Baaghi is Tezaab meets karate Kid. Why? The movie opens with Ronny’s ex being kidnapped and her father asking Ronny to get her back (Remember Lothia Pathan?). With Baaghi, Tiger Shroff comes back with another Action Thriller after Heropanti. And it is no different than the first one. Except that this one takes on Salman Khan’s hit 90s movie instead of his father’s.
Baaghi Movie Review
For all the ‘Rebel’ hue and cry, the movie never tells you why Ronny (Tiger Shroff) or Sia (Shraddha Kapoor) are rebels. They don’t appear to do or have done anything against the norms to be looked at as rebels – at least at the time when the Guruji (Grandmaster Shifuji Shaurya Bharadwaj) refers to as a rebel. So Baaghi title to the movie is a bust.
So here is the story in a nutshell. Raghav is a martial arts champion living in Bangkok. He is the son of Guruji, who runs a martial arts school in Kerala. Sia is a hopeful actress and is traveling with her family to Kerala. She meets Ronny on the train and they eventually fall in love. Only Shraddha Kapoor and Tiger Shroff have zero on-screen chemistry. So as far as the ‘Romance’ or ‘Love Story’ angle goes, the movie fails badly.
But hey, the movie is an action movie and you need a reason to fight someone. The romance satisfies that need. Now coming to the action part of the movie. The audiences are given a very short course in martial arts training with emphasis on how martial arts traveled to China from Kerala. Bu that is where the pride of Indian martial arts ends.
Baaghi: A Rebel For Love (2016)
Director: Sabir Khan
Stars: Shraddha Kapoor, Tiger Shroff, Sudheer Babu Posani
I was all too eager to know all about the famous Kalaripayattu moves and how they are executed. But the movie doesn’t seem to focus on that at all. But then, you cant really expect Indian movies to do any real research or take an effort to make something from scratch. The action sequences are run-of -the-mill with awkward pauses due to poor editing. At one time, when Raghav jumps off a building with the aid of a fire hose, you can easily spot that the actor in floating in the air when he should not have. Any moments of interest or engagement are purely because of the high adrenaline background music that is almost playing all the time.
The character of taxi driver and his side-kick in Bangkok doesn’t contribute to the story in any way other than a couple of cheap laughs and I fail to see why that character exists at all.
In spite of its simple storyline, average acting, and forced action sequences which didn’t really fit into the flow, the movie seems to appeal to the masses as we had a room full of young audience hooting