India, July 10 -- Akshaye Khanna and Sunny Deol. Together. In a courtroom drama.

On paper alone, that's an irresistible combination. But as the saying goes, if something seems too good to be true, it usually is. Ikka turns out to be a damp squib. Fikka (bland in English) would have been a more fitting title.

The story, written by Althea Kaushal, revolves around Soma Mittal (Akansha Ranjan Kapoor), who is partying with Shauryaman Gaur (Akshaye Khanna) one night and, in the very next scene, is dumped on the roadside from a car, half dead. There's an eyewitness, Shauryaman is arrested. Being the son of a powerful politician, Shauryaman specifically asks for Arjun Mehra, aka Ikka (Sunny Deol), to defend him.

Arjun refuses, insisting that o...