Khiladi 786: Movie Review

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2166214/

Directed by Aashish Mohan starring Akshay Kumar, Asin, Himesh Reshammia and Mithun Chakraborty

An open letter to actor/producer/singer/music director/story writer Himesh Reshammia,

Dear Himesh,

How are you? Hope your nose is doing well.

Well, first of all, I would like to congratulate you for your home production film’s success and your vise decision both. Regarding your vise decision, well you announced, you wouldn’t be doing music in other than your films once, well everything didn’t go well in your acting assignments and we missed your melodious music. With Bodyguard, Bol Bachchan and SOS you corrected your self. All music were huge hits. So congrats. Here too in K786, the music is the most rocking thing along with the lead actor. Another congrats as mentioned is for success of your home production film. We always knew you would be a good (better say a profit making) producer, as we had seen your production house daily soaps’ huge success even when daily soaps culture was not that developed in India.

Coming to K786, it’s entertaining if one puts their brain outside the theaters. Though, it’s not that much possible for everyone, and though pre-warned one brings atleast 10% of the brain to the film, and hence it hams in parts. Akshay Kumar, whenever, is on screen, manages to steal the hearts and cheers, but whenever he leaves, the film falls flat. The concept, for such film, is meant to be like this. But the direction is quite childish and hence there are not much good one liners, not much of comic timings by other actors and hence the film remains half baked. Your comic performance, my friend was much much better in film Radio, but here you have overdone a lot. Though, fortunately or unfortunately masses are going to love you for this. Asin looks good and that satisfies the need of the role. Raj Babbar, Mithun Chakraborty, Sanjay Mishra, Mukesh Rishi, Johnny Lever or the guy who plays Aazad are okay. It’s just and just Akshay who is true khiladi. That's why it's his 8th film as Khiladi.

 

All tracks by you in the film are fantastic and well placed, be it peppy ‘lonely’, rdb style ‘balma’, sad ‘saari saari raat’ or ‘hooka baar’. Even the picturisation of the songs are quite better than the rest of the film. Lyrics by Sameer Anjaan may be his 504th or so movie, is pacable with music.

Scenes which I liked were, ‘chak de india’ parody, ‘gadar’ parody, super rafter by akki, some escapades of aazad from jail, some akki scenes and the songs (which were unfortunately all trimmed to one antaraas).

Though, we were not getting bored and didn’t felt disgusted but not enjoying that much, people in multiplex, where I watched the movie, mostly the family audience were cheering like anything for the movie, even though it was a second week, so well done.

2.5 cheers out of 5 from me, for akki and for your music only.

Regards,

The 70mm idiot – rancho – hardik raychanda