Bhaag Johnny

'Bhaag Johnny' rides on a interesting premise, but the execution is plain average. Despite a few thrills & a leading man who delivers, this thriller is shunned down by erratic Writing & unwanted Songs.

'Bhaag Johnny' Synopsis: Johnny is asked by his Screwed boss, to kill an innocent girl. A Genie, however, gives Johnny, the opportunity to live two lives, one being in which he kills the girl & the other in which he doesn't. Chaos follows...

'Bhaag Johnny' doesn't make much use of its promising premise. Once the protagonist starts living both the lives, the excitement & the pacing one expects from the narrative, is mostly missing. However, the action-sequences are expertly done & some sequences, particularly in the film's last half, hold your attention. Also, there are too many songs in the goings-on, which honestly, add nothing to the story. They needed to be chopped off!

The Screenplay is exciting, but in parts. Stronger Writing was needed here! Shivam Nair's Direction is alright. Cinematography captures the exotic locales of Thailand, nicely. Editing needed to be crisper. Music by Various Artists is good, but in the film, they appear forced.

Performance-Wise: Kunal Khemu is a terrific actor & he pitches in a dependable performance, yet again! As Johnny, the torn protagonist, the actor expresses naturally & excels in the action bits. Zoa Morani is barely convincing. Mandana Karimi, (Who's in Bigg Boss now), is ordinary. Manasi Scott shines as the vamp. Mukul Dev is wasted. Ditto for Vikram Bhatt.

On the whole, 'Bhaag Johnny' utilizes only half of its potential.

Its new story for Indian movie... Few songs could have been avoided for making it better. Over all its good one time watch for sure. I am surprised this movie failed to register at box-office. Its definitely one of the better movies release in calendar year. Not at all bad, how some other reviewers gave less than 5 star, it actually deserves 7 average, but giving 9 just to compensate the scale... Its movie you will choose without expectation, and you don't regret the time you invested in it for entertainment. Acting : 7/10 (most of crew did justice, not extra-ordinary but convincing). Story: 9/10 (this is unexpected surprise from the movie, which you will be expecting ordinary and it comes with extra-ordinary stuff). Direction: 6/10 (not bad, not excellent). Action : 8/10 (better for low budget film).

This movie could have been narrated better by better direction and screenplay. Let's start with why did not people go in the theater to watch it, in order of high-low factors.

1)Bad Marketing - Movie was marketed as if it was the story of a Casanova.

2)Wrong choice of actresses - Three girls who play their roles in the story did not know how to act.

3)Bad Direction - Poor direction. It could have improved at particular parts and improve the film.

4)Unnecessary songs - Songs look forced, especially "Iss Qadar Pyaar Hai" which were added for marketing purposes.

Things which were good in the movie.

1)The story.

2)Kunal Khemu's acting, action, expressions, clothes, hair.

First of all, credits to the writers for introducing a new concept into Bollywood that has been off late been reworking on some done to death concepts, so good job there. The concept is about Johnny (Kunal Khemu) given an opportunity by a Genie (i'll come back to this later) to live two lives, where he has to see which life would be better, the one where he kills the girl or the one where he saves her from his boss's goons and at the end Johnny and we audience are left to decide which life he should choose.

The concept as i said is good but you know this story could have been way better if the incidents happening in both lives were very close to one another ( example - if the story was to give us and johnny to decide between wrong and a more wrong it would have been absolutely sick AF) making it difficult for johnny to choose which life to continue with. At the end you will realize it becomes very easy for us audience to guess which life Johnny would choose cuz it is choosing between good side and a bad side. At that moment, you will realize that the story is nothing but some story straight out of your 5th class Moral Science book but with action added in it. In other words, the story is very predictable.

Most of the scenes in this film have a half-baked treatment, some feel cringy like Johnny and Rachael escaping on a bike when out of nowhere a love song starts playing. Also, that Genie (played by our horror man Vikram Bhatt) kinda looked cringy to me but i also cant see how this concept of two lives could have been introduced without the presence of some God like stuff.

Kunal Khemu was the only thing i liked about this film. The female leads have nothing much to do other than just run around with Johnny.

Overall, story is very average and predictable, concept is great and more films should be made like this with a more difficult choice to make at the end , and okok execution.

The storyline of this movie is not much interesting. Their acting is superb. The story should be more improved