This Diwali week has seen the release of two much awaited Hindi movies. Here is my review of one of them - Shivaay.
Shivaay tells the story of a daredevil mountaineer who falls in love with a Bulgarian tourist and the story traces what happens afterwards. The movie has lots of elements like love, father - daughter relationship and action thrown in. While there is a love story it has not been very well developed in the movie. You do not get how the two characters fall in love. The father - daughter relationship that has been shown is good but it too lacks a good storytelling due to which you are not very engaged in the relationship. The action sequences are all over the top but the movie fails to explain how the mountaineer is able to beat up so many guys at once. Does he know any martial art? No idea. Poor scripting and screenplay has once again let down a movie which could have been great. Barring the last 30 minutes, the movie is not very engaging and thus the audience is lost at what is happening in the first 2 hours and 20 minutes. The story is certainly new, but it has been told very poorly. The problem is that there is very poor connectivity between one scene and the next. The scenes seem to start abruptly due to which the audience is a bit lost about what is happening.
The actors on this movie have done a poor job. Ajay Devgn has not done justice to himself as an actor, but with so much action thrown in it was bound to happen as he is also donning the role of a director. He has not been able to handle his multiple roles and responsibilities in this movie. The other actors also have done an ok job but nothing to remember.
Ajay Devgn as the actor is bad, but he as the director is worse. This is his second movie as a director but he has not been able to bring the intensity required in the scenes. Poor script has also not helped him.
The music of the movie is average with the best of the lot being Bolo Har Har. This song has been effectively used in almost all action scenes. Background music of the movie also not very great. The only good thing bout the movie are the locations where they have been shot, and they have been shot beautifully. The action is very good and the stunts have not been seen before. However the movie has a lot of VFX, a lot of which appears tacky.
Overall what could have been a great movie turns out to be a dull affair. Watch this movie only if you do not have anything better to do.
Rating - 2.5 / 5 (I was thinking of giving this movie 2 stars. However I gave an extra .5 for the last half hour.)
Shivaay tells the story of a daredevil mountaineer who falls in love with a Bulgarian tourist and the story traces what happens afterwards. The movie has lots of elements like love, father - daughter relationship and action thrown in. While there is a love story it has not been very well developed in the movie. You do not get how the two characters fall in love. The father - daughter relationship that has been shown is good but it too lacks a good storytelling due to which you are not very engaged in the relationship. The action sequences are all over the top but the movie fails to explain how the mountaineer is able to beat up so many guys at once. Does he know any martial art? No idea. Poor scripting and screenplay has once again let down a movie which could have been great. Barring the last 30 minutes, the movie is not very engaging and thus the audience is lost at what is happening in the first 2 hours and 20 minutes. The story is certainly new, but it has been told very poorly. The problem is that there is very poor connectivity between one scene and the next. The scenes seem to start abruptly due to which the audience is a bit lost about what is happening.
The actors on this movie have done a poor job. Ajay Devgn has not done justice to himself as an actor, but with so much action thrown in it was bound to happen as he is also donning the role of a director. He has not been able to handle his multiple roles and responsibilities in this movie. The other actors also have done an ok job but nothing to remember.
Ajay Devgn as the actor is bad, but he as the director is worse. This is his second movie as a director but he has not been able to bring the intensity required in the scenes. Poor script has also not helped him.
The music of the movie is average with the best of the lot being Bolo Har Har. This song has been effectively used in almost all action scenes. Background music of the movie also not very great. The only good thing bout the movie are the locations where they have been shot, and they have been shot beautifully. The action is very good and the stunts have not been seen before. However the movie has a lot of VFX, a lot of which appears tacky.
Overall what could have been a great movie turns out to be a dull affair. Watch this movie only if you do not have anything better to do.
Rating - 2.5 / 5 (I was thinking of giving this movie 2 stars. However I gave an extra .5 for the last half hour.)
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