Movie: Himmatwala
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Tamannaah, Mahesh Manjrekar, Paresh Rawal
Direction: Sajid Khan
Rating: **
Well after watching Himmatwala, it feels that director Sajid Khan could not make up his mind if he would like to create comedy masala or to recreate the gloom of 1980. The film thus hangs in a uncertain balance undecided between the two extremes.
Ravi (Ajay Devgn) is a street fighter who finds that his mother (already lost her husband) and sister are in terrible channel in his native village. He returns to Ramnagar to revenge the death of his father and seek justice for the people of his village. Sher Singh’s (Mahesh Manjrekar) daughter is equally spoiled and walks around the village in very small dresses, brandishing a whip. The spoiled brat soon falls for Himmatwala Ravi and is then swishing around in salwar-kameez plotting her father’s downfall.
The dialogues looks doesn’t have the desired impact, the action sequences look like following almost Rohit Shetty style and the humour falls flat quite often. Even Ajay realizes that his jokes are not that funny and even mentions it more than once in the film.
What works for the film is basically Ajay who seems completely impressed with the flim script. It’s as if his presence is enough to make the film a Rs 100 crore enterprise. Tamannaah looks good and shows enough taintless skin in the ‘Tathaiya Tathaiya’ and ‘Taki Taki’ song, to ensure they will become the most popular songs of the year.
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