“Khiladi is
back” shouts out the male lead of the movie in his famous husky toned voice as he
glides with the speed of light. His histrionics do induce a slight sense of
humor despite a ridiculous, irritating and sickening screenplay.
Fake cop Bahattar
Singh (Akshay Kumar) is a local looter with Robin Hood-like characteristics. He
also desperately wants to be married. Match maker Mansukh (Himesh Reshamiya) brings in the proposal
of a nice brat, Indu (Asin) who is the sister of TT (Mithun Chakraborty), a
thug. The to-be in-laws’ fake their identities pretending to be cops.
A no-brainer
film needs to have brainy dialogues is what the film teaches you. Heavily
inspired from its genre of Bolly-movies, it unabashedly steals fragments and
pieces of storylines and settings. Its humor is plain stupid and nearly every
scene celebrates the stupidity. The African- Canadian- Chinese family track is
not funny! Add to it all is Himesh Reshamiya’s performance that does a good job
at sabotaging his own film.
Akshay Kumar
with his 786 ka haath (whatever
that meant!) is like your reward for bearing with the ongoing absurdity. Not
that he does anything he hasn’t done before but that he does it with so much
dexterity that missing out to blink would not be a bad idea. His screen
presence, style, attitude, spirit, dialogues and looks ward off the horrifying
effect that director Ashish Mohan’s work otherwise probably intends to create. The
horror here is the shock one receives witnessing the heights of crap. Mr. Khiladi
on the other hand crosses heights of awesomeness ~ that’s the irony!
Hardly any other
performance is mention-worthy. Mithun Chakraborty gets into his Housefull 2 mode again. Johny Lever is
given dialogues that fail to register. Asin looks pretty and does well. Music
is average. The best song is ‘intelligently’ placed towards the end along
with the credit titles.
You have to
be a die-hard Akshay fan in order to gulp down this absurd wave cinema. Don’t complain
because Tera pyaar pyaar pyaar rhymes
with Hookah Bar!
RATING – 1.5
stars
