Bholaa

Bholaa is a reimagined and trailblazing sequel of Kaithi which tries to overdo the theatrics in order to cater the mass audiences. The screenplay, even if it follows the original doesn't elevate during the film thus felt meatless and undercooked. The film definitely has grand, stylized action set pieces, patchy but commendable VFX and adequate emotional quotient which will be appreciated by the masses of single screen. Ajay Devgn's singular performance and striking direction deserves respect but the film never really comes close to Kaithi's raw intensity. Overall, a great family entertaining film if you had skipped the original.

How does it fare as a remake?

Is it worthy of my time?

Will I enjoy it?

I'm willing to bet that the majority of you who are reading this review are searching for similar information, and the answers to your questions will vary greatly depending upon whether or not you have seen the original! If you haven't, this may still work, but I don't believe it will be of much use to those who have.

Why am I saying that? Well, I have already seen and adored 'Kaithi' and the story it intended to tell, but despite having the same narrative, 'Bholaa' turned out to be a major letdown.

Even though I do appreciate Devgn's intention to make some changes to the source material, unfortunately, none of those changes seemed to have a beneficial impact; on the contrary, they destroyed the inherent essence of the tale. The writing here lacked soul and depth, the same qualities that made the original work so well.

The flashbacks failed to make an impression, the inserted humour felt forced, and the action and their choreography, despite bringing some freshness to the table, appeared exaggerated, they were too loud and lousy for my taste.

'Kaithi' was far superior in almost every aspect.

Different storyline but horrible screenplay and worst of all the cheap vfx they used. I mean what was it? A cheap video game made by school students or what?

Screenplay was dragged like anything, movie could've been done in 45 minutes but they dragged it for almost 2 n half hours.

Action scenes were literally inspired by South Indian movies but they use way better vfx. This one felt like intentionally done cheaper to make fun of audiences. Body count am sure in hundreds and all of them were killed by an injured middle age man.

Dialogues were very very cheesy. Felt like bunch of summer students wrote them. Maximum 4 star for this product.

Bholaa even with its shortcomings is good and watchable if you haven't or don't watch original Kaithi but once you watch the original you feel definitely find faults in it.

A Hindi movie without any song which remains with you after the movie is hard to be successful though we have exceptions but there should be something. Many action sequences are good but many other are overrated.

Hindi movies should stop making remakes of south Indian films instead spend on writers and originality of the movie. Tabu looks good in her character and replacing a male lead character of original with female one is a good choice.

I am huge fan of Ajay devgan and Bollywood so such projects really hurts.

Even if this movie would have been a frame to frame copy of original it would have been a lot better.

Whole plot was totally destroyed in the name of improvisation.

Ajay devgns character is shown as a god in the movie, starting action scene, police vehicles are being flung in to air by a truck despite being hurt and hanging out of the police scorpio tabu perfectly manages to hold ray ban intact on her face.

Gajraj rao trying to be a south Indian was no where near in fact it was embarrassing.

Massive talent Deepak Dobriyal was wasted in this movie.

Casting done for this movie was very bad, most of the actors despite being power house of talent could not do much justice to their role.

I feel this movie does grave injustice to original cult "kaithi".

If I were to say something good about this movie it's "tabu" and "sanjay mishra" only.

Original was a gripping movie, here not even a single scene which matches or is even near to the original "kaithi".

I will watch kaithi 10 times more but will not dare to see bholaa again.

I am not against remakes only thing is dont ruin it.