I finally had the chance to watch this movie on netflix. It could have been a great action film if not for the poor direction, ridiculously long runtime and negative stereotypes.
One of the biggest flaws of this movie was its messy narrative. Non-linear narratives are nothing uncommon in movies. Some of the best movies have non-linear narratives but there is a proper way to show it. The director Sandeep Reddy Vanga failed miserably to show a proper non-linear narrative in this movie. It was very unorganized and I was confused several times during the movie whether certain events were happening in flashbacks or in present day.
Another flaw is its poor execution. This is evident mainly during the action sequences when there are songs playing in the background. It totally ruins the mood and because of that, the intensity of the action is not felt at all. No doubt the songs were awful but the fact that some of those songs were being played during the fights made it even worse and this supposedly violent action film seemed like a comedy film. This is a sign of poor direction and lack of knowledge of how to portray action sequences.
The ridiculously long runtime is another problem. The plot of this movie is not something good enough to support the movie for 3.5 hours so they had to fill some parts in with songs and this made the movie quite unbearable. Luckily I saw this movie on netflix so I was able to skip the unnecessary parts.
This movie has some nasty scenes which didn't need to be there. The underwear jokes, the kissing scenes and the sex scenes were totally unnecessary and without them, the movie could have been much better.
Another massive flaw of this movie was the negative stereotypes. People are shown to be drinking alcohol at a Muslim wedding. Seriously? What kind of Muslim wedding is this? Has the director personally been to any Muslim wedding where alcohol is served? Alcohol consumption is unequivocally prohibited in Islam. Aside from that Muslim men are portrayed as perverted psychopaths while Muslim women are portrayed as promiscuous and shameless. Anyone with common sense would know that this is nothing but a sick fantasy which exists only in the director's mind. This is extremely outrageous. Somehow this doesn't surprise me since vilification of Muslims is the new norm in Bollywood.
Another issue was that throughout the entire movie there were no police involvement. So many people dead and so many shootings and killings, yet absolutely no police presence. Ranbir and his entire gang fly to Scotland and kill so many men, yet there's no police. The final fight between Ranbir Kapoor and Bobby Deol happens on a runway yet there's no police around. Ranbir and his gang fly back and their wounds are still fresh. How is this possible? What the actual F?
Finally the most ridiculous thing in the movie was watching Ranbir Kapoor using 2 axes to take down 300 men with machine guns ALL BY HIMSELF while the rest of his gang were singing. After watching this movie, I'm fully convinced that the script of this movie was written by a mentally ill person. It's an absolute shame that a movie like this actually made so much money.
Coming to the performances, Ranbir Kapoor gave his career best performance in this movie. No doubt the movie was terrible but his unbelievably good performance is definitely one of the few positives in this movie. The intensity required to portray this character of a troubled child with daddy issues who grows up to become a merciless crime boss was well present in his performance. This is mainly because part of the character has similarities with Ranbir Kapoor's personal life. His relationship with his father Rishi Kapoor was quite similar to the character's relationship with his father in this movie. Distant and unhealthy. So to a particular extent, Ranbir was playing himself.
Anil Kapoor was amazing as the emotionally distant and absent father. He's one of the few actors who is doing amazing in almost every movie he's in even at this age.
Bobby Deol was pretty good in his extremely short role. He was there in only 3 scenes and that too in the last hour of this 3.5 hour long movie. I really wish he had more screen time but alas! Given his poor star status, this is all he can get in Bollywood today.
Rashmika Mandanna was absolutely unbearable. The biggest problem is that her Hindi is very bad. It becomes quite evident since her sentences change very often from "tum" and "tumhara" to "tu" and "tera". In one scene she uses "tum" while talking to Ranbir and she ends the sentence with "tera". Her acting was horrible. Even Tripti Dimri got more recognition despite Rashmika being the lead actress in this movie. Rashmika really needs improve on her Hindi before she can think of doing movie Hindi movies.
The rest of the actors and actresses did fine in their roles. Overall this movie could have easily been an enjoyable action film if not for the above mentioned flaws. The director Sandeep Reddy Vanga failed to deliver a decent action film. This film suffers from poor execution and is nothing but the director's disgusting fantasy.
Sandeep needs to understand that putting songs in movies make it unbearable and unwatchable. This is not the Bollywood of the 80's and 90's. Also putting songs in the background during fight scenes makes the action laughable and turns it in to a comedy film.
