Dirty Politics’ is about how an ambitious dancer-turned-politician Anokhi Devi goes missing and how a stern investigator ropes in two honest cops to unearth the mystery behind her disappearance. Despite a clutch of talented veteran actors, the political drama isn’t elevated to a film that reveals the dark side of human nature or the steaminess in Indian politics

While, Dirty Politics has very little to create any interest, Mallika Sherawat’s skin show is the only attraction in the film. In one line, watch Dirty Politics only if you have no better things to do

And then Sherawat is made to pull out the ‘ch…’ word from her arsenal and yell it out, when she is not crossing her legs, seated on a throne, Sharon Stone-style. And here I thought ‘gaalis’ were being excised left, right and centre. This is it, kiddies. Me, I’m off to grab the left-over `gujiyas’ and ‘thandai’ 

Dirty Politics is, from end to end, a messy affair that reeks of all-round mediocrity despite the presence in the cast of actors of the calibre of Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah 

Silly isn’t a term broad enough to encapsulate the zest of this movie. Stories like these demand a little more sensitivity but the director’s incoherence of understanding the theme make this a wasted attempt. Expect to remain unmoved by this film which tries to unleash the morally corrupt face of Indian politics