Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3

Total bhassam film. No acting, no script, Sanjay dutt is now a closed chapter for doing such roles, it had to be a vulnerable character like Irffan and Hooda earlier,

Everything thar was a major part of 1 & 2 was not present in the third installment of the series. Plot was loose, acting was ok, no high or low points in the movie and lots of Unnessary scenes.

I was expecting SBG3 to be a complete turd, and only went because a friend insisted on us seeing it. There are occasionally interesting moments, mainly because of the returning actors - Jimmy Shergill and Mahie Gill - who are comfortable in their roles even if by now the characters have become cardboard conspirators instead of the more nuanced personas of the first film. These are mixed with heaped helpings of non-sequitur and unintentional hilarity. Sanjay Dutt looks like age, plus a lifetime of booze and hedonistic living have addled his brain to the point he has a perennial slur (or perhaps he was drunk throughout the shoot). Chitrangada Singh is seen as a second-fiddle nautch girl character whose accent suggests she studied her mujra craft at Cambridge, or perhaps Yale. Other characters come and go with less-than-basic regard to continuity and coherence, like no one thought to do a second draft on the script or perhaps even wrote it up as they shot on set.

Apart from the leads, the film's casting seems to have been decided based on a "Kahan gaye woh log?" Bollywood trivia quiz so you have appearances from Kabir Bedi, Nafisa Ali and Deepak-fricking-Tijori.

The first Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster was brilliant. The second was mediocre, all handled by Irfan Khan. The third film is lost. Its the worst. There is no structure. Its as if the writer has hap-hazardously written something in one night like a college assignment just for the sake of doing it.

The characters have lost their core. Jimmy Shergill and Mahi Gill have given good performances but there is hardly anything in the story. Jimmy's character has downgraded, become a bit dumb. Gill's character, well even the writer does not know what she really wants. Chitrangana (known to do selective films) plays a useless character for the first time in her career. Absolutely zero contribution to the story (whatever it is). Sanjay Dutt is mediocre, let down by the story. And there is Soha Ali Khan also. I am out of words for her character.

The screenplay is lackluster. You actually see people in the theatre checking their phones. Even I did (which I never do). The music is terrible. All songs are bad. Thanks for having just 2 songs. This is the classic Bollywood example of adding songs for no reason.

The main culprit of the movie is Tigmanshu Dhulia. We expect decent content from him. But he is the one who has underdelivered. The writing, the direction is boring. It looks as if he just made the movie hastily or just for the sake of making it or for Sanjay Dutt. He has wasted some good actors, and most importantly a good franchise. Well, not as bad as Remo did for Race!

My rating stands at 6/10- 2 out of 5 for the 1st half & hour and 4 out of 5 for the last 30 minutes. From no-sense story to hopeless direction the movie has no spark at all. What makes it more worse is the comparison with previous 2 instalments of this masterpiece series.

The movie begins with trying hard to tie knots with the story but fails miserably with addition of Sanjay Dutt to the movie. The gangster in previous parts exceeded all our expectations with shady roles but Sanjay Dutt has no dark part or any hidden secret to join Saheb or Biwi in the movie. The director maybe became nervous on handling a commercial actor & thus didn't put his 100% efforts. Jimmy Shergill tried hard but has roughly a screen appearance of 25-30 minutes with no impactful character in the movie. Mahi Gill on other hand has all the focus this time but is led down by poor story & no connection with gangster like previous parts. Chitrangda Singh has no significant character in the story & is just used to fill screen time to increase the duration of movie to 2 hours.

The location have been chosen well but cinematography has led down the positives. During movie screenplay also lacks creativity, with poor shot of camera angles & weak dialogues. Music is another led down factor with not even one song to leave with you after the theatre. There is no revenge or no hidden fire in the whole movie. You will be caught in boredom as the movie progresses until the last Half hour shows some potential.

Don't expect much from the movie, this part has just been made to take the story further to the 4th instalment in the series. If you have some time to kill or undying loyalty for 'Saheb Biwi Gangster' series than you are more then welcome to ride a journey of setbacks & boredom.