Divya Delhi:   Race Against Time (they couldn't acquire the title Waqt, hence the stupid tagline) turns  so let's review this imperfect but heartwarming family drama. Vipul Shah's emotional arrow pierces the family audience's hearts and lodges gently, if persistently. Sure, Waqt isn't excellent film. However, its openness and authenticity carry the long family narrative through carefully maintained hills and dips to a rabble-rousing emotionally devastating finale. Gentle family ties bring you into the film. Persuasion comes from the plot's drama. The touching scenes between a rich father Ishwar (Amitabh Bachchan) and his pampered heir-apparent Aditya (Akshay Kumar), who learns responsibility the hard way, depict the family atmosphere. Though the script is melodramatic and message-oriented, director Vipul Shah has transferred a stage play to screen without letting theatrical cliches rule. This is less theatrical than Vipul Shah's Aankhen robbery. A big portion of the credit for the drama-driven plot’s success must go to the writer Aatish Kapadia whose one-liners and quips flow out with constant and instant comic consequences. Bachchan and Irani's banter is vaudeville at its best. The two actors play their hilarious verbal battle with great flair, first as feuding family friends who keep coming into each other at parties and then as reluctant in-laws.