Baaghi (2016)

Must See Movie...

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

This movie was a huge disappointment.The acting was terrible,the dialogues were extremely cliché .the story line was pathetic,horrible songs,idiotic fight scenes,the climax was unsatisfactory,the costumes were distasteful and the ending was dumb.In the first ten minutes so much had happened it seems like this was directed by a child( a child could probably do better) it felt lime at least two films had been shoved into one.the way the story progressed completely shredded the already insanely pathetic story.either the microphone was in their mouths or it was a voice-over whatever it was it was terrible.The two main actors cant act,completely incapable of showing emotions,the whole purpose of this ridiculous movie was to show who flexible Tiger Sherroff is,the fighting scenes are so long it's basically half of the movie and the other half is a rushed half ass-ed story.When Ronny fighting started at the building, one that fight scene was way too long, two had unrealistic aspects in the scene and it kind of got psychopathic. He clearly loved killing people more that the girl because when he finally got her, he still went out of his way to kill the bad guys.And the songs were absolutely ridiculous for example " lets fight". I applauded the fact that finally the heroine fought the evil henchman and the fact that the film tried to add a lot of English but i wished it didn't it just sent the cringe over board.Wasted 2 hours,totally not worth it.

I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. The first half of the movie is a throwback to the 80's style of movie telling, almost straight out of Subhash Ghai type of stable, with the lead pair meeting in a train, some corny dialogues, rainfall followed by Song, heroine giggly, hero heady. It was almost a relief to just throwback to old times for a change. But, then the Action part comes on and from then it gets better, especially for all the action fans. The story is really not much to crow about and is basically an excuse for the action and fights. The good part is, it has been shot decently well. Tiger Shroff carries the movie on his own by his terrific flair for action and fights. It was refreshing to see a new face and a no- holds barred action actor after a long time. His uncanny resemblance to Jackie shroff evokes older Shroff's movies. Shradda Kapoor plays an ideal foil to make up the romantic pair. Her attempt at action though falls flat. The support cast are excellent, including the actor who plays the Martial arts teacher and the guy who plays the villain. Photography is terrific capturing the backwaters of Kerla to the the streets of Bangkok. Music is surprisingly good, including couple of hummable songs and a background score which is fitting to the action. Overall, a must watch for desi action fans.

Okay, So where to start from. Story - 1/10 (full of cliché, unrealistic and cringe-worthy settings, romance and drama).Acting - 0/10 (Okay, this is my favourite part. HOW IN THE HELL is Tiger Shroff an actor ? His acting is as good as a wooden stick. Goes to show that how big impact can Surname make in bollywood. And let's not talk about Shraddha Kapoor, literally same attitude and acting in every movie. You can cut out her scenes from any other movie and paste in this movie, you would never notice the difference). Fighting scenes - 3/10 (Now some people are saying that this movie did good at what it was supposed to do. Not really. It was average at best.)Overall - 1/10 (The movie is full of clichés, VERY VERY cheap romance and songs, every other person showing off their pecs and abs. Tiger Shroff should really look for some other profession. There are countless number of struggling actors who can act million times better than him. Only positive thing in the movie is fighting sequences, which aren't as good as people are saying. Average at best.)

The main thing to discuss the movies is the action scenes. The movie borrows action scenes from the Western and Hongkong Movies. Some actions are tried to perform as it is from the movies like Tom Yum Goom, Ip Man, The raid redemption and Onk Bak, though are poorly choreographed. The problem with Indian action movies is the use of slow motion effect too much. There was hardly any punch which was not shown with slow motion. Putting everything on slow motion takes the naturality of action away. Good choreographed action scene need not to be put on slow motion all the time. The same thing happened in the movie ABCD-2, where I wasn't able to watch the climax dancing moves because of too much video effects of lighting. I hardly grasped anything. Bollywood needs to learn that thing from Hollywood- Rely on the skills of actor/director rather than of video editor. Tiger Shroff is a beauty- A complete star. His skills are so perfect. Comedy is too childish, I didn't laugh more than once or maybe twice. Shraddha is developing herself by rapid speed. Her dance is too good. She still has got innocence like a debuting actress. Though her action scenes were needless according to the movie script.This movie was below than what I was expected. Maybe because I watch too much Hollywood action movies. Action- 6.5/10 Comedy- 2/10 Romance- 3/10Love you Shraddha & Tiger.