Shehzada

AVPL i heard was a film that itself was very average but was elevated solely by Allu Arjun 's swaggy performance and terrific songs including my and everyone's favourite Butta Bola.

So when you decide to remake an average film , you need someone to elevate it to be a good entertaining watch. Sadly , Kartik is not any Allu Arjun. Kartik is charming no doubt but Allu Arjun possess charm and swag (something that in the early last decade Salman bhai possessed), and this swag Kartik doesn't posses to carry mass entertainer .

You can easily see he does the bulk of the heavy lifting in this film. He's smiling almost the whole film and trying to deliver dialogues in his Kartik aaryan style but the thing is, the dialogues are so ordinary (written by the same man who wrote the cringy dialogues of Brahmastra) that none of them impress or leave any impact on you, except maybe a few.

Because of such poor dialogues, comedy mostly is a miss. Because of such poor comedy , actors like Paresh Rawal or Rajpal Yadav (in a cameo shorter than the bidi Kartik smokes) who once used to make us go ROFL with their presence can't do anything in this film.

Actors like Ronit Roy are wasted yet again. Manisha Koirala is okayish but gets very little screen space. Kriti Sanon, ummmm, was she even there in the film? Idk man i forgot lol her role is so forgettable and turns out to be that typical souvenir kind of role .

Action and it's style is very much a miss. I have seen glimpses of AVPL mass action scenes and the swag with which Allu executed them won the hearts of fans. Kartik can't do action at all. Why do makers want to show him in this avatar is going over my head. His mass scenes are totally off. The climax action sequence in the metro hanger is so forgettable (i don't even know what the climax in AVPL was, must be better than this atleast).

Songs. Felt like an umbrella pierced into my heart (get it?). Forget Butta boma, that's out of reach, not even one song of Shehzada is one percent close to any song from AVPL. And all these ordinary tracks are coming from the magical composer Pritam. Hard to swallow truth. Remember last year how AR Rahman composed songs for a film like Heropanti 2 and all were flop. Even the character dheela rehash version is such a pain to the ears. They aren't paying tribute to Salman, they are paying tribute to remakes with this remake song from own Bollywood industry.

Some good parts are there though , especially in the emotional scenes in the 2nd half and this where Kartik genuinely shines. Women objectification , which is a norm in Telugu films and present even in AVPL has been removed here and that's very good.

Overall, this is the 3rd film i have seen from Rohit Dhawan and he again makes an average film. Even to some extent Dishoom was better . I know i shouldn't say this but often when you see Kartik trying to give dialogues in a swaggy way, i feel he's trying to imitate Varun Dhawan and i felt VD could have been a slightly better choice cuz he posses that swag that Kartik is not having.

Watch it on ott rather!

Gave 2 starts because 1 for Kriti's beautiful screen presence and another star for Kartik. I feel this movie was not required and the fake emotions were pretty blatant. The screenplay and direction was very bad. The underutilisation of so many talented actors was sad to see. The emotional scenes were not emotional at all and the comic scenes were just bad. Rajpal Yadav did create some good humour but he was only there for 1 scene. Overall the whole movie was jumping from scene to scene, many plot loopholes. In some places the story just doesn't connect and feels random. It's sad to see Kartik being associated with it. Hope he does choose a better movie next time.

First of the film is exact copy of ally Arjun film I mean y u doing this r u out of any original ideas second the original movies watched by all people across the india in all languages it was available free in YouTube secondly I don't see an power pump dialogs in movie seems an whole lot of energy is missing kiriti does an ok job same to kartik he try to bring as much as he can but in the end it's a remake so can expect much paresh raval did an good job I like his performance but overall there is nothing new nothing interesting to keep audience hook also if this movie dosnt do good just stop this remake tend it's like this movie was here 4 years now let's make a remake.

It's terrible remake. The telegu version of this movie had more production value so not sure why the hell will people want to watch a cheap copy. There has to be something wrong with IMDB to show stupid people giving 10 ratings. Kartik Aryan is an avg actor and its a below average movie. Don't waste ur time. Jokes are pure cringe, karthik looks like a joker while doing action. You will laugh during action and cry during jokes. Bollywood never learns even after a thunderous hit. The south version had iconic songs and dance where as you won't feel like listening to the songs of this movies and the choreography is just pathetic to say the least.

What' nice?

Manisha koirala, paresh rawal, Ronit Roy, That'all.

What's not?

Karthik Aryan is a lot of things But he's no Allu Arjun, he's no match to the style, swag and sass of allu, Kriti sanon is annoying and unbearable, her worst performance till date, the only reason I watched this despite having watched "Ala vaikuntapuramuloo" is because I liked them in Luka chuppi, I was thoroughly disappointed Songs are extremely bad and forgettable.

David Dhawan should definitely stop with remakes and try something different for once, If you thought coolie number 1 was his worst work till date, shehzaada has done the impossible it clearly beats cn1 to be david's worst work.