Dhaakad movie review: Kangana Ranaut, Divya Dutta do the heavy lifting in this slick action film

And whereas a lot has been stated about Dhaakad (a formidable identify certainly) being India’s uncommon woman-centric motion movie, there are literally two ladies who do many of the heavy-lifting right here, and fairly effortlessly at that – Kangana Ranaut because the protagonist Agent Agni, and Divya Dutta as Rohini, the mind, monetary thoughts, emotional assist and far, rather more of a felony ring dealing in coal and trafficking of girls.

The 2 confrontations between Agni and Rohini are the movie’s highlights, though Dhaakad makers are clearly going for Agni’s combating talents, and Rudraveer’s villainy, performed to hamming over-effect by Arjun Rampal. We’re getting used to this off-kilter Rampal now, lined in tattoos, rings, fur-lined lengthy coats and experimental hair kinds.

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However the shock right here is Kangana Ranaut, who could be very sombre, very understated because the agent operating from a tortured previous — not like how the movie promotions may need themselves steered, and in contrast to how the actor appears to see herself recently. Dutta, after all, is simply good, interval. And her Rohini is not any exception, her position of a former prostitute who now runs the enterprise with an iron hand, with little mercy and lot of crafty, suggesting layers and layers which deserve a movie of their very own. Now here’s a kothewali who will get her fingers soiled, talks soiled, and is aware of soiled, not like the pristine purity of a Kathiawadi.

The easy, uncomplicated storyline is that Agni grew to become an agent after a surprising incident from childhood, when her mother and father had been shot by a person of whom she has a faint reminiscence of. Now, she is main the Company’s investigation of a trafficking ring operating out of central India, and reaching as much as Budapest (that retains popping up nearly like a yard to Bhopal) and a Sheikh with origins within the Center East.

Agni leads the search from Budapest to Bhopal and past, helped alongside by an area Bhopal resident Fazal (Sharib Hashmi, of The Household Man fame). Agni instantly finds herself pulled to his mother-less daughter Zaira, for apparent causes.

Nevertheless, what appeared like a fast extraction and termination operation seems to be not so easy, as Rudraveer and Rohini unleash carnage, helped by informers of their very own.

When the movie will get into twists-and-turns territory, and turns into a one-woman revenge saga, Dhaakad gives no surprises. We all know that no matter you may throw at Agni, she is going to bounce again, nevertheless inconceivable or unimaginable that’s.

If the movie’s first 20-odd minutes are rip-offs of Hollywood’s meeting line motion thrillers, the place individuals kill and die earlier than you have got even settled down on your popcorn, Dhaakad’s final 20 are an train in overkill.

That the center holds so effectively is a tribute to its actors, its efforts at giving us some human characters, and its story that trots alongside properly (credit score to debutant director and co-screenwriter Razneesh Ghai). At one place, we come to know of a medical situation the place an individual’s coronary heart is tilted extra in the direction of the fitting than regular, which saves their life. Dhaakad has its coronary heart in the fitting place.

Dhaakad film forged: Kangana Ranaut, Arjun Rampal, Divya Dutta, Sharib Hashmi, Saswata Chatterjee
Dhaakad film director: Razneesh Ghai
Dhaakad film score: 3.5 stars