Brand Of
Brothers
Film: Gabbar
Is Back
Cast: Akshay
Kumar, Shruti Hassan
Directed by:
Krish
Duration: 2
hrs 20 mins
Rating: * 1
/ 2
A remake of
the Tamil hit Ramana (2002), Gabbar is Back is a travesty of a film.
Why they bothered to do a remake remains a mystery because there is very little
going for it. How many flops will it take till producers realize that the South
Indian action films don’t quite work in Bollywood?
Directed by Radhakrishna
Jagarlamudi aka Krish, you
don’t know if you should laugh or bang your head against the ground while
watching the inane proceedings. Sample this – a young lady stops a car so that
she help a pregnant lady get to the hospital. The water breaks on the way and a
very healthy baby is instantly delivered in the car itself. On reaching the
hospital, the young lady (we learn that she is a lawyer, not a doctor) tells
the nurse “Maine umbilical cord Swiss army knife se cut kar diya…” (I cut the
umbilical cord using a Swiss army knife).
This was of
course mildly better than the heart surgery performed by Vijaykanth using the
light from mobile phones, in the original.
But the
story is here about Gabbar (Akshay Kumar) who is hell bent on making corrupt
officials pay for their sins. To the world, he is just a lecturer but behind
the scenes, he runs a different show altogether with the help up some
enthusiastic men and women. They kidnap corrupt officials, release most of them
but the odd one is hanged. Reminded me of Amitabh Bachchan’s Shahenshah when he
drags the culprit and says “Shahenshah
jahan khade ho jaate hai ... wahin darbar lag jaate hai” and decides the
fate criminal.
That film
also had a similar story of a police officer who turns into a vigilante – and
it was so much more fun with some memorable lines.
But no such
luck with Gabbar. Shruti Hassan fills the mandatory glamour quotient and
Kareena Kapoor is seen in a cameo that is best forgotten. Meanwhile the police
are trying to hunt for Gabbar, a police driver (Sunil Grover) cracks the
mystery like a Sherlock Holmes but is chided by his seniors.
And then
there is the main villain, Digvijay Patil (Suman Talwar) who constantly keeps
on harping that is he is a bigger ‘Brand’
Gabbar eventually gets to prove that he is a bigger brand than the guy
who claims to be the bigger brand.
There is no
subtlety whatsoever in conveying the message everything is hammered and
hammered hard. The background music is ear drum shattering and the dialogues
are cringe worthy.
Not quite
sure which was more embarrassing - Shurti Hassan’s character or her acting.
Akshay Kumar tries his best to provide a silver lining but the cloud is as dark
as a black hole.
Published in The Navhind Times on 3rd May 2015
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