Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3

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Total bhassam film. No acting, no script, Sanjay dutt is now a closed chapter for doing such roles, it had to be a vulnerable character like Irffan and Hooda earlier,

Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster 3. The title has a resonance thanks to the impact that the film's two predecessors had made. Frittering it away on a flimsy Russian roulette-style effort isn't a good idea. So when the team decides to come up with another follow-up - the final moments of this film suggest that the fourth may not be far away - it will have to go all guns blazing. Or not at all.

I missed the poignancy of a lost era, with its lost people, clinging desperately to their fading power, that Dhulia managed to create in the first two films. You can see it in Shergill's ramrod straight figure, and his awareness of the times gone by. You can see it in Gill's playing of the woman scorned, who is both drawn to and repelled by her Saheb: there's lushness in both her figure and feelings, a shared history of rancid love and hate.

The royals of Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3 patronise obscure traditions and look more ancient than a '70s film. It offers nothing other than a niggling ache. It's certainly a question mark on Tigmanshu's otherwise satisfactory filmography.

I was expecting SBG3 to be a complete turd, and only went because a friend insisted on us seeing it. There are occasionally interesting moments, mainly because of the returning actors - Jimmy Shergill and Mahie Gill - who are comfortable in their roles even if by now the characters have become cardboard conspirators instead of the more nuanced personas of the first film. These are mixed with heaped helpings of non-sequitur and unintentional hilarity. Sanjay Dutt looks like age, plus a lifetime of booze and hedonistic living have addled his brain to the point he has a perennial slur (or perhaps he was drunk throughout the shoot). Chitrangada Singh is seen as a second-fiddle nautch girl character whose accent suggests she studied her mujra craft at Cambridge, or perhaps Yale. Other characters come and go with less-than-basic regard to continuity and coherence, like no one thought to do a second draft on the script or perhaps even wrote it up as they shot on set.

Apart from the leads, the film's casting seems to have been decided based on a "Kahan gaye woh log?" Bollywood trivia quiz so you have appearances from Kabir Bedi, Nafisa Ali and Deepak-fricking-Tijori.

The first Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster was brilliant. The second was mediocre, all handled by Irfan Khan. The third film is lost. Its the worst. There is no structure. Its as if the writer has hap-hazardously written something in one night like a college assignment just for the sake of doing it.

The characters have lost their core. Jimmy Shergill and Mahi Gill have given good performances but there is hardly anything in the story. Jimmy's character has downgraded, become a bit dumb. Gill's character, well even the writer does not know what she really wants. Chitrangana (known to do selective films) plays a useless character for the first time in her career. Absolutely zero contribution to the story (whatever it is). Sanjay Dutt is mediocre, let down by the story. And there is Soha Ali Khan also. I am out of words for her character.

The screenplay is lackluster. You actually see people in the theatre checking their phones. Even I did (which I never do). The music is terrible. All songs are bad. Thanks for having just 2 songs. This is the classic Bollywood example of adding songs for no reason.

The main culprit of the movie is Tigmanshu Dhulia. We expect decent content from him. But he is the one who has underdelivered. The writing, the direction is boring. It looks as if he just made the movie hastily or just for the sake of making it or for Sanjay Dutt. He has wasted some good actors, and most importantly a good franchise. Well, not as bad as Remo did for Race!