Zanjeer Movie Review

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Movie: Zanjeer
Critic's Rating: 3/5
Cast: Ram Charan, Sanjay Dutt, Priyanka Chopra
Direction: Apoorva Lakhia
Genre: Action
Release Date:06-09-2013
Duration: 2 hours 17 minutes

Story:

A stale tale, the story is about the tough and honest cop Vijay Khanna (charan) who gets transferred to Mumbai after 22 transfers. Here he comes across Mala (priyanka) who is a witness to a murder. The duty of protecting her gets Vijay to clash against oil mafia don Teja (Prakash Raj). In this process, Vijay also makes friends with Sher Khan (sanjay dutt) and noted journalist Jayadev (atul kulkarni). How he tames Teja and puts a check on the oil mafia forms the rest of the story.

Ram Charan Teja with his robotic expressions does well in flaunting his penchant at robust action. He doesn’t romance too well and that’s fine. In times when gravity defying stunt based films are dominating, Teja can smoothly fit into the likes of Dabanggs and more.

Performances:

Priyanka Chopra leaves me sad as the actress settles as a mere arm candy for an actor. She is a storehouse of caliber and it’s a shame she is letting all that remain unused.

Sanjay Dutt is the only eye catching casting as he fits quite well as Sher Khan. But there is a very little screen space for him to enhance his character any further.

After working in every possible masala entertainer in the last few years, Prakash Raj has created his own niche at villain’s buffoonery. Indeed a master at the same, the actor again is letting his talent dissipate into nothingness by compromising for roles like such.

Atul Kulkarni is great as the aggressive crime reporter who takes on a duel with the ACP initially, only to realize his worth later. An actor par excellence, he is great in his role.

Mahie Gill should watch her film Dev D again as she is clearly suffering from amnesia. There can be no other reason why she agreed to be Mona! The tinge of derogation is deliberate!

Technical Departments:

Apoorva Lakhia’s direction is sleek and packaged swankily but has an unforgivably tedious and long film which cannot evoke any applause despite the evident toiling. Made on every possible staple pedigree available for use currently, the film has an upright hero, a satanic villain, a naïve heroine in love, thunderous action and sleazy item number ala Munni and Sheila.

He is careful in referring vehemently to the original, but loses himself in the myriad plots and sub plots he weaves. Vijay destroys the oil mafia’s most crucial point with so much ease that it is surprising how Lakhia does the tricky bits almost with inexperience. The editing is sketchy which treads into tiresome length. The music is extraordinarily ordinary and only the background score with the tunes of Raghupati Raghav is hummable.

Analysis:

The film happens to be the remake of the yesteryears cult hit starring Amitabh Bachchan and Pran  and it also marks the debut of Ram Charan in Bollywood. But given the hype and expectation, the film is nowhere near meeting. Mainly, the plot was tepid and the execution was not that gripping. The first half goes about with regular elements of action, some romance while the second half continues the same thing. Overall, this is a film which has nothing great except some branded stars. At the box office, the film doesn’t have the strength to score a hit.

Final Word: The film happens to be the remake of the yesteryears cult hit starring Amitabh Bachchan and Pran  and it also marks the debut of Ram Charan in Bollywood. But given the hype and expectation, the film is nowhere near meeting. Mainly, the plot was tepid and the execution was not that gripping. The first half goes about with regular elements of action, some romance while the second half continues the same thing. Overall, this is a film which has nothing great except some branded stars. At the box office, the film doesn’t have the strength to score a hit.