Short of it:
*Enjoyable
*Better then most Bollywood movies (and Hollywood movies for that matter)
*Good performance _BY ALL_
*Thrilling (leaves you with your mouth open at times) lots of twists
*Drags near the end (God!! When will the movie end?) _BUT_ the ending is WOW
*One complete hour without any song
*Ajay Devgan has matured (You have to be good more then once before someone says you have matured as an actor)
*Has the obvious minor problems with continuity and weakness of plot at times.
As the cliché goes 'last but not the least' *Aisa Jadoo ;-)
If you can tell the story of a Hindi movie one hour into the future because you have seen a lot of then there is not spoiler here otherwise --A lil Spoiler--
I liked the fact that Minister Deodhar alludes to Modi the CM of Gujrat. The story in essence has some mild truth to it about a real minister trying to use communal riots to his own advantage. What is amusing is the movie starts with the "... entirely fictional story and resemblance is incidental..." kind of line. Needless to say that the director is talking about politicians in general and the comparison with Modi that I've put here is from own hate for the man. Another good was the good light in which Muslims are shown.
About the ending - The character of Sub Inspector Ashwin Gupte is worth following. He starts out as an enthusiastic young man of strict principles. Stays a man of principles when he says he will quit the job after this assignment - but has lost his enthusiasm. In the end while he arguably still is with the good side he has lost his sense of strict principles too. The entire movie is against taking law into your own hands but what about the ending? The message changes to - you are justified to give your own judgement if you are absolutely sure of it. Fine with me, but is it not the start of path towards breaking the law... I loved the ending anyway.
6/10 I'd say.
*Enjoyable
*Better then most Bollywood movies (and Hollywood movies for that matter)
*Good performance _BY ALL_
*Thrilling (leaves you with your mouth open at times) lots of twists
*Drags near the end (God!! When will the movie end?) _BUT_ the ending is WOW
*One complete hour without any song
*Ajay Devgan has matured (You have to be good more then once before someone says you have matured as an actor)
*Has the obvious minor problems with continuity and weakness of plot at times.
As the cliché goes 'last but not the least' *Aisa Jadoo ;-)
If you can tell the story of a Hindi movie one hour into the future because you have seen a lot of then there is not spoiler here otherwise --A lil Spoiler--
I liked the fact that Minister Deodhar alludes to Modi the CM of Gujrat. The story in essence has some mild truth to it about a real minister trying to use communal riots to his own advantage. What is amusing is the movie starts with the "... entirely fictional story and resemblance is incidental..." kind of line. Needless to say that the director is talking about politicians in general and the comparison with Modi that I've put here is from own hate for the man. Another good was the good light in which Muslims are shown.
About the ending - The character of Sub Inspector Ashwin Gupte is worth following. He starts out as an enthusiastic young man of strict principles. Stays a man of principles when he says he will quit the job after this assignment - but has lost his enthusiasm. In the end while he arguably still is with the good side he has lost his sense of strict principles too. The entire movie is against taking law into your own hands but what about the ending? The message changes to - you are justified to give your own judgement if you are absolutely sure of it. Fine with me, but is it not the start of path towards breaking the law... I loved the ending anyway.
6/10 I'd say.