dineshprakash

Personally I feel that director should arrange a press conference and describes the why and how of incidents happened on screen in film. It is irritating collaboration of copied visuals because you do know that it is happening just for makers whims and fancies. For example, Police barricade to nab Hero. He comes as if he was damn sure of his escape, he gives throttle of his bike, screeching shots of bike tyre, then Police SUVs start colliding to each other, and after few fist fight, Hero lands with Inspector in a dense forest which was villain den!!! Villain must have decided to make his den in forest not for safety reason but for scenic beauty of film as Hero destroys it like anything. Epitome of convenience. It is not a love story because love remained in Director mind only. Posters and trailer were many fold better than movie. Army Captain (Hero) beats Police Inspector and constables in Police Station, like he is himself a goon and gets behind lockup finally. Army chief miraculously gets information about his arrest and arranges for his release but when Captain suddenly decides not to join the army even after order for the same, but go for finding someone, Army chief even didn't bother to know the reason behind his absence. Movie is full of illogical stuffs. Main plot is kidnapping of a kid. A person himself hates someone and wants to get rid of that but another person blackmails him for making hostage of that thing!! Performance wise Tiger Shorff has grown up but still not easy to hold high octane emotional and anger scenes. Manoj Bajpeyi, a fine actor but somehow looks reluctant to perform. Randeep Hooda is fine. Rest are just for sake of being there.

Main female lead is born with a condition which forces her to hiccup or stammer or something between both. There is not any strong reason for her desperate desire to be a teacher while she is easily offered job in a bank. Her hiccups are plain annoying and clearly not fit for any profession where good speaking would be must. An upper class English medium school is not ready to accept slum kids, who are pushed over to them by Government, due to right to education act to study. Characterization of these kids are so cheesy, like they have shown in there very first scene, as drinking country liquor, smoking, gambling with playing card in school, because they belong to slum!? Then why they are not stopping to go to school is not clear, even how did they reach ninth standard when they were not a bit interested in study!? Why did school administration not rusticate them in beginning even being aware of their budding criminal like activities in school, when they could have do so as they decide to do in pre climax!? It seems that only a single teacher is taking class of all subjects of ninth standard!? If you are unable to understand science and math of ninth standard then you won't get the point of few scenes. Performance wise Rani Mukherjee is sincere, looks beautiful but fails to impress except in the scene where she breaks down. Harsh Mayer, who played student Atish, performed like a seasoned actor. Shivkumar Subramanium as Pricipal is very good. Neeraj Kabi as antagonist teacher is first rate. Title track music is so soothing and melodious.

Director Mr. Rajkumar Gupta work is good. Story, screenplay and dialogues by Ritesh Shah are good. He has induced humour in very subtle and realistic way. Characterization is shaky. Male protagonist is established in very beginning of film that he strictly follows rule even it is routine and civil but he breaks major raid rule deliberately by allowing main antagonist to leave the house while raid is going on. Perhaps, he does it just for interval shake and second half drama otherwise there wouldn't be any second half. Film claims that it is based on true incidents and tries to follow this line but when gold bars starts pouring from false ceiling after a gunshot looks to flimsy. Even Hero repeats it, who was established as smart enough to dig out black money from all raids but he overlooked so simple false ceiling to even check it. There is a smart scene which established Villain brutality in very subtle but effective way, when he forcefully tries to feed his mother, whom he was shown taking care off. This whole raid was based on a tip off so confrontation between antagonist and protagonist does not intrigues much as you are sure about finding of hidden black assets. There was tension just about to build up then the tip off again made is so simple and convenient. Performance wise Shaurabh Shukla as antagonist Rajeshwar Singh is mind blowing. Without any typical villain scene he makes you believe that he is brutal, cunning and merciless. Ajay Devgan as Amay Patnayek is first rate in his comfort zone. Ileana D'Cruz looks pretty and acts well too. Actor, who played IT officer Lalan is very good. Rest are ok.