- Film : Dabangg2
- Producer : Arbaaz Khan, Malaika Arora Khan
- Director : Arbaaz Khan
- Star Cast : Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Kareena Kapoor, Malaika Arora Khan, Prakash Raj, Arbaaz Khan...
- Music Director : Sajid-Wajid
- Rating :
2.5
Regardless of this movie, I always had the idea that Salman Khan had movies that had a striking similarity earlier and just as that idea was waning off from my mind here comes the spoiler.
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Story
The rare combination of corrupt but good cop, Chulbul Pandey moves with his wife, Rajjo, (Sonakshi Sinha) and family; step-father Prajapati (Vinod Khanna) and brother Makkhi (Arbaaz Khan), to Kanpur where he would have his own troop of loyalists transferred along with him too. While the whole town feel happy with his presence in the town, the local don/ political aspirant, Thakur Bachcha and his sons feel the opposite since his attitude meddles with their mischief.After an incident of abduction of a bride from a wedding, Bachcha’s brother Gainda is denounced during the time of elections while the campaign for elections continues. Salman finds the brother and teaches him a lesson. At the same time he bonds with his father while telling him about his son.
Will the brothers unite and plan the doom of Robin Hood Pandey?
Analysis :
Novelty
has been forsaken completely in the movie so please kindly keep in mind
that you are watching Dabangg in a different form at the most. Script
is almost the same and what makes it worse is the screenplay which makes
you confused if the guy at the theater by mistake has been playing the
first part instead of the second. In a few scenes this might be the
right thing to do while entertaining the crowd that they are watching
Dabangg series but it also gives you the impression of being downright
lazy. If there is someone who can explain how the family bonds without
the mother in the movie I would be thankful to them.Makkhi is dumb but so that that his wife is missing? Why does Prakash Raj come back for a late revenge? What makes the movie worthwhile is the comedy track of the movie. One-liners seem to be fine especially since we are waiting for them. Rajjo and Salman are a cute pair with great chemistry.
For a debut movie, Arbaaz Khan can be proud. The BGM is enjoyable throughout the movie. Action scenes are done well with nice slo-mo fights. The songs need no intro, Sajid Wajid have been great. Oh and you do have a climax scene where Salman goes topless in a fight, in a less dramatic way though.
Performance :
Salman
Khan, as the Kung Fu Pandey is hilarious and has done well but only
with the comedy and a bit of action. We couldn’t understand if it was
the character or his face that was without emotions. Sonakshi is good in
the movie though we like her to be more active than just dry clothes in
the movie. Arbaaz Khan is a class 1 idiot, no offence, he did justice
to the role. Vinod Khanna, played a great step-father. A few moving
scenes when he describes his love and his wife.Poorest was Prakash Raj, comparing him with his own old self. With a notoriety in the movie industry to be the best villain, Prakash Raj has decided not to use the talent. You can’t be badder than Gainda, Deepak Dobriyal is the best in this role. Malaika and Kareena were charming in the item song.
(AW- Anil)
3.5
Ram
Sampath, who made a few quirky numbers with great catchy tunes in Delhi
Belly has been put to test once more by Aamir Khan and he has passed,
though not with flying colors. Lyrics from Javed Akhtar have been penned
with great attention to the moods. Though they may not be chartbusters,
a few songs like Laakh duniya kahe', Jee le zaraa' etc definitely would
find some space on your iPods for quite some time. More to come after
the movie releases on November 30.
Without
a doubt we can expect the classiest of the action from Aamir Khan
notwithstanding the role he has been assigned. This movie shall only
strengthen the fact further. Kareena has been doing great with the roles
of a sex worker recently and we see no reason why she should fail in
this movie. Rani Mukherjee who has made a comeback recently with Aiyaa
has been back to form clearly. After her warm-up exercise, this would
definitely make it to one of her best movies.
Like
in the beginning we said it has all the ingredients a typical masala
movie should have. But in-spite of this it falls flat at times. Some
slap-stick ,loud jokes may give you the reason to rename SOS to “Save
Our Soul” . But if you leave-your-brain-at-home and if you liked movies
like Golmaal series then this might work for you. The writers tried to
make every sequence as funny as they could but in that process they
ended up overdoing it. There is no proper storyline and the flaws in the
scripts are clearly visible when there is an unnecessary twist in the
love story of the lead pair or ending of decades long Khandani dushmani
in nearly fifteen – twenty second.
On
the acting front all the actors have done moderately well which makes
you angry for the relatively bad script. Ajay as a Sardar , no Bhagat
Singh but Lovable, Sanjay as billu is entertaining, Sonakshi as a
punjabi kudi is convincing but the real show- stealer is Mukul Dev as
Tony with his drunkard Sardar role. Juhi is as graceful as always .
