Review By: Utpal S. Chaudhary
Bollywood Aaina Rating: 2.5 /5 (TWO & HALF STAR)
Banner: Balaji Motion Pictures
Producer:Ekta Kapoor
Director: Milan Luthria
Star cast: Akshay Kumar,Imran Khan,Sonakshi Sinha,Sonali Bendre,Sarfaraz Khan,Abhimanyu Shekhar Singh,Hussain Shaikh,Mushtaq Khan,Pitobash Tripathy,Tiku Talsania,Sophie Choudry
Music:Pritam Chakraborty,Anupam Amod
Singer: Javed Bashir,Javed Ali,Sunidhi Chauhan,Sahir Ali Bagga
Genre: Crime
What’s good? :ALL AVARAGE.
What’s bad?: story,
Watch or Not?: Yes, If you fan akki, sona, imran.
Running time:160 minutes
Distributed by: Balaji Motion Pictures
Bollywood Aaina Business Verdict: AVARAGE
STORY
Starting off from where Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai had ended,the film begins with Shoaib picking up a local urchin to build for himself a loyalist at crime becoming his Godfather. 12 years later, Shoaib is the biggest gangster of Bombay who handles in all the way from an Arab Nation.
Ditched by a man who plots to kill him, he makes a trip back to the city in order to eradicate his opponent.Meanwhile he and the urchin he had adopted fall in love with a budding actress, which indeed results in the strife that initiates between them – a war as to who will win the girl.
This isn’t another love triangle of ordinary people. There is a gangster in love here and the story fierce-s itself with the love, passion and obsession of its characters to win, along with the police on the hunt for the man who rules Dongri.
STARCACT
Akshay Kumar is so sleazy that he will crack you up with his dialogue delivery. It is outright hilarious. The actor fails to add depth in his character and couldn’t infuse charisma or persona in a role that Emraan Hashmi has immortalized. This Shoaib can at best manage to be a mock don but his over the top acting is such a flop show!
Sonakshi Sinha goes wrong every time she is in a commercial film. One can be rest assured that her performance in Lootera is a fluke or a mere shadow of director’s flawless cinematic abilities that he could extract such a wonderful performance from her. In this film, she is a chatterbox replete with idioticity which the director frames as naiveness. She shrieks as if possessed in the climax scene as bombards all her good, if she had done any.
Imran Khan is plain flat with nill emotions in his dialogues. His trying-too-hard-to-be-suave act will leave you yawning and doesn’t help in furthering the impression we have of him-his inherent inability to act. He could have done so much with the role but alas he painstakingly wastes every bit of it.
There is only one solid scene that the director gave to actress Sonali Bendre and she was brilliant in it. She was the only one who delivered her role in a compelling and convincing manner. In few minutes, she added depth to her character and managed to convey the emotional wreckage Shoaib’s love had caused her!
The supporting cast is needless and have nothing substantial to do. Mahesh Manjrekar’s buffonery was a pain in the literal sense of the word.
Direction / Music / Lyrics /Editing / Camera:
Director Milan Luthria opts for a very conventional treatment to this film. The cinematic liberties taken in the film are anything but acceptable. The hide-and-seek game between the police and the dreadful don is quite unrealistic and it goes without saying that it’s total filmy!
Pritam has produced a masterpiece in the form of ‘Yeh Tune Kya Kiya’ sung by Javed Bashir. The ‘Taiyyab Ali’ track is a good attempt to revive a vintage hit. But the rest of the songs, though hummable, look unnecessary. Luthria could have done without them thereby keeping the velocity of the film steady.
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