulbhushan Kharbanda as Chandrakant

Director- Saurabh Kadra

Producer- Sunil Shetty

Music- Chirantan Bhatt

Lyrics- Shakeel Azmi, Sarim

EMI is a film solely inspired by the Munnabhai flicks with the same old Sanjay Dutt doing all bhaigiri. Though Sanju’s role is pretty much shorter than expected, the director has concentrated more onto the other five characters. EMI is all about a loan recovery agent Sattarbhai, who owns Good Luck Recovery Agency. Sattarbhai is more of a good hearted goon rather a typical loan recovery agent. He not only helps the defaulters to pay back their loans but also helps them in solving their personal problems. Here is the common essence of the characters of Munnabhai and Sattatbhai.

Amongst the five defaulters, one is Ryan, played by Arjun Rampal with his gold digging girlfriend, played by Malaika Arora who leaves him bankrupt. There is a newly married couple played by Ashish Choudhary and Neha Oberoi who takes loan to get marry but ends up with a divorce and as usual fails to pay their debts back. There is a widow played by Urmila with a five-year-old girl, who is trying to prove her husband’s suicide as murder to get the insurance money. For this purpose she has taken a huge loan and now goes defaulter. The last character is played by Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Chandrakant, an old dad who struggles to pay off his loans he has taken for his son’s education.

Sattarbhai, unlike the typical goons, does not use his muscles to make those characters repaying their debts. He rather helps them to repay their loans to bank and not only that in the due course, he falls in love with the widow.

EMI is a film with a good story but with a very weak cinematic representation. Some plots seem to be woven very loosely. The cause of the divorce between Ashish Choudhary and Neha Oberoi is vague. The essential scenes of Malaika’s squandering the credit card money of Arjun are missing from the film. Urmila seems to be very uncomfortable in playing the character of a widow with a girl child. More over, the film ends up so abruptly that everyone would feel that the director wanted to wrap up the half-baked plots as soon as possible.

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