Directed by : A.R. Murugadoss
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2556308/
Read at ur own risk, spoilers ahead…
Murugadoss last movie which was his 1st in hindi industry, was Ghajini in 2008, a gem that I enjoy watching till date. With Holiday, he slightly falters on the romantic plot which was his strength in Ghajini, but the action and thrill is upto the standard he had set then.
Captain Virat Bakshi (Akshay Kumar), an army man returns to Mumbai for a holiday with his family. His dad is eager to get him married to Sahiba (Sonakshi Sinha), and then starts a yes/no game between Virat and Sahiba before both eventually falling in love. In a casual pocket-cut inside bus, Virat and his friend in police Mukund (Sumeet Raghavan) catch a terrorist who accidentally blasts the bus and many innocent people including kids get killed. Virat now has to find out what that terrorist was upto, who is the head and how many more blasts were planned.
When Akshay does intense scenes that includes action, he has always looked terrific. And the action I am talking here is fast, and not the usual Hindi slow motion action. Kudos to the hollywood action director Greg Powell. There are two great long sequences in the movie, one where Virat has to stop 12 blasts from happening in Mumbai, and its a skillfully directed and edited scene. And the other when Virat has to avoid his sister and girls of other military officers from getting killed. While the former is more about mind execution, the latter is the raw action of Virat (and how much I love Akshay doing that).
Also, mention to the finale where Virat finally fights one to one with the head of sleeper cells, Farhad (Freddy Daruwala), a worthy scene slightly spoiled by the character who challenges Farhad and later says kill both. Love the dialogue at the end of scene ‘tu suspense mein hi marr’.
Songs are forcefully used in the movie, I would had taken both Shayraana and that pub song out of the movie, and also used Ashq na ho as end credits song just to lower the effect of song which I found very manipulative. Music wise, no chartbuster song.
What lets this movie down unfortunately is the love angle of Virat and Sahiba, which ends up as a break away from main proceedings of the plot and not having any effect. Had the writer interlinked Farhad revenge with Sahiba in some kinda of way, it would had been much better instead of plain disco or imaginary romantic scenes they have. There are some funny moments with Virat and Sahiba no doubt, but they are at the expense of losing track of main plot. Even Govinda is badly used for a 2 scene cameo.
Sumeet Raghavan does very good work as supporting character. While Freddy Daruwala has good screen presence, but can’t say the same about his acting.. I read someone’s review saying Vidyut Jamwal would had been ideal choice to play the role, and I would agree with it. But, I love the intermission scene where he talks for the first time and the reply he gets from Akshay Kumar.
Among the leads, Akshay is terrific, should do more movies like these where intense acting overtakes the comedy and romance. Sonakshi is good but then its a repetitive character which I am tired of watching her do, and her line of next movies says nothing will change, so I can’t praise her much for the moment until she has a change of brain.
Holiday may not be as good as Ghajini was, but the director does show that he can make good commercial entertainer movies which are much smarter and has meaningful action scenes with few cinematic liberties taken very well. Hope in future he doesn’t include romantic plot as a mere addition to the film.
Verdict : 3/5
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2556308/
Read at ur own risk, spoilers ahead…
Murugadoss last movie which was his 1st in hindi industry, was Ghajini in 2008, a gem that I enjoy watching till date. With Holiday, he slightly falters on the romantic plot which was his strength in Ghajini, but the action and thrill is upto the standard he had set then.
Captain Virat Bakshi (Akshay Kumar), an army man returns to Mumbai for a holiday with his family. His dad is eager to get him married to Sahiba (Sonakshi Sinha), and then starts a yes/no game between Virat and Sahiba before both eventually falling in love. In a casual pocket-cut inside bus, Virat and his friend in police Mukund (Sumeet Raghavan) catch a terrorist who accidentally blasts the bus and many innocent people including kids get killed. Virat now has to find out what that terrorist was upto, who is the head and how many more blasts were planned.
When Akshay does intense scenes that includes action, he has always looked terrific. And the action I am talking here is fast, and not the usual Hindi slow motion action. Kudos to the hollywood action director Greg Powell. There are two great long sequences in the movie, one where Virat has to stop 12 blasts from happening in Mumbai, and its a skillfully directed and edited scene. And the other when Virat has to avoid his sister and girls of other military officers from getting killed. While the former is more about mind execution, the latter is the raw action of Virat (and how much I love Akshay doing that).
Also, mention to the finale where Virat finally fights one to one with the head of sleeper cells, Farhad (Freddy Daruwala), a worthy scene slightly spoiled by the character who challenges Farhad and later says kill both. Love the dialogue at the end of scene ‘tu suspense mein hi marr’.
Songs are forcefully used in the movie, I would had taken both Shayraana and that pub song out of the movie, and also used Ashq na ho as end credits song just to lower the effect of song which I found very manipulative. Music wise, no chartbuster song.
What lets this movie down unfortunately is the love angle of Virat and Sahiba, which ends up as a break away from main proceedings of the plot and not having any effect. Had the writer interlinked Farhad revenge with Sahiba in some kinda of way, it would had been much better instead of plain disco or imaginary romantic scenes they have. There are some funny moments with Virat and Sahiba no doubt, but they are at the expense of losing track of main plot. Even Govinda is badly used for a 2 scene cameo.
Sumeet Raghavan does very good work as supporting character. While Freddy Daruwala has good screen presence, but can’t say the same about his acting.. I read someone’s review saying Vidyut Jamwal would had been ideal choice to play the role, and I would agree with it. But, I love the intermission scene where he talks for the first time and the reply he gets from Akshay Kumar.
Among the leads, Akshay is terrific, should do more movies like these where intense acting overtakes the comedy and romance. Sonakshi is good but then its a repetitive character which I am tired of watching her do, and her line of next movies says nothing will change, so I can’t praise her much for the moment until she has a change of brain.
Holiday may not be as good as Ghajini was, but the director does show that he can make good commercial entertainer movies which are much smarter and has meaningful action scenes with few cinematic liberties taken very well. Hope in future he doesn’t include romantic plot as a mere addition to the film.
Verdict : 3/5
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