Dabangg Review

Lucky you Salman for enjoying the best festival season of Bollywood solely. His new venture Dabangg meaning “Fearless” went on to become biggest grosser for a weekend crossing the “3 Idiots". Movie is directed by debut-ant Abhinav Kashyap and is Salman's home production.

Let’s take a quick look whether it is really worth it and would create history going further…

Chulbul kaa Kahaani :

Dabangg is story of Chulbul pandey aka (he fondly calls himself) Robinhood Pandey , a fearless police officer. He is not a typical Bollywood honest cop but has his own style of setting things right. He hates his step father(Vinod Khanna) and step brother(Arbaaz) just as much he loves his mother(Dimple Kapadia) . At the same time his heart skips beat when he sees Rajo(Sonakshi).

Loved the Trailer…But

Hmmm…frankly it was tempting trailers and tapping music that dragged me to the theatres. Salman beating bad guys and wooing his lady love…and he beats and then woos..And then beats and then…sorry am I repetitive…but that’s what you find on screen and finish half the movie by the way .

Yes things just don’t move for the god’s sake. We never feel convinced at all why Salman is so indifferent to his family to an extent that he marries his love in the arrangements made for his brother.

One might love the songs irrespective of Salman’s so-so dance moves but need to bear the loud fights with piercing bullets in frequent intervals. All the dull characters wake up with us in last half hour and then a predicted family drama leads to much lengthier fight.

Performances

Salman, the long lasting bachelor khan of Bollywood is the heart of this chick flick. His knocking punches …spontaneous dialogues made the audience and of course his fans cheer for a while. The role of Chulbul pandey is just tailor made for him. Nevertheless he is losing the charm he carried so far.

Sonakshi Sinha…daughter of Satrugna sinha had her dream debut with her favorite co-star. She has lovely screen appearance thanks to her “Mast Mast..Do nain”…no doubt they steal our hearts…But her character is dumber on screen.

Dimple Kapadia is very dearer. We just miss her in the midway. Vinod Khanna is good enough. No complaints on Arbaaz khan either.

Sonu Sood as cheddi Singh is perfect bad boy of the movie for he looked hunkier than the Salman himself…

Mahesh manjrekar as heroine’s father, Ompuri as other cop are passable.

Songs and Salman!!

Songs are at the top of all No doubt. “Tere Mast Mast..Do nain” “Sachi Sachi tere nazarein ek darpan” are nice to hear and are simply great on screen…

Then there is Malaika’s song “Munni badnaam hui..darling tere liye..” that wakes you up and shakes your foot.

Then we have some one-liners from Salman…in a fashion “araam jadey se yaad aagaya..aap key aadarneey pitaji kaisey hai” . His dance moves for the ring tones of the goons, his hatke se walking style and his not so great but ok-ok dance moves all contribute to the cheers we have.

Final say…

Though the movie enjoyed the best weekend ever…it is no way gonna carry the success so long.

Peppy songs and the stunning statistics might drive you to the theatres, prepare yourself for a typical Amitab’s 80’s entertainer…and a whole barrel of red color (bloodshed) along with tons of noisy encounters.

Rating:

2.5/5