Sunday, December 9, 2012

Khiladi 786

“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


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