Kabzaa Movie Review: Upendra, Sudeep star in KGF-lite film which questions your sensibility – India Today

R Chandru’s Kabzaa is a movie that loves bullets, weapons and beheaded males. Starring Upendra, Kichcha Sudeep and Shriya Saran, the movie is an unimpressive gangster drama that may be a hazard to your eardrums, says our evaluate.

Upendra and Kichcha Sudeep’s Kabzaa hit theatres on March 17.

By Janani Ok: Publish Yash’s KGF’s resounding success, gangster dramas have turn into a repeated style for filmmakers. And R Chandru’s Kabzaa doesn’t draw back from adapting KGF’s aesthetics. To an extent, it additionally adapts KGF’s story. And all through, you get a Deja Vu feeling whereas watching Upendra beheading males, killing one villain after one other.

Arkeshwaran is an Indian Air Power pilot and saint-like. He doesn’t even have the heart to admit his love for king Veer Bahadur’s daughter Madhumathi (Shriya Saran) to his mom. At some point, his brother Sankeswaran dies a tragic demise and will get beheaded. It’s an finish to Arkeswaran AKA Arka’s good days. His life takes a flip and he grows right into a lethal mafia head.

Kabzaa is 2 hours and 16 minutes and the Tamil dub model feels for much longer, because of the ridiculous dialogues. Proper from the get-go, the movie will remind you of Yash’s KGF. Ranging from the color tone to the enhancing sample, each single ingredient is impressed by Prashanth Neel-starrer. Kabzaa is a two-hour-long movie replete with shiny visuals, slo-mo pictures and lifeless males.

Chandru’s movie takes itself very severely. It masquerades as a movie that’s excessive on content material, however, on reflection, it has a wafer-thin storyline. As a substitute, the voice-over tells you what we already know. The movie is an instance of how a voice-over shouldn’t be used if it can’t elevate an already drowning story. Kabzaa is a movie that talks concerning the rise of a typical man in probably the most violent means doable.

All Arkeshwara will get is targets to kill each 20 minutes. We’re launched to many villains at frequent intervals and Arka kills them in a jiffy. Both he walks round with the heads of the beheaded males or with pistols in his hand. Each single battle will get resolved in a couple of minutes and, due to this, we’re hardly invested within the story. We additionally see Arka making an attempt to make our hearts soften together with his romance with Madhumathi. However, you find yourself staring on the display screen with zero expression in your face. Be it motion or romance, nothing truly excites you.

Kabzaa suffers from predictability. It takes a formulaic route and the characterisation of the caricaturish villains doesn’t add as much as the story. On prime of that, one of many villains performed by Nawab Shah has a tattoo that reads ‘merciless.’ Questioning what it means? It’s a cue so that you can be afraid of him.

The much less mentioned concerning the performances by Upendra, Sudeep and Shriya Saran, the higher. There is no such thing as a redeemable high quality about Kabzaa besides the ‘shock’ within the climax, which provides a result in the sequel. The sequence is tastefully finished regardless of being fairly predictable.

Ravi Basrur, who made heads flip together with his fascinating music in KGF, will make you go deaf with Kabzaa. In a scene, Upendra’s Arka says, ‘I’m allergic to noise. I choose silence.’ Upendra, we really feel you!

Kabzaa might have been one other KGF for the Kannada movie trade. However, it finally ends up being a laughing inventory.

1.5 stars out of 5 stars for Kabzaa.