Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag (2007)

hyped garbage

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Something somewhere must have terribly gone wrong right at the time when the director was perceiving this plot. The movie, that was supposed to be the remake of one of the most loved movies in cinema, fails to deliver in every aspect of movie making. The best of the artists could also not pick up the tuning, that simply goes on to show that the movie in itself was a grave mistake.The editing is poor. Direction is crap. Acting is out of this world(omg)! The characters who are supposed to look scary force people to laugh on the stupidity of their dialogues and costumes.I wouldn't watch the movie even if someone paid me the cost of the tickets or even gave me a free burger with it.

There is no un-remake-able movie. I mean yes, some classics are awe-inspiring; being too good to be true, let alone the history of you with them. But again and again, there are capable artists who can remake even the most memorable movies as super ones. The makers of (RGVKA) don't belong to this bunch of artists AT ALL. They don't even come near them within 1000 miles! This is a remake of one of the greatest Indian blockbusters ever (Sholay – 1975) which was itself a remake of (The Seven Samurai – 1954), yet a super remake. So, when you intent to remake, you have 2 choices : 1) do something better. Or 2) do something, at least, as good. Clearly it didn't do both. This movie impudently copies the honored, learned by heart, original the way any parrot does. It's really a classic when it comes to embody the detestable shot-by-shot transcribing, the very low remaking, and the stark-naked bankruptcy of the Indian cinema in the 2000s !Let's review the disaster; they thought that by casting (Amitabh Bachchan), one of the original's leads, as the evil man then they got a movie. They were wrong. So wrong. Because nothing was interesting enough, even seeing (Bachchan) himself! The character of (Babban) wasn't something special. Yes, (Bachchan) put some of the Amith magic to it, with tries to give it a bit of originality. But it's still idiot; yawning like a cat meaninglessly, talking in what sounds like great wisdom while all of his lines are so naive, eating in a restaurant while he's one of the most wanted and already a fugitive (!!),..etc. Speaking about originality, Bachchan was wearing the same outfit he wore in (Deewaar : Let's Bring Our Heroes Home) 3 years earlier (??). They gave him more screen time, cared about his own scenes but nothing made him surpass (Gabbar Singh) which was played by Amjad Khan (maybe the prototype of the violent evil man in the Indian cinema since the mid-1970s), or end my feeling about this movie as one of (Bachchan)'s smirches, else (Abhishek Bachchan)! So what's more laughable ? (Prashant Raj)'s haircut as so 70s? The performance of the actor who played the blind father? (Mohan Lal) who is too fat, and too frigid, to be that wounded policeman? Or (Abhishek Bachchan)'s cameo, presence, and his dubbed voice saying (Mahbobba, ahh, Mahbobba) ?!! No. It's the difference between the word (Sholay) and (Aag) since both mean Fire! There are plenty of laughable scenes where you must laugh at the movie not with it; the 2 leads attack some foes; who hold machine guns, with their bare hands and win (???), at the end the survivor lead hits nearly 5 foes, bigger than him and have machine guns, alone by just a short iron pipe !! Well, some people are just lucky (and I'm talking about the ones who didn't have to see this!). Watching the same comic scenes of the original repeating so lifelessly was pathetic; how to forget that hearing the same joke twice is a turn-off?!! (so how about hearing them by weak actors as well?!). This is what bad déjà vu stands for. It makes you ask ; why didn't they CREATE something for their own in these situations (simply why didn't they write a new movie for their own in the first place ?!!). However, they did things of their own indeed…Firstly they removed the song about the colors' festival to the inspector's flash back. How Original ! Secondly, they changed the names. But I read that due to director RGV's infringement of the trademark and copyright of G.P. Sippy (the first movie's producer) the Delhi High Court ordered this changing of names. So even this addition was done by a court's verdict?? Now How Scary ! And thirdly, the presence of the village was so trivial. Because this is not a western anymore, this is another usual, rather trite, action. And when the climax takes place in a huge deserted warehouse with a gang that ride motorcycles then it is close to Robocop more than anything !Director (Varma) had ebullient passion for Nisha Kothari's small sized butt. It was obvious (and boring) to see that so deliberately in every cadre she's in! The movie was one very poor, very dark video clip. The narrow, all indoor, locations were more than provocative since the movie is about a war. Furthermore, he shot nearly the whole thing from an inebriate's point of view, slanting and wobbling all the time, even at the serious parts!! And when the final result is this movie then you have to hate that the director very proudly put his name in the movie's title. That mirrors heavy megalomania. Actually, what's here, Mr. Varma, to be proud about to this extent ?!!!!!!!!Good points? Hmm.. Sushmita Sen for one. Nisha Kothari, by far, for another. The songs were OK. And believe it or not, the references to (Amar Akbar Anthony) and the slight, hardly noticeable, musical ones to (Sholay) were the best of this movie! It is another usual, rather trite, action, and with its statues as a remake of a great, WAS untouchable, movie then it's lamentable ! It utterly deserves being one of the biggest flops in Bollywood history. The difference between it and its original is the same between Pluto and the Sun! But save all the sad feelings, because I know that if the matters of one industry which produces 1100 movies yearly will still the same then we'll have (Amar Akbar Anthony : the remake) very soon. I just hope it'd be less bad! Finally, (Ajay Devgan) has a not handsome, not expressive and so silly face. This movie looks so much like him!

This is bad bad bad!!! The man who gave us Satya and Company gives us 'Ram Gopal Verma Ki Aag'. RGV falls victim to pride and the results aren't pretty to look at. There is no creativity on display in this venture. The fight scenes are incoherent and totally lacking in thrills or excitement. Amitabh Bachchan tries hard but fails to replicate Amjad Khan's legendary intensity. Ajay Devgun looks lost. Nisha Kothari's short movie career is probably over. Only Mohanlal escapes with his dignity intact. The film is overlong to boot making it painful to sit through. Definitely NOT worth watching.Overall 1/10

I cannot say that Aag is the worst Bollywood film ever made, because I haven't seen every Bollywood film, but my imagination tells me that it could well be.This film seems like an attempt at artistic suicide on behalf of the director, and I for one be believe he has been successful in his mission. No A-list actor outside of this film would risk sharing the same billing as him for all the humiliation this film is bound to carry with it.But lets not just blame the director here, there is the cinematographer, who looks like he's rehearsing for the amateur home movie maker of the year award. There is the over dramatic score, that hopes to carry you to the next scene. The lighting man, who must have been holding a cigarette in one hand and light bulb on pole in the other, and hoping that the flame burning off the cigarette would add to that much needed light in every scene. And, of course the actors! Some of them are by no means newcomers, else all could be forgiven here. The ensemble of actors in Aag were put together to promote a new beginning and dimension to the re-make of India's most loved movie of all time, 'Sholay'. One must not forget that these actors were not forced in to this film, they are A-list and willing participants to something that, let's face it would surely have had high and eager public expectation??? So it begs the question, Amitabh aside (for now), did the other actors really believe their performances even attempted to better the original? Did Amitabh Bachchan read the script and believe that people would remember his dialogue in this farcical abomination of a film? Don't be stupid, of course he didn't, this was a demonstration to the public of how much money talks hence can make actors walk.I truly hope everyone involved is satisfied with what is truly a vulgar attempt to remake a classic film, which only succeeds in polluting everyone's mind when they watch the original.