BAAGHI 2 (2018)
Directed by: Ahmed Khan
Rather than following his father’s footsteps young actor Tiger Shroff is on a mission to portray roles that are s combination of Hrithik Roshan and Salman Khan ! The rate at which he’s either shaking a leg or flexing his biceps is enough evidence of his Hero worship.
The predictable plot here starts with an Army Man Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) summoned by his ex flame Neha (Disha Patani) to track down her missing daughter who she claims has been kidnapped. Everyone including her neighbors and husband Shekhar (Darshan Kumar) claim they never had a daughter and the existence of the missing girl is disputed. Enter the cops, a plethora of muscle flexing, drug abusing or cigar smoking villains and the plot is thickened in order to give the hero enough reason to bash down the baddies and unravel the mystery.
The plot is not only confusing and misleading but the way the director has approached the story is highly questionable of his directorial abilities. If it’s a mystery then he suddenly shifts gear to action and when the plot takes high speed he’s reversed it suddenly to stale romance. Overall the film doesn’t qualify for any particular genre unless the director deliberately wanted it to be a mixed bag of sorts.
Technically it is only the action department that impresses specially the extended climax that takes the cake here. The screenplay and story lack charm and music is highly uninspiring. Whoever thought of remixing and restructuring an classic like Ek Do Teen needs to be severely punished.
Tiger Shroff hogs the limelight and deserves applause for a very sincere performance even though his acting skills ain’t anything to rave about he makes up for that limitation by performing superficially in his stunts, it’s great to watch someone slipping easily into an Indian Rambo avatar. Whatever appealed to serious actors like Manoj Bajpaye and Randeep Hooda to play these roles, they just do not impress. Pratik Babbar is a total disaster as the goan drug addict.
Only Deepak Dobriyal manages to perform efficiently amongst the supporting cast and leaves an impression. Ashwin Kaushal, Darshan Kumar, Vipin Sharma, Gauhar Khan are all listless. Pencil thin Disha Patani has painstakingly dead expressions and can make even Nargis Fakhri or Siddharth Malhotra look like Oscar winners, she is irritatingly disastrous. The gorgeous Jacqueline Fernandez is unfortunately wasted in a bad song.
The director tries hard, very very hard to infuse emotions into this plot. Unfortunately some of these emotional scenes turn into jokes considering you have really bad actors like Patani or Babbar enacting them on screen. If only the director had tried to focus on the movie by streamlining it into a particular genre like say either a suspense thriller or an action drama then maybe the end result would have been better.
Overall an average Action cum Suspense cum Emotional roller coaster ride which is watcheable only for the stunts performed by the lead actor.
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