This contain about a fulle drama /action/and stunt movie BAAGHI:TIGER BURNING NOT SO BRIGHT.In a movie include the all original stunts .Tiger Shroff makes his entry into "BAAGHI" doing a finger
stand-upside down, balancing his whole body weight on the forefinger and
the thumb. The young star does pull it off splendidly but finds it
difficult to shoulder the entire protracted, exhausting film on his own.
The makers of BAAGHI - the writer and the director, two separate
but obviously like-minded entities - seem to believe that it is
perfectly all right to rebel against reason, logic and good sense. Two years down the line from Heropanti, Tiger still remains a cub when it comes to acting. For half of the film,he sports an impassive face.
Director: Sabbir khan
Actors: Tiger Shroff Shraddha kapoor,
sudheer Babu
Genre: Romance/Drama/action movie
Run time: 2 hours 30 minutes
er giving a huge break to India’s answer to Bruce Lee, tiger shroff, in Heropanti, Sabbir Khan reunites with his fave star in the romantic actioned, Baaghi. And joining them in the action spectacle is Shraddha Kapoor. Let’s see if the Tiger- Sabbir combo works again for the fan......
Watching an irate but purposeless combatant single-handedly demolish all
his adversaries from kollam to Bangkok is excruciatingly monotonous.
Tiger has the requisite rhythm and flexibility to be an ideal showcase for some graceful, aesthetic stunts but has to be content here with action that is nothing more than boring masala mayhem.
The film hangs on a plot thinner than a strand of hair: Wild, untamed
boy Ronny (Tiger) is sent by his father to a Kalaripayattu guru to get
trained in martial arts. Before you can say “another Karate Kid?”
there’s also a Tezaab inspiration lurking in the background. On the way to the Kalari school, on the train, Ronny meets a girl
Baaghi is a remake of the Tamil film, Mazhai, which itself is
inspired from Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit’s Tezaab. Plus, there are
references to the cult Indonesian action flick Raid: Redemption and Kung
Fu Panda. The film begins with Siya (Shraddha Kapoor), an actress in a
South flick, kidnapped by a business magnate based in Bangkok, Raghav
(Sudheer Babu). As to what business he is doing we have no clue, since
all we see he has a building full of martial artists.
The movie’s
producer hires her ex-lover Rony (Tiger Shroff) to get her back. The
movie moves to flashback where it was love at first sight for Rony when
he meets Siya on a train to Kerala. At the same time, it was also love
at first sight for Raghav as well. Rain also plays an integral role in
advancing Siya and Rony’s love story. But silly misunderstandings, a
conniving father and vengeful villain keep them apart. However all is
right when the hero jets off to Bangkok to rescue his Sita from the
clutches of Raavan!.
The girl remains just a bone of contention between the two, never quite
standing apart and being her own person, just giggling, dancing, playing
with the raindrops and being silly.
Some action sequences are crackling but not awe-inspiring, enthralling
or magical enough. The finale hand-to-hand combat turns funny in the way
it gets seriously scientific. And there’s lots in between that is
nothing more than just randomly strung together scenes. Like playing on
the typical stereotypes of the South — dark, talking in thick accented
Hindi, rolling up the mundu. To balance things out, you have a rough,
rustic and loud Punjabi father (TV star Sunil Grover) too, who wants to
turn his daughter into a South-Indian star. Then in the middle there is
this touristy, picture postcard evocation of Kerala and its boat racing.
There are filler characters on the side, Biswapati Sarkar, the popular
TVF Arnab impersonator, turns hero’s buddy for a while and then just
disappears from the screen for good without an explanation. Sanjay
Mishra and Sumit Gulati, the cabbies in Thailand, are shoved in for a
comic chase on the Bangkok streets to parallel the long, thrilling one
that Ronny is on. The two are nothing more than irritating, only to take
a beating from an even more irritating character, a mute child who
keeps saying ya-ya.
Now, the story for whatever it is worth: a wannabe actress Sia (Shraddha
Kapoor) is abducted by a badly smitten Bangkok fight club owner Raghav
Shetty (Telugu actor Sudheer Babu).
The girl's father P P Khurana (Sunil Grover, hamming unabashedly) who is directing the film aimed at launching Sia's acting career, hires the baaghi of the title, the spurned-in-love Ronny (Tiger Shroff), to rescue his daughter.
The girl's father P P Khurana (Sunil Grover, hamming unabashedly) who is directing the film aimed at launching Sia's acting career, hires the baaghi of the title, the spurned-in-love Ronny (Tiger Shroff), to rescue his daughter.
Low on genuine emotion, Baaghi is only as engaging as a badly designed video game.
The love story is interspersed with flashy martial arts action scenes, but given a male lead who is hard pressed to convince us that he has a genuine grouse against the world, the crass concoction simply does not get off the ground.
The insipid acting all around does not help the cause of this wayward rebel one bit.
Baaghi is eminently avoidable. Keep out of its path.
In these days of nationalistic frenzy, Sabbir Khan throws in a token
dialogue on how the Shaolin School of Martial Arts borrowed from the
Indian martial art forms. One of Raaghav’s long-haired henchmen in
Bangkok runs down the Indian hero by asserting that it’s the Chinese who
really fight well (even while I kept assuming that the fellow was
Thai), only to have the hero knock him off in one stroke and saying:
“China ka maal zyada tikta nahin hai (Chinese goods don’t last for
long).”
Wish the film didn’t last long either. It seemed to just go on and on.
P.S. A question that’s still playing in my head: Dear Tiger, who wears jeans for deep sea diving?
Even with its various flaws, Baaghi is still a treat for the action lovers. Watch the film for its amazing stunts and Tiger Shroff. Boy, he surely rocks!
Rating: out of 5
