Movie Review : Baaghi 2

Baaghi 2

The thrill for action

Mystery, thriller, romance, dance and action makes a typical Bollywood movie. All elements included in Baaghi 2 takes it a notch higher in fact its actually a preview to how talented Tiger shroff  is. The movie rests truly on his shoulders. As we all are aware that he is capable of incredible action and dance sequences. Somehow he has always been underplayed with movies like  Munna Michale, Flying Jatt etc. With Baaghi 2 Tiger Shroff brings in class action and good acting. He playes an Army Jawan special forces named (Ranveer Pratap Singh urf Ronnie). Thus the military hair cut changes his looks to a dashing young man and his sizzling abs add to his action hero image.

The movie falls short in many domains like direction, editing, screenplay, dialogues. It is quite flawed that one doesn’t feel the connectivity as well as the feeling of watching something new and fresh. Except for the action sequences the script and dialogues are dull nothing that we haven’t  had heard before. Editing puts huge dent as different shots are clearly visible with poor connectivity from one frame to the other. Songs are dispensable and are too close to each other in the first half and why o why! Was there a need to take Jacqueline Fernandes to recreate Madhuri’s “Ek do teen”. The legendary song’s recreation is utterly bosh in terms of music and choreography. They should have put an original item song instead of a recreation. I feel sometimes song recreations in films are just to fasten the movie completion in absence of creativity. Some characters like Prateek Babbar are being wasted. He is a good actor and his negative role should have been enhanced more. The comic timing of Randeep Hooda gives us those laughter moments.

So watch this movie for Tiger shroff and its first half that goes well in creating the mystery and second half for Tiger’s action scenes. He is here and he has arrived. We surely will see him in amazing action movies in future that can blow our mind. Baaghi 2 will leave you asking for more of Tiger Shroff. The challenge while watching it is to ignore the rest. I will surely recommend this movie to go watch in cinema halls.

Movie Review: Raid

Movie Review

Raid 

As the name suggests the movie is about a Raid. An Income Tax Raid on a white house. Set in the 80’s this movie is based on a true story in lucknow of an IRS Deputy Commissioner who raids an MP. A great story telling by Raj Kumar Gupta who is accredited for his direction in movies like (No one killed Jessica, Aamir). Gripping story with good dialogues, acting finesse by Saurabh Shukla and Ajay Devgan. The biggest concern and driver of all economies through out the centuries since the upgrade from the barter system has been the “lagaan” the tax paid for the governance. This movie hence becomes special for the subject matter of honest working of IT department. An IT Deputy commissioner Amay Patnaik currently posted in Lucknow reputed to be uncorrupt and diligent towards his work with deliberate ignorance towards his humongous amount of transfers is played by Ajay Devgan. The raided MP Rameshwar Singh played by Saurabh Shukla exhausts all (Sham, Daam, Dand, Bhedh) avenues to ensure Patnaik fails his task of returning the confiscated tax evaded wealth into Indian govt treasury. The movie keeps you glued to the screen to see what happens next and to find out the person who tips Patnaik (Ajay Devgan) about the hidden stash of cash, gold, jewelry etc.

Watching the movie definitely gives a thrilling experience as it grips and entertains. The simple case of an extended Income tax Raid is smartly made into a 2 hour movie but the story is extremely gripping and performances makes you connect to the characters to always look forward to what next. Both the main actors are so well placed. Both actors Devgan and Shukla have great comic timings and to play the serious roles with the same excellence is extremely enjoyable and commendable.  Raid is a great movie to watch and should not be missed.