Blue (2009) has a very simple plot. Professional diver Sagar (Sanjay Dutt) knows the location of the Lady in Blue, a ship which sank in 1949, carrying a fantastic treasure. he does not want to look for the treasure, but eventually he does, and also Kylie Minogue shows up for an item number.
It's not quite that simple, but it's pretty close to that simple. Sagar lives in the Bahamas, and he works with and for Aarav (Akshay Kumar), who is wealthy, cocky, and a determined womanizer. Sagar, on the other hand, just wants a quiet life with his gorgeous girlfriend Mona (Lara Dutta), who dreams of opening an aquatic wildlife center.
Sagar's father was a marine archeologist, and it's rumored that he found the Lady in Blue, took some of the treasure, and abandoned his two sons. Aarav thinks that Sagar should find the wreck, secure his future, and fund Mona's institute, but Sagar doesn't want to, so instead the two men spend their time bonding in various macho ways, like boxing and rescuing a hat from a shark.
But Sagar does have a brother. Sam (Zayed Khan) ran away five years ago, and now he's competing in underground motorcycle street races in Bangkok. He defeats gangster Gulshan (Rahul Dev), in the process scoring a date with Gulshan's employee Nikki (Katrina Kaif.) Gulshan is also impressed, and offers Sam a job; he'll pay him 50,000 dollars to carry a package across town. After a bit of macho posturing, Sam takes the job.
After Sam leaves, Gulshan calls the police. Suddenly there are four police motorcycles chasing Sam, leading to an enormous, almost apocalyptic amount of collateral damage, and also Sam losing the package. Gulshan contacts him and tells him that he wants to be paid fifty million dollars as compensation. There's no possible way that Sam could pay that much money, so he has to run before Gulshan kills him. Nikki asks if he can think of anywhere he could run to, and Sam tells the woman he barely knows who works for the man trying to kill him that he'll be staying with his brother in the Bahamas.
The brothers are reunited, and then nothing happens for awhile. Sam and Sagar hang out with Aarav for a while, they go to a club and meet Kylie Minogue, and Sagar still doesn't want to look for the Lady in Blue.
And then Gulshan shows up, threatens Sam, blows up Sagar's house, kidnaps Mona, and indicates that he would like fifty million dollars please. As it happens, Sagar knows the location of a sunken ship filled with treasure, so he teams up with Sam and Aarav to find the shipwreck and dive for the treasure.
So much diving. The underwater scenery is impressive, but the diving scenes are sloooow and dialogue free, so the momentum grinds to a halt whenever the characters go underwater. That's not the only padding in the movie, though. The bike races are long, the chase scenes are long, and the the endless discussions of whether Sagar should look for the Lady in Blue are long. There's a whole lot of nothing happening in the movie, then a very frenetic ending to wrap everything up.
That's not the problem with Blue. The problem is that the film thinks we like Aarav. Sagar's the protagonist, but he's written to be stolid and kind of dull (which is a shame, because Dutt is at his best when he gets to be funny and roguish) so Aarav is supposed to be the lovable scamp. He's not. He's sleazy, obnoxious, overbearing, and insufferably smug. This is supposed to be a pulpy adventure, but it takes forever to get to the adventure, so we just have to watch Sagar mope and Aarav brag about his money, his many girlfriends,and the fact that he always wins.
On the plus side, the music is by A. R. Rahman, and he is reliably good.