Stalk Home Syndrome
Film:
Hero
Cast:
Sooraj Pancholi, Athiya Shetty,Tigmanshu Dhulia, Aditya Pancholi
Directed
by: Nikhil Advani
Duration:
2 hrs 10 mins
Rating:
* *
Hero is a remake of the super hit
Subhash Ghai which launched the career of Jackie Shroff and made Meenakshi
Sheshadri popular. It was also the last enjoyable film made by the director who
was once dubbed as the showman.
Now apart from launching new ‘stars’ these
remakes actually serve no purpose. To begin with, the filmmakers don’t have
enough grounds to believe that they will better or even come close matching the
original. So if that is the case, why
bother in the first place? From the marketing perspective, it helps that Salman
Khan is associated with it but that doesn’t contribute to the film itself.
The story if you haven’t seen the
original is about Sooraj (Sooraj Pancholi) a goon is the one of the most
threatening name in town – his grand entry looks like a fitness demo and pity
that he looks as if he is still in college and appears least bit intimidating.
He even manages to beat a rather bulky man who is about a foot taller than him
to pulp.
Aditya Pancholi plays Pasha, a
criminal who is in jail and unless the top cop (Tigmanshu Dhulia) relents, he
might be there for a long time. So the goon comes up with the grand plan to
kidnapping the cop’s daughter Radha (Athiya Shetty) and no prizes for guessing
that Sooraj is entrusted with the job.
Just to make sure that we don’t
mistake the young man for an ordinary thug, he is also shown giving
instructions to his friends and partners in crime to distribute money among the
needy.
Radha mistakes her kidnapping as a
security measure and during their stay in the snow capped mountains, cupid
strikes. And so do the oddities. For a
girl who can’t resist one of the most the dreadful phenomenon known to mankind
in the 21st century, also known as selfies, she lives without a phone without too many qualms about it.
In the initial bits, you can at least
sit through it because the the story is getting established. The slide as the
film progresses is very rapid and even though this is not a long film by
conventional standards, it gets all too tedious with the introduction of a prospective beau for Radha.
There is not effort to re-tell the
story in a different fashion – on the contrary there is a significant intent to
play to the gallery. There are so many shots in slow motion which increases the
running length of the film. Plus there are countless pointless songs since the
plot gets stagnant at some point.
Tigmanshu Dhulia and Sharad Kelkar as
the father and brother are serviceable. The new lead pair is miscast,
especially Sooraj Pancholi. The braqwn is fine but at best, he appears more
like supporting character material while Athiya is passable – neither
commendable nor condemnable.
Hero ultimately belongs to the
also-ran category.
Published in The Navhind Times on 13th Sept. 2015
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