Per se, I'd avoided
the first 'Dabangg', presuming it to
be a mindless film. But, this one
happened more because it was with a large group, where any movie becomes bearable. After all, one goes to movies like
these expecting absolute garbage.
So, the movie is
about the Robin Hood Cop, Chulbul
Pandey (Salman Khan) who has now
taken a transfer to the big city,
Kanpur. There, he runs into the local
goon and politico Bachcha Bhaiya (Prakah Raj). One thing leads to another
and Chulbul kills Bachcha's brother
who has threatened a local girl, sending these two on a warpath.
Chulbul's wife Rajjo (Sonakshi Sinha) is now pregnant and his well wishers, including his perpetually hungry
foodie boss (Manoj Pahwa) convince him not
to engage in a tiff with Bachcha Bhaiyya as he is now a family man and has
lot to lose. But, Chulbul can't be talked out of it so easily. When Bachcha
hits it below the belt, Chulbul vows
revenge which forms the rest of the story. How these movies end is an easy
guess!
Talking about
Acting, Salman Khan still can't act and
director Arbaaz sleepwalks in his
role as Chulbul's brother Makkhi. And all that Sonakshi Sinha had to do was to look homely. And then, what's the
obsession with Prakash Raj as the villain?
As good an actor that he may be, it has become too tiresome actually!!
What sucks is its woeful editing, one scene cuts from the
other suddenly. Seems like a hurriedly packed up jumble of scenes placed in the following order: there is a joke, followed by a stunt, followed by a song; and the cycle repeats over and over.
The much talked
about item song 'Fevicol Se' has
Kareena Kapoor gyrating to some desi
beats and hinglish lyrics. But, it lacks
the zing that 'Munni Badnaam' had created in the earlier Dabangg. But,
silly as it may be, the song stays in
your mind.
In short, Dabangg 2
is a film that you can watch if you leave
your brain in the car park, not expecting the least bit of logic from it. If
the current trend is to be believed, the day is not far when there will be hardly any difference between Telugu-Tamil movies and Bollywood flicks,
barring language and the lead star hailing from the Hindi belt.
As such, Salman
Khan's name is enough to draw crowds.
So, the mantra seems to be: 'who cares
about logic as long as people laugh & producers make fast buck!!'
Rating 4/10: Crass movie, but doesn't give you
a headache!
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