To those who didn't watch it in the theatres, good job! If you wanna watch it, do so on netflix where you can skip the nasty and unnecessary parts.
One of the biggest flaws of this movie was its messy narrative. Non-linear narratives are nothing uncommon in movies. Some of the best movies have non-linear narratives but there is a proper way to show it. The director Sandeep Reddy Vanga failed miserably to show a proper non-linear narrative in this movie. It was very unorganized and I was confused several times during the movie whether certain events were happening in flashbacks or in present day.
Another flaw is its poor execution. This is evident mainly during the action sequences when there are songs playing in the background. It totally ruins the mood and because of that, the intensity of the action is not felt at all. No doubt the songs were awful but the fact that some of those songs were being played during the fights made it even worse and this supposedly violent action film seemed like a comedy film. This is a sign of poor direction and lack of knowledge of how to portray action sequences.
The ridiculously long runtime is another problem. The plot of this movie is not something good enough to support the movie for 3.5 hours so they had to fill some parts in with songs and this made the movie quite unbearable. Luckily I saw this movie on netflix so I was able to skip the unnecessary parts.
This movie has some nasty scenes which didn't need to be there. The underwear jokes, the kissing scenes and the sex scenes were totally unnecessary and without them, the movie could have been much better.
Another massive flaw of this movie was the negative stereotypes. People are shown to be drinking alcohol at a Muslim wedding. Seriously? What kind of Muslim wedding is this? Has the director personally been to any Muslim wedding where alcohol is served? Alcohol consumption is unequivocally prohibited in Islam. Aside from that Muslim men are portrayed as perverted psychopaths while Muslim women are portrayed as promiscuous and shameless. Anyone with common sense would know that this is nothing but a sick fantasy which exists only in the director's mind. This is extremely outrageous. Somehow this doesn't surprise me since vilification of Muslims is the new norm in Bollywood.
Another issue was that throughout the entire movie there were no police involvement. So many people dead and so many shootings and killings, yet absolutely no police presence. Ranbir and his entire gang fly to Scotland and kill so many men, yet there's no police. The final fight between Ranbir Kapoor and Bobby Deol happens on a runway yet there's no police around. Ranbir and his gang fly back and their wounds are still fresh. How is this possible? What the actual F?
Finally the most ridiculous thing in the movie was watching Ranbir Kapoor using 2 axes to take down 300 men with machine guns ALL BY HIMSELF while the rest of his gang were singing. After watching this movie, I'm fully convinced that the script of this movie was written by a mentally ill person. It's an absolute shame that a movie like this actually made so much money.
Coming to the performances, Ranbir Kapoor gave his career best performance in this movie. No doubt the movie was terrible but his unbelievably good performance is definitely one of the few positives in this movie. The intensity required to portray this character of a troubled child with daddy issues who grows up to become a merciless crime boss was well present in his performance. This is mainly because part of the character has similarities with Ranbir Kapoor's personal life. His relationship with his father Rishi Kapoor was quite similar to the character's relationship with his father in this movie. Distant and unhealthy. So to a particular extent, Ranbir was playing himself.
Anil Kapoor was amazing as the emotionally distant and absent father. He's one of the few actors who is doing amazing in almost every movie he's in even at this age.
Bobby Deol was pretty good in his extremely short role. He was there in only 3 scenes and that too in the last hour of this 3.5 hour long movie. I really wish he had more screen time but alas! Given his poor star status, this is all he can get in Bollywood today.
Rashmika Mandanna was absolutely unbearable. The biggest problem is that her Hindi is very bad. It becomes quite evident since her sentences change very often from "tum" and "tumhara" to "tu" and "tera". In one scene she uses "tum" while talking to Ranbir and she ends the sentence with "tera". Her acting was horrible. Even Tripti Dimri got more recognition despite Rashmika being the lead actress in this movie. Rashmika really needs improve on her Hindi before she can think of doing movie Hindi movies.
The rest of the actors and actresses did fine in their roles. Overall this movie could have easily been an enjoyable action film if not for the above mentioned flaws. The director Sandeep Reddy Vanga failed to deliver a decent action film. This film suffers from poor execution and is nothing but the director's disgusting fantasy.
Sandeep needs to understand that putting songs in movies make it unbearable and unwatchable. This is not the Bollywood of the 80's and 90's. Also putting songs in the background during fight scenes makes the action laughable and turns it in to a comedy film.
To those who didn't watch it in the theatres, good job! If you wanna watch it, do so on netflix where you can skip the nasty and unnecessary parts.
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