Munna Michael

He cant dance.

Theres no rythm, no delivery, no passion or attitude. Just throw as many moves out per second according to choreographers instructions. Its monotonous, cringey and actually pretty jarring to watch.

Next Gen Films and Eros International's Munna Micheal (U/A) directed by Sabbir Khan, is story about Munna, a dancer who is inspired by Micheal Jackson.

Micheal (Ronit Roy) is a dancer who is inspired by Micheal Jackson. He finds a child on the streets and decides to take him home. He names that child Munna. Years later Munna (Tiger Shroff) grows up and becomes a dancer who is also inspired by Micheal Jackson. One day Munna gets into a fight with a gang. He beats up all of them. After which Munna is being brought to Mahinder Fauji (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) as he fought with his men. Mahinder learns that Munna is a good dancer and and decides to hire him as a dance teacher. After a few days, Mahinder learns dancing and reveals to Munna that he learned dancing so that he could impress his crush i.e. Deepika Sharma a.k.a Dolly (Nidhhi Agerwal), a dancer in a club. After a few meetings, Munna is attracted to Dolly but never confronts about it. The rest forms the crux of the story.

The script of this film is penned by Vimmi Datta and it's so boring and stereotype that one can easily predict the whole story of this film after watching the first act. There are some dialogues that are mass appealing but a script can't stand film only with cheesy dialogues and punchlines. There are so many scenes in this film that irritate the audience instead of entertaining them. Thus, the script is the major demerit of this film.

Tiger Shroff's performance could've been better. Apart from acting, his stunts and mind-blowing dance will amuse the audience till the end of the film. The role of Dolly is played by Nidhhi Agerwal and she fails to shine well in her debut. Because of the dull screenplay she gets unnoticed in the film. Nawazuddin Siddiqui is okay as Mahinder. This may be the only film where doesn't play his role well. His performance is comprehensively ineffective, but a few jokes make it up to passing marks. The rest of the cast barely fit the bill.

Sabbir Khan's direction is completely average. His narrative style is slow and annoying. Cinematography by Hari K. Vedantam is beautiful, I wonder how he must have shot those scenes wherein Shroff dances and performs stunts. Editing by Manan Sagar is nice. "Main Hoon" and "Ding Dang" are hit musical numbers.

On the whole, Munna Micheal is a losing fare. It's a film which will only appeal to Tiger Shroff fans and a thin section of the mass audience who love watching action-dance films. In terms of box office, it may prove to be an average fare as films like Lipstick Under My Burkha and Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk will gather the class audience and also a huge chunk of masses.

#MunnaMichael is another film which sets out to prove that Tiger is very good in dance n fight sequences. He does full justice to his role but is let down by a weak n obsolete script and haphazard direction. Nawazuddin, as always, is dependable n looks like he enjoys dancing. There is a love triangle too, but thankfully, this issue is sorted out amicably. Very good to see Ronit Roy in a positive role, he should be seen more often on the big screen. The heroine is supposed to be a dance expert, but her moves do not substantiate this. The music is average. Rating 2/5.

The film is totally full with Dance, Action, Romance. But it's story is too simple.

• Tubelight - Half Girlfriend - Raabta - Noor

These are films which have singlehandedly disgraced and disrespected Bollywood to a whole new level. Congratulations Munna Michael, you've finally managed to fit your film in that particular category.

The plot is too cringe-worthy for explanation so don't ask for it and I'll just go straight to the review.

Quite frankly, this movie was pathetic in terms of acting, storytelling, and visuals in some way.

Sabbir Khan has been doing shitty films throughout his career especially the ones which star Tiger Shroff. The screenplay is satisfactorily too slow-paced and too crass to make it looks like a dance film.

The acting gave me the feeling of throwing a huge boulder to break the screen and I am willing to go through the consequences later on.

We all love Tiger Shroff for his slick dance moves and gripping action sequences but one flaw is that he can't act.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui was somebody I just didn't like seeing on screen. He was good in Raees and Raman Raghav 2.0 but in this film he just couldn't fit the part as a gangster only for this film.

Niddhi Agarwal has potential but she is better off with a well experienced star.

Overall, I don't intend to do a full review so all I want to say Munna Michael is a crappy disaster.

1.5/5- Go Home, Shroff