High-voltage entertainer for the masses Cast: Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda, Vineet Kumar Singh, Sayami Kher, Jagapathi Babu, Regina Cassendra...
High-voltage entertainer for the masses
Cast:
Sunny Deol, Randeep Hooda, Vineet Kumar Singh, Sayami Kher, Jagapathi Babu,
Regina Cassendra, Ramya Krishnan
Director Gopichandh Malineni, an acclaimed Telugu film director, makes his Hindi film debut but with a twist. Most of the cast, barring the main leads, are for the South industry. He makes the film a typical massy Telugu film-like entertainer, never leaving a dull moment. The film has a lot of seeti-maar moments especially the introductory scenes of Randeep Hooda and Sunny Deol. The police station mayhem scene in the second half is executed brilliantly. The writing, too, grips the viewers. The villain portrayed here is different from the other massy films with a backstory to tell. The film is also laced with disturbing scenes (that have been toned down by the censor board), which goes well with the story. But the climax is hurried and a letdown.
The film starts with the end of Jaffna Tiger Force (JTF) in Sri Lanka in the year 2009. A poor labourer Ranatunga (Randeep Hooda) and his brothers, while digging, come across a trunk full of gold bricks that had been left behind by the JTF. The Sri Lankan army tries to retain it but is ruthlessly stopped and killed by Ranatunga and his men and leave for the coastal area of Andhra Pradesh. With the gold, Ranatunga builds a criminal empire in the area around the village of Motupulli. He creates mayhem by not thinking twice before killing anyone who comes in his way. No one, including the minister and police, dares to take action against him.
Cut to the present day, a man (Sunny Deol) on his way from Chennai to North India by train (which stops at Chirala due to an accident on the tracks), leaves the train for a meal at a roadside eatery. While having hot idlis, some goons come there and mistakenly push him resulting in the food falling down. He goes upto the man and asks him to say' sorry'. They refuse and try to attack him. The man beats all of them single-handedly. They inform him that they are the men of a powerful local politician Ram Subba Reddy (Ajay Ghosh). The man goes with the goons and bashes up Ram Subba Reddy, where the latter tells that Somulu (Vineet Kumar Singh), is like a brother to him. The man now goes and beats the hell out of Somulu, who informs him that he is none other than the brother of the powerful Ranatunga. In this remote and lawless land, the man is all alone taking on the most powerful and dangerous man single-handedly.
Sunny Deol is in a larger-than-life avatar that will be lapped up by his fans. There is a cigarette flicking scene of Sunny that will definitely be greeted by the audience (yes Sunny smokes in this film). Randeep Hooda is brilliant with his menacing looks and matches Sunny frame to frame. In fact, he has an equal/parallel role and does full justice to it. Vineet Kumar Singh as Somulu is superb. Regina Cassandra as Bharathi, Ranatunga's wife, is equally terrifying. What a performance from her! Saiyami Kher as Sub-Inspector Vijaya Lakshmi is wonderful. Jagapathi Babu as CBI officer Satyamurthy is able, and so is Swaroopa Ghosh as Ranatunga's mother. Makarand Deshpande and Zarina Wahab do well but Mushtaq Khan is wasted. Ramya Krishan as Vasundhara, the President of India, is in a cameo. There is a sizzling hot Urvashi Rautela in the item song 'touch kiya'. Another wonderful cameo is by Upendra Limaye. He will definitely get the claps for his performance.
The film is a thorough entertainer with explosive action and high-voltage performances from Sunny and Randeep. Recommended for the masses!
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