Directed by : Krish
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2424988/
Not a good follow-up to Baby, yet another forgettable Akshay movie.
We saw Akshay Kumar in ‘Baby’ just 3 months back, and how much did we loved him doing that movie. One look at his filmography and you would notice that his best films are followed with 2-3 bad movies. The pattern continues here, as ‘Gabbar is Back’ fails to make any mark.
Aditya (Akshay Kumar) is a professor at National college where he teaches his students how to fight against corruption. Its a college where police is not allowed inside, yes! Aditya’s mission is much bigger, he is a vigilante in the name of ‘Gabbar’ (the iconic Amjad Khan character from Sholay) who wants to kill the most corrupted government officials just to create his terror amongst them and eliminate corruption from the system. Is Gabbar doing all this just to help the youth, or there are more reasons behind his actions?
Why would you reveal entire action scenes through graphics right at the opening credits? Then you see Shruti Hassan being a lawyer knowing how to deliver a pregnant woman’s kid in a car. There are higher ranked police officers who sit in Police Station and do nothing to find Gabbar, except for constantly making fun of constable Sadhu (Sunil Grover), and there are Samosa/chutney jokes. Gabbar hangs dead bodies high up in air in public places, but no one ever notices, how come? Digvijay Patil (Suman Talwar) who plays a industrialist, keeps shouting one dialogue ‘I am the brand’. And he invites people at his birthday party with his face masks on them knowing Gabbar is looking to find a way to reach to him, wow so smart! Also, his performance was way too loud. I can go on and on with the loopholes.
The only scene worth praise was the hospital one where Gabbar deals with corrupted doctors in best possible manner.
Many cliches like cameo of Kareena Kapoor Khan involving a flashback sequence which only reduces the impact of ‘Gabbar’ angle or Shruti-Akshay romantic angle that doesn’t work too, infact I am still wondering why was she even in the film. Also, the social message is carried out with a long preaching dialogue sequence. And there’s a very comical building collapse scene too.
Since 'Gabbar is Back’ is a remake of Tamil movie, Ramanaa, we see plenty of south style action which isn’t new to us. The background score is loud, but the reworked 'Sholay Gabbar’ signature tune used at various places is a respite to ears. Rajat Arora once used to give powerful punchlines, his dialogues are again a huge disappointment in this movie, the only one that stays with you is ’naam se villain, kaam se hero’.
Music by Yo Yo Honey Singh, Chirantan Bhatt and Manj Musik is ordinary with only ‘Teri Meri Kahaani’ track that sounds okay, while there is a regressive item song ‘kundi na tharkaayo’ which features Chitrangada Singh, a fine actress busy doing these songs these days, what a pity!
Sunil Grover impresses the most among plenty of T.V actors in the movie, might just help him get good supporting roles in future which would be really nice.
Govind Namdev, Nikitin Dheer and Jaideep Ahlawat are wasted in the movie.
Akshay Kumar is always lovely to watch in action oriented plots with perfect dose of humor, his beard look is pretty good too but I wasn’t pleased with his dialogue delivery that looked more filmy than real, and it didn’t help either that some of those dialogues were Amjad Khan’s famous lines. Yet he lets you survive the film till the end, a statement very common with his movies more often than not.
'Gabbar is Back’ is a movie that has no logic, no romantic plots to emotionally invest in and it entertains in small parts only. Watch if you are a die hard Akshay Kumar fan, else skip it.
Verdict : 1.5/5
Imdb link -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2424988/
Not a good follow-up to Baby, yet another forgettable Akshay movie.
We saw Akshay Kumar in ‘Baby’ just 3 months back, and how much did we loved him doing that movie. One look at his filmography and you would notice that his best films are followed with 2-3 bad movies. The pattern continues here, as ‘Gabbar is Back’ fails to make any mark.
Aditya (Akshay Kumar) is a professor at National college where he teaches his students how to fight against corruption. Its a college where police is not allowed inside, yes! Aditya’s mission is much bigger, he is a vigilante in the name of ‘Gabbar’ (the iconic Amjad Khan character from Sholay) who wants to kill the most corrupted government officials just to create his terror amongst them and eliminate corruption from the system. Is Gabbar doing all this just to help the youth, or there are more reasons behind his actions?
Why would you reveal entire action scenes through graphics right at the opening credits? Then you see Shruti Hassan being a lawyer knowing how to deliver a pregnant woman’s kid in a car. There are higher ranked police officers who sit in Police Station and do nothing to find Gabbar, except for constantly making fun of constable Sadhu (Sunil Grover), and there are Samosa/chutney jokes. Gabbar hangs dead bodies high up in air in public places, but no one ever notices, how come? Digvijay Patil (Suman Talwar) who plays a industrialist, keeps shouting one dialogue ‘I am the brand’. And he invites people at his birthday party with his face masks on them knowing Gabbar is looking to find a way to reach to him, wow so smart! Also, his performance was way too loud. I can go on and on with the loopholes.
The only scene worth praise was the hospital one where Gabbar deals with corrupted doctors in best possible manner.
Many cliches like cameo of Kareena Kapoor Khan involving a flashback sequence which only reduces the impact of ‘Gabbar’ angle or Shruti-Akshay romantic angle that doesn’t work too, infact I am still wondering why was she even in the film. Also, the social message is carried out with a long preaching dialogue sequence. And there’s a very comical building collapse scene too.
Since 'Gabbar is Back’ is a remake of Tamil movie, Ramanaa, we see plenty of south style action which isn’t new to us. The background score is loud, but the reworked 'Sholay Gabbar’ signature tune used at various places is a respite to ears. Rajat Arora once used to give powerful punchlines, his dialogues are again a huge disappointment in this movie, the only one that stays with you is ’naam se villain, kaam se hero’.
Music by Yo Yo Honey Singh, Chirantan Bhatt and Manj Musik is ordinary with only ‘Teri Meri Kahaani’ track that sounds okay, while there is a regressive item song ‘kundi na tharkaayo’ which features Chitrangada Singh, a fine actress busy doing these songs these days, what a pity!
Sunil Grover impresses the most among plenty of T.V actors in the movie, might just help him get good supporting roles in future which would be really nice.
Govind Namdev, Nikitin Dheer and Jaideep Ahlawat are wasted in the movie.
Akshay Kumar is always lovely to watch in action oriented plots with perfect dose of humor, his beard look is pretty good too but I wasn’t pleased with his dialogue delivery that looked more filmy than real, and it didn’t help either that some of those dialogues were Amjad Khan’s famous lines. Yet he lets you survive the film till the end, a statement very common with his movies more often than not.
'Gabbar is Back’ is a movie that has no logic, no romantic plots to emotionally invest in and it entertains in small parts only. Watch if you are a die hard Akshay Kumar fan, else skip it.
Verdict : 1.5/5
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