Starting on a promising note this Hindi remake of Malayalam movie comically displays the struggle of Shekhar(Akshay Khanna) and Raju(Arshad Warsi), in the Mumbai city, failed to make an impact. While Raju reach the heights of super stardom after stealing a script, Shekhar's struggle continues, especially after his script gets stolen. The twist in the tale comes when fate brings the two characters, who share different philosophies on lives, together yet again. The situation takes another turn when Mansi (Amrita), a leading actress marries Akshaye Khanna (who plays a writer cum director), but incidentally gets involved with Arshad.

The storyline of Short Kut had different shades followed by fast paced situations generating flippancy. Ego clashes topples the plot. But the movie fails in its execution and in the deliberate attempt to make the climax unconventional, which instead turned out to be confusing and disgusting. There is nothing exceptional about the cinematography, except the beautiful display of Thailand locales in few songs. The musical score by Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy, is about average. Watch out for the “Mareeje Mohabbat” song which witnesses Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor shaking legs with Amrita Rao.

Kirron Kher, Javed Jaffery and Boman Irani pops up in between to add zing Bosco Caeser, has done a good job, but somewhere the choreography was too naive and wanting in punk. Since the movie focusses on the rise and fall of a character and the dirty tricks which people play to enter the world of stardom, the direction could have been better if the director stuck to making it a dark comedy.