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Himmatwala

  • 2013
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 30m
IMDb RATING
1.8/10
9.6K
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Ajay Devgn and Tamannaah Bhatia in Himmatwala (2013)
An honest temple priest takes on more than he can handle when he bears witness to a murder and gives evidence in a court of law against a powerful landlord in his village.
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When a temple priest commits suicide after being dishonored by an evil landlord, his son returns to his native village on a mission of vengeance.When a temple priest commits suicide after being dishonored by an evil landlord, his son returns to his native village on a mission of vengeance.When a temple priest commits suicide after being dishonored by an evil landlord, his son returns to his native village on a mission of vengeance.

  • Director
    • Sajid Khan
  • Writers
    • K. Raghavendra Rao
    • Sajid Khan
    • Farhad Samji
  • Stars
    • Ajay Devgn
    • Tamannaah Bhatia
    • Mahesh Manjrekar
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  • IMDb RATING
    1.8/10
    9.6K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Sajid Khan
    • Writers
      • K. Raghavendra Rao
      • Sajid Khan
      • Farhad Samji
    • Stars
      • Ajay Devgn
      • Tamannaah Bhatia
      • Mahesh Manjrekar
    • 46User reviews
    • 13Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 6 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Ajay Devgn
    Ajay Devgn
    • Ravi
    Tamannaah Bhatia
    Tamannaah Bhatia
    • Rekha
    Mahesh Manjrekar
    Mahesh Manjrekar
    • Sher Singh
    Paresh Rawal
    Paresh Rawal
    • Narayan Das
    Zarina Wahab
    Zarina Wahab
    • Savitri
    Adhyayan Suman
    Adhyayan Suman
    • Shakti
    Leena Jumani
    Leena Jumani
    • Padma
    Govardhan Asrani
    Govardhan Asrani
    • Banwari T.C.
    Anil Dhawan
    Anil Dhawan
    • Dharamurthy
    Rajendra Gupta
    Rajendra Gupta
    • Iqbal Chacha
    Vindu Dara Singh
    Vindu Dara Singh
    • Gopi
    Chunky Pandey
    Chunky Pandey
    • Michael Jai Kishen
    Roy Bronsgeest
    • City Fighters in Village
    Surveen Chawla
    Surveen Chawla
    • Punjabi Girl (Dhoka Song)
    Riteish Deshmukh
    Riteish Deshmukh
    • Ravi
    Rinku Ghosh
    Rinku Ghosh
    • Bhojpuri Girl (Dhoka Song)
    Amruta Khanvilkar
    Amruta Khanvilkar
    • Maharashtrian Girl (Dhoka Song)
    Aaryamann Sapru
    • Goon
    • Director
      • Sajid Khan
    • Writers
      • K. Raghavendra Rao
      • Sajid Khan
      • Farhad Samji
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    1ravik-kant

    Insult to Human Logic

    Climax scene, very intense. Son (Ajay Devgan) is getting beaten inside a temple compound by villains in front of his mother, sister and girlfriend. Mother, finally enters into temple and pleads to god "Bas Maa Bas, Aur Kab Tak".

    Entire cinema hall bursts into laughter! I doubt there can be any bigger insult to a movie maker than this - he is trying to create an emotional scene and viewer is getting comedy out of it. If I could, I'd request govt to consider giving out some sort of award - not to the movie, but to the viewers for going through this tormenting, nerve-racking, torturous assault on human logic. I wish I could get my money back and sue the director for wasting my 2 hours.

    Well, this was probably the most confused movie I have ever seen. The treatment is pathetic and the entire movie is shot casually without any brains. It being a remake of an old movie (well, almost all the decently launched Hindi movies now a days are either remake of some Tamil / Telugu / Kannada / Hollywood film or some sequels like Murder 3, Jism 3, Race 2, Saheb Biwi and Crap returns, Ashiqui 2, Yamala Pagla Deewana 2 etc) always brings additional expectation of it to be slightly better than the earlier one. Not with this one. Forget being better, if Jitendra sees it, he might contemplate killing himself for approving such a shady remake.

    Movie starts with a street fight which is idiotically shot. Then suddenly jumps to a railway station called Ramnagar. Ajay Devgan gets down from the train with dress and shades of 2013 for a movie which supposedly is of 1980s. Meets mother - mothers tells some senseless story - they move in to their home and starts taking revenge on villain. I guess my narration of story is far better than how Sajid Khan has managed to display it.

    Presence of Paresh Rawal doesn't help with comic quotient of the movie. Its ridiculously meaningless - but I guess we must have gotten used to it by now with Houseful and Houseful 2. I am yet to figure out why Sajid Khan is loosing his brain with each movie he is releasing. Hey Baby was a much better entertainer and after that, he seemingly has lost his sane in making movies.

    The tiger fight scene is absurd and nonsensical. In 2013, where CGI is so far advanced, the entire stretch is shot as if the director is running on budget crunch. Guess, it is more of a intellect-crunch at directors end than anything else.

