Bullbhai Da Horn

Have you seen True Lies? This is in that genre. Senseless, nothing has an iota of credibility (hyperbolic stunt scenes where an army of thugs with AK 47s can’t shoot straight at one hero! 😂 Then an aircraft carrier is sent to transport a bunch of cops back home! An aircraft carrier, Rohit Shetty, seriously?😆)…… …..but hold your breath, TERRIFIC ENTERTAINMENT, start to finish. Devgan, Deepika, Jacky and Tiger are very competent, Akshay has a swag cameo but it’s Ranveer who steals the show with some great comedy. Definite one-time watch and you don’t come away feeling cheated. Good direction, great graphics, the storyline intermeshing with Ramayana is very creative and simply, non-stop action.

Simply the worst Mammooty film I have seen for a long time. Up to the time (say around 30 mins) it is a police investigation of the murders, which Mammooty’s character cracks with amateurish Poirot skills, the movie is even passably gripping. Then it transcends into a bottomless pit of a hackneyed storyline which is a mindless contortion of themes from the Exorcist and then some more from a Ramsay Bros flick. Watching this movie needs a finger on the fast forward button for 75%. Complete waste of a great actor like Mammooty by a completely inept director whose only real competition is his even more incompetent scriptwriter.

Good plot, credible acting performances (even Vijay Raaz manages to be less melodramatic). But very poorly paced, and the last 15 mins seems to be a rush job at finding an end, rather than a fitting climax to what could have been a great movie. At the end the viewer is left confused what the film was about. Was it about wildlife conservation? Because the protagonist (Vidya Balan, a Forest Officer) fails in her goal despite the film rambling mostly about that very effort for 90% of its duration. Or was Vidya the sherni fighting bureaucracy and corruption, because she fails there too. She looks tired and depressed throughout the movie, unlike an energetic Rajkumar Rao in Newton. At the end of watching Sherni, one gets to know a bit more about the forest and how a tiger moves, and the fragile balance with the ecosystem which is getting degraded. Nothing which a Nat Geog documentary couldn’t have told us in a much better way. Bad editing, and slow pace killed what could have been a truly good movie. Worth a watch but that’s about it.