A movie about honour killings that have swept the sands of Northern India is what is seemingly the USP of this action packed CBI melodrama. Having watched this movie in an almost empty SRS Cinema hall in Gurgaon, I felt more like at home.
Priyadarsan takes a different route this time and decides to put up a Action Investigation film on the lines of Malayalam Sethurama Iyer CBI movies, although, the plot is more fresh and not really a remake of any particular malayalam film, like he used to do previously.
The film has been set in a village JHANJHAR in North India, where three young men have vanished and apparently suspected to be killed by their classmates in some medical college in New Delhi. Thus, sets Akshaye Khanna, a very dutiful, thanda & gassy CBI officer en route to Jhaanjhar to track the wrong doers. Funnily, Jhaanjhar is a real village in Haryana, but the villagers speak in Bhojpurish Hindi which is nothing like the aggressive tone that's used in Haryanvi Hindi and the fact of the matter is that the entire film has been shot in Tamil Nadu! So, the idea never really merges, for one can easily see the temple style is totally Chola (Tamil Style) and looks nothing like the one's in Northern India. Any way, one can get over it as soon as the movie starts rolling.
Story is simple, no big suspense here! Ajay Devgun is a dalit who grows up to be a valiant officer (Captain) and is assisting the ever patient yet overly impatient while speaking Akshaye Khanna. They try tracking down the Shool Sena who have taken the theka of doing the honour killings in the name of JAAT PAAT blah blah blah!
The villain...er...villains are led amazingly by Paresh Rawal. Jaideep Ahlawat plays one of the bad guys (whom I had met at the Mdu Youth Fest, last year). Rest of the story is fresh for the hindi audience, but we witness such stories everyday in the Tamil & Malayalam forays! Nothing new! Oh Yea! There are some girls too who have absolutely no importance in the movie, but just to make it multi starrer there is an Oomphless Bipasha Basu, Pitiable Amita Pathak and NON-LOW CASTE looking parlourised village girls including Reema Sen (Reema who??? =P)
I am really tired to write a synopsis on the story, but in a nutshell, it really doesn't revolve around honour killings, but rather on a simple murder investigation.
The music is average, the only good song that I anticipated was chopped off from the movie, while the rest were really reworked versions of Pritam's earlier songs like Kaise batau k tujhko chaahu etc.
The Cinematography was one reason, why one can sit through the film, it gives you a feel of Action...raw action throughout the movie, although I really felt that the lighting could have been better at parts where they had to show scenes at night. Action, well, it's the sole driving factor of the movie! Ajay Devgun has most of the action sequences to himself and steals away all the thunder with very realistic OVER THE TOP stunts and all of it were executed perfectly! The third notable thing about the movie is it's dialogues! Bhojpuri tone adds up some humor which is excellently executed by Paresh's timing and brilliant acting.
Performance-wise Paresh stands out! EXCELLENT acting...he can do any role! Ajay is ok, but at times he seems like reading out from a book while Akshaye does better than Ajay, though he still shouts as if he's having gas trouble! Jaideep Ahlawat has done well too and so has the character who has played the SARKARI GAWAH! Amazing performance! As for the girls, they were not really necessary...blah! Bipasha aunty looks pathetic in the song sequence and has no real role while Reema Sen does the honour of killing the bad guys! (OOPS I just oozed out the climax..did I? =P)
All in all, this movie is really worth watching once. it's better than Anjaani Anjaani and Crook, but yea! If you have not got much time to waste, then forget all movies, book a shoe of Enthiran/Robot ASAP!
Priyadarsan can do much much better than this....Have seen his first movie till this one....they have only deteriorated! Please do something! Aakrosh is better than the previous one's but don't think it would survive the week for the movie which is virtually based on Haryana had empty seats in theatres of Haryana!
MY VERDICT - Watchable mainly because of Tirru's cinematography and the punchy dialogues and performances by the male actors
My RATING - 6.7/10
Priyadarsan takes a different route this time and decides to put up a Action Investigation film on the lines of Malayalam Sethurama Iyer CBI movies, although, the plot is more fresh and not really a remake of any particular malayalam film, like he used to do previously.
The film has been set in a village JHANJHAR in North India, where three young men have vanished and apparently suspected to be killed by their classmates in some medical college in New Delhi. Thus, sets Akshaye Khanna, a very dutiful, thanda & gassy CBI officer en route to Jhaanjhar to track the wrong doers. Funnily, Jhaanjhar is a real village in Haryana, but the villagers speak in Bhojpurish Hindi which is nothing like the aggressive tone that's used in Haryanvi Hindi and the fact of the matter is that the entire film has been shot in Tamil Nadu! So, the idea never really merges, for one can easily see the temple style is totally Chola (Tamil Style) and looks nothing like the one's in Northern India. Any way, one can get over it as soon as the movie starts rolling.
Story is simple, no big suspense here! Ajay Devgun is a dalit who grows up to be a valiant officer (Captain) and is assisting the ever patient yet overly impatient while speaking Akshaye Khanna. They try tracking down the Shool Sena who have taken the theka of doing the honour killings in the name of JAAT PAAT blah blah blah!
The villain...er...villains are led amazingly by Paresh Rawal. Jaideep Ahlawat plays one of the bad guys (whom I had met at the Mdu Youth Fest, last year). Rest of the story is fresh for the hindi audience, but we witness such stories everyday in the Tamil & Malayalam forays! Nothing new! Oh Yea! There are some girls too who have absolutely no importance in the movie, but just to make it multi starrer there is an Oomphless Bipasha Basu, Pitiable Amita Pathak and NON-LOW CASTE looking parlourised village girls including Reema Sen (Reema who??? =P)
The music is average, the only good song that I anticipated was chopped off from the movie, while the rest were really reworked versions of Pritam's earlier songs like Kaise batau k tujhko chaahu etc.
The Cinematography was one reason, why one can sit through the film, it gives you a feel of Action...raw action throughout the movie, although I really felt that the lighting could have been better at parts where they had to show scenes at night. Action, well, it's the sole driving factor of the movie! Ajay Devgun has most of the action sequences to himself and steals away all the thunder with very realistic OVER THE TOP stunts and all of it were executed perfectly! The third notable thing about the movie is it's dialogues! Bhojpuri tone adds up some humor which is excellently executed by Paresh's timing and brilliant acting.
Performance-wise Paresh stands out! EXCELLENT acting...he can do any role! Ajay is ok, but at times he seems like reading out from a book while Akshaye does better than Ajay, though he still shouts as if he's having gas trouble! Jaideep Ahlawat has done well too and so has the character who has played the SARKARI GAWAH! Amazing performance! As for the girls, they were not really necessary...blah! Bipasha aunty looks pathetic in the song sequence and has no real role while Reema Sen does the honour of killing the bad guys! (OOPS I just oozed out the climax..did I? =P)
All in all, this movie is really worth watching once. it's better than Anjaani Anjaani and Crook, but yea! If you have not got much time to waste, then forget all movies, book a shoe of Enthiran/Robot ASAP!
Priyadarsan can do much much better than this....Have seen his first movie till this one....they have only deteriorated! Please do something! Aakrosh is better than the previous one's but don't think it would survive the week for the movie which is virtually based on Haryana had empty seats in theatres of Haryana!
MY VERDICT - Watchable mainly because of Tirru's cinematography and the punchy dialogues and performances by the male actors
My RATING - 6.7/10
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