Baaghi Review

 

If you look back at the previous film of Tiger Shroff, ‘Heropanti’, then you might be shocked that the strengths and weakness are the same in both the films. Too many flying kicks and repetitive dialogues and too less justification of the spark between lovers and yes, both are rip-offs.

Raghav (Sudheer Babu) is the Ravana of this modern version of ‘Ramayana’ and a don who manages fight clubs and also supports political parties because of which no one would touch him. He kidnaps Sia (Shradhha Kapoor) who is an actress in Telegu industry. Sia’s father asks the Producer of Sia’s film to approach Ronny (Tiger Shroff) for help because of the old love angle between Ronny and Sia which was shattered because of misunderstandings. Ronny flies to Raghav’s den in Bangkok while flashbacks arrive at intervals.

The director Sabbir Khan was also the director of ‘Heropanti’ and ‘Baaghi’ clearly shows that because the two things that were best about ‘Heropanti’ are equally best about ‘Baaghi’ although the actress is less impressive in ‘Baaghi’. The two things were the songs and action sequences and as Tiger is in the film then dance is ought to be impressive. The action scenes are the strongest reason why this film is watchable, but too many flying kicks might frustrate or even bore a bit. The camera-work in those action scenes is the one which adds charm to the execution and hard work of Tiger and the crew. It will surely appeal to the masses.

But the main point where the film lacks in building up the emotions or scenes where the audience won’t feel like ‘How did they fall in love suddenly’? Right from the scene where they both meet each other for the first time, it seems like they know each other for a long time and that is not what the story is. Moreover how did she convince her dad suddenly to run away when her dad was purely money-minded? Plenty of plot-holes here and there and the film start to question the sanity of the storyline.

The acting is something which really holds up a ‘masala’ film but here the two leads falter a lot. Shraddha Kapoor goes over-sugary at times and the corny dialogues about ‘Naino se band chalana’ and all seems too artificial and pseudo. She impresses in songs and surprisingly in action too. Sudheer Babu is a villain with cute & shiny eyes and lives up to the level of Tiger’s action. Sunil Grover and Sanjay Mishra are the ones who lift up the humour every time they arrive; such talented actors they are that they bring relief to the audience with their arrival. Tiger Shroff is hard-working but only abs and muscles aren’t the parameters of a good actor, those are for models but here he needs to work on body language and most importantly, expressions. The same problem he had in ‘Heropanti’ too, the dialogues are good at times but when he says, they look dramatic and not good.

Dialogues were repetitive to the core, again and again Shraddha and Tiger said same dialogues but some dialogues like the ‘You have to run in order to survive, no matter that you a deer or a lion’ and even some hilarious comebacks by Sunil were worthy of claps.

In all, the background score – good, dance and songs – good, action – good, but a little bit mindful writing and this could have been a must watch but still it is a complete paisa-wasool!