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Veer (2010)
A lot of hype but only some pleasure.
Veer is Salman Khans most ambitious project to date. No doubt about that, he has scripted the film, but that is exactly what the film suffers from, don't get me wrong, it isn't half bad for a man whos career lies is in acting. But its quite obvious that Salman viewed the Hollywood Epic "Troy" beforehand, most of the storyline is a rip off from it. 2 warring tribes? the heroine belonging to the enemy tribe? A fight between Veer and the heroines brother in which Veer wins? A tearful yet acceptable climax? All seems a bit too familiar to me.
Salman is very good in the film but he is looking his age, for the most part he does not have a six pack but more of a flab pack. Sohail Khan is ludicrous (in the bad sense), he tries hard to bring a sense of humour but fails miserably. Mithun pleasantly surprises, the fight between him and Salman is the highlight of the film. Jackie Shroff is bearable as is his on-screen daughter, the heroine and debutant, Zarine Khan.
However the film is in all honesty, too long, while being an adaptation of troy, it also has its own stroyline, but 2 and half hours is pushing it, the story could have been told in 2 hours max given the brief interlude from the songs (which are picturised very well).
The love story is a run-of-the-mill one, hero and heroine falls in love, then some melodrama (and in this case fighting and action), before a reunion, then an expected twist.
Action scenes, war scenes etc etc are underdone, the film is definitely an epic, but more in the bollywood "44 crore budget" sense, Veer lacks the granduer but Salman more than makes up for it.
Music is well used in the film, depicts the more grand style of times back then, but the party song, the name of which i cant remember is brilliant on screen. Cinematography is all in all very good.
Final Verdict: See it for Salman, but don't go expecting a huge bollywood epic, you'll be disappointed.
Singh Is Kinng (2008)
Another Tashan, but marginally better.
I really wanted this film to work for Akki, i'm a huge fan of two mega stars of the Indian industry, King Khan and King Kumar. But it seemed that Singh is Kinng, which promised us a Punjabi Manda flick from the exciting promos, is actually a partially humorous and what seemed like a 2 and a half hour King Khan bashing film. Each different scene seems to have some quip about srk in it, if it is not about the don then it is a man in a King Khan mask getting beaten up. In trying to make Srk seem inferior to Akki, the producers have produced a film which has a wafer thin plot and is way TOO long. the plot is essentially a 1 and half hour flick but is spaced out into a 3 hour megathon with music(which is quite brilliant, but there is yet another King Khan bash here in the "Bas Ek king" song, i wonder who the other "king" is then? Teri Ore is another great track and the cinematography is mind blowing, You get the feeling that there are some needless scenes which adds to the films bumper length, therefore humour is used as the main tool to keep the audience interested, this is where King Kumar is brilliant, he is definitely the "king" of humour and was the only reason i bothered to stay in the cinema, he is also marvellous in the action scenes throughout the film. But sadly the humour doesn't last, it comes and goes throughout and the climax of the film leaves you disappointed. It seems that Akshay has set out to star in films which deliver the message that Srk is inferior to him, if he had not done this in this film, Singh is Kinng had and HAS the potential with its music to smash all barriers, including that of King Khan but once again the film he has given us is "Garam"(solely because of Akki) but has no "Masala". You get the feeling that this may be another Tashan, which is sad.