Review of Gabbar Is Back

Three years ago Sanjay Leela Bhanshali had produced a commercial movie coming out of his conventional image taking Akshay Kumar in the lead role and it became the highest grossing film for both Akshay Kumar and Mr. Bhanshali's career. It was "Rowdy Rathode", a south Indian remake which can compromise with the story to any level just to make it a profitable deal at the box office. Getting inspired with that success, these two guys have joined hands once again for yet another movie "Gabbar Is Back", which is again an out an out commercial movie which is the remake of a south Indian movie "Ramanna". The only difference this time is that the story here deals with a very relevant issue of fighting against corruption but unfortunately it deals with such a noble issue in a totally unrealistic way just to generate seetis and taalis at regular interval.

The story is about a professor Aditya(Akshay Kumar) who use to live a happy life with his wife(Kareena Kapoor Khan in a cameo). Just like any other Indian common man he does not bother much about corruption until one day he has to loose a lot as an aftermath of

corruption.While trying to find justice for his personal loss he finds how deeply corruption is rooted in every government sector. This lesson changes his life totally and he forms a group of young and honest college students to fight against corruption on his own way taking the pet name of Gabbar. Gabbar does his operations in an unique style , his motive is to stop corruption from every government sector by creating fear in every government official's mind that if they participate in corruption in any way then they will be get punished (read killed) by Gabbar. For that Gabbar and his team prepares a list of top ten corrupt officers in every government departments like Tehsildars or PWD officers or even Policemen and then kidnaps them and kills the officer who was on top of that list. The team of police is unable to caught this guy named Gabbar and the only constable Sadhu(Sunil Grover) who can provide some serious clue to solve this case is ignored by his senior officers. Although the approach Gabbar and his team takes is very unrealistic still it gives pleasure to the audiences who are already a victim as well as active member of this corrupt system.The similar kind of approach has been seen in last years disastrous movie "Ungli" but here it looks better because of the screen presence of the leading man Akshay Kumar. But all of a sudden the makers realizes it is a south Indian movie remake and has been made for commercial viewing so there must be a chatterbox heroine Shruti (Shruti Hasan) who will keep meeting our hero here and there accidentally and will fall in love with him after 3 -4 scenes which will lead to an irrelevant song and dance. Also there needs to be a totally cliche villain Digvijay Patil (Suman Talwar) whose only motive in life will be to kill our hero but in the climax he will be killed by our hero of course. This sub tracks obviously derails the main plot. The half baked romantic track between Aditya and Shruti is absolutely not required here. The climax though have much impact and it works to fill the gaps here and there in the screenplay. As the climax has a good impact so when the audience comes out they will feel touched with the subject to some extent.
The dialogues written by Rajat Arora is good in some sequences and it generates clapping too but it could have been much better.

As a director. debutante director Krish has done a good job considering the requirement of his target audiences. He has made the film totally entertaining , considering its commercial aspects. There is a probability that the film will do good at the box office so it will shape up his career as a director in a good way in future.

Among the actors it can be said it is Akshay Kumar who has dominated the 130 minute running time of the film. He has played his part very convincingly. Even at the age of 47 he

has proved in action sequences no other hero looks as real as him. He will surely touch your heart at his inspirational speech at the climax.
Among the other actors Kareena Kapoor Khan looks glamorous in the one song sequence. Shruti Hasan looks pretty but has very less to do. Sunil Grover, the funnyman from televison has tried something different from his comedian image and he has succeeded to left impression. South Indian actor Suman Talwar is disappointing as the main villain. In every scene it looks like he is just a less expensive duplicate of Prakash Raj. Jaideep Ahlawat as the CBI inspector has his moments but  very little screen time.

The only hit song of the film is "Teri Meri Kahani" composed by Chirantan Bhatt. It is already a hit and it works in favor of the movie too as it helps to narrate the whole background love story of the characters played by Akshay and Kareena. The rest of the songs featuring Shruti Hasan and Chitrangada Singh (in a guest appearance) are neither sounds nor looks good on screen, rather these songs slow down the pace of the story and adds extra running time. Among the technical team it is the stunts choregraphed by Shiva which is very much mass appealing and will be liked very much.

Overall "Gabbar Is Back" is a well made film for its target audiences who likes high voltage action and drama. In spite of its loopholes the story has been carried well by Akhshay Kumar on his muscular soldiers. Go and watch it if you like mainstream masala films and it is a must watch if you are an Akhshay Kumar fan.