Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan movie review: A tired, unimaginative amalgamation of every Salman Khan version – The Indian Express

So what concerning the worthies that come and go, each time Bhai wants a break from going solo, straggly lengthy locks blowing about his face? There’s Pooja Hegde as Bhagyalaxmi, his romantic curiosity, who’s about the one one who manages to carry her personal. The remainder are a blur. There’s Sidharth Nigam-Raghav Juyal-Jassi Gill as Bhai’s youthful brothers. There’s Shehnaaz Gill-Palak Tiwari-Vinali Bhatnagar, as their girlfriends. These are to be seen solely in clusters of three, or six, relying upon the requirement of the scene.

There’s the Southern contingent, within the form of Venkatesh (former rowdy turned saintly non-violent kind) and Jagapathi Babu (growly villain with a thousand henchmen), safely tucked away within the post-interval part, by which era Bhaijaan has had sufficient time to show his commonplace totems: the Bhai stroll, arms akimbo; the Bhai bracelet, with that azure stone; the Bhai line, which given these occasions, is doused in patriotism.

There’s Vijender Singh, the real-life boxer turned out as essentially the most ineffective baddie Bollywood has produced in a very long time. There’s the late Satish Kaushik, sadly wasted. Rohini Hattangadi exhibits up as a matriarch, and presides over the senseless mayhem that ensues within the second half. That’s to not say that the primary half is any higher; whoever’s written this factor has made positive that it’s going to not get any scripting awards.

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That’s not all. Two of Salman’s main girls, Bhagyashree and Bhumika Chawla, are right here, the primary fleetingly, the second with a bit extra display screen time. What operate do they fulfil aside from reminding us of the 2 blockbusters (Maine Pyaar Kiya and Tere Naam) he did with them? These girls are additionally nothing however totems. Duh.

In his earlier movies, Salman no less than had names — Prem being the preferred — and Bhaijaan was simply the moniker his besotted followers bestowed upon him. On this newest outing, a remake of the 2014 Tamil-language ‘Veeram’, such niceties have been disbursed with, as a result of, a) what’s in a reputation? And b) who cares, everybody is aware of it’s Bhaijaan, proper? However names have weight: the final time a Salman movie had Bhaijan within the title, its prefix was ‘Bajrangi’, and that stable Kabir Khan movie had, verily, a narrative. This Bhaijaan is working on empty.

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Even at that climactic second when the shirt is about to be taken off, as a result of it’s that point, there’s no pleasure: this Bhaijaan is a drained, unimaginative amalgamation of each Bhaijaan model we’ve seen. Was that brief however propulsive look in ‘Pathaan’ a mirage, or a perfectly-timed walk-on half inserted cleverly, and mockingly, into the correct spot?

You do know the difficulty with legends? They wane.

Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan film solid: Salman Khan
Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan film director: Farhad Samji
Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan film score: 1 star