    Well, not everything is bad in this movie. There are two good things - call them eye soothing if you wish - Tamannah, who simply looked fabulous, and 5 beauties dancing on "Dhoka Dhoka Dhoka" item song. The song is ludicrous (like rest of the songs and the movie itself), but I guess having 5 item girls helped a bit to glorify the screen.

    Should you watch this movie? Well, go ahead if you want to see how an illogical movie is made to abuse human brain. I lost my senses after watching this movie and had to wait 24 hours before I could gain some of it to write this apt review.

    In my opinion, you'll be much better off sipping some drink and enjoying a biryani with that money in some decent restaurant than wasting it here. If you are not hungry, give that money to some beggar for god's sake, better than wasting on it. You would not miss anything in life if you haven't watch it - trust me!
    1saadibrar720

    Pathetic simply pathetic

    I just wasted 2 hours of my life for this crap. After seeing Joker and Tees Mar Khan i was expecting that those were the worst things ever happened to me but boy , Sajid Khan proved me wrong. This crap is senseless and a torture to anyone . U must be a real himmatwala to watch himmatwala (bullshit). Sajid Khan please use some logic before releasing a torture cell. Do not waste your time and money . Acting by each and everyone in the movie is pathetic. Ajay Devgan disappointed me a lot . Im a huge fan of him but he is a total waste in this movie. Direction from Sajid Khan is too bad. I think he was confused while making this movie and did not know what to do . Tamanna Bhatia is beautiful but her acting was not up to the mark. Paresh Rawal is way out of his own league in this flick. In a nut shell this movie is going to be the biggest flop of this year.
    1desisongsvevo

    One of the "Worst Bollywood Movie" u will ever see

    Help me guys. Rate this shi*t 1/10 and throw pup on Sajid Khan's face.

    Also thumb up the review so everyone can see only one line and save their time.

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    Cant believe why Ajay and Pervesh would do such a film. This movie make Tees Maar KHan and Joker award winning movies. Hope Akshay don't do his films in future. He thinks all of us are jokers wating to get fooled.

    Only Good thing is songs (those reused)are reasonablly well. Tamanaah look very good but cant be said about her acting.

    Cant believe why Ajay and Pervesh would do such a film. This movie make Tees Maar KHan and Joker award winning movies. Hope Akshay don't do his films in future. He thinks all of us are jokers wating to get fooled.
    1jaydeep-subhashis

    Himmatwala is not worth a ticket.

    I clearly remember when I first saw the trailer of Himmatwala and at the end of it written A Sajid Khan Entertainer, I was sure that another trash from sajid's kitty is going to see the daylight and this time I promised not to watch the movie in theater at least. Then finally i watched it in my Laptop and i was so happy that Sajid khan didn't prove me wrong.Each and every scene and the nuances of each character's depiction was so silly, unfunny and annoying that i completed the movie within 1 hr and 10 mins.The shocking thing was how could an actor like Ajay Devgn's caliber sign a nonsense movie like this? just for the sake of 100 Cr moolah that could make a hat trick other two being Bol Bachchan and SOS. Tamannah, please go back to south and if Trisha fails to grab a position in Bollywood, then of course you can't. Again as there are so many other bimbos flying high with success with khans without knowing acting then chances to sizzle on bollywood screen gets higher courtesy Sajid Khan.Sorry Jacqueline Fernandez. And yes Sajid, as you hate critics, so let me tell you am no critic and love Hindi films but know the difference between good and bad.And yes in a recent reality show where you were one of the judges,you were saying repeatedly " Your performance is like Sajid Khan's Blockbusters" gone horribly wrong at least from the multiplex collections of Himmatwala. And Multiplex audiences are more of a class. Rest You can think yourself..Please No Himmatwala 2....EARNEST REQUEST!!!
    1as5239996

    The worst film can get

    The worst the worst film ever, i won;t spend even a single rupees for this pit film. Sajid Khan feels he is the best director of the film industry but he should knows this that he is the worst in all. He doesn't have any writing sense or directing sense. I wonder why great actor like Ajay Devgan is doing such films like this and wasting his talent. It is pitiful that a national award winning actor that does film like Bhagat Singh can do Himmatwala. Already i disliked the original film but how could the makers even think of remaking it on such a heavy budget. I think as this has gone flop the director will now take few years to come back just as his sister's brother. It's funny film for the makers not the film.

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    • Trivia
      Sajid Khan said so many people would want to see the film, it would sell out for 3 straight days. No one came to see the film. After 5 days, it was out of every theatre.
    • Goofs
      When the tiger is about to attack Tammannah, he is very close to her but when he goes to attack he is shown at a wide distance.
    • Crazy credits
      Ajay Devgan's appearance was used to credit himself playing the titular character of Himmatwala, instead of the traditional actor's name being printed on screen.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Policegiri (2013)

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    • Release date
      • March 29, 2013 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • India
    • Official site
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    • Language
      • Hindi
    • Also known as
      • Brave Man
    • Production companies
      • Puja Entertainment (India)
      • UTV Motion Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $10,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $270,880
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $197,770
      • Mar 31, 2013
    • Gross worldwide
      • $8,644,563
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    • Runtime
      • 2h 30m(150 min)
    • Color
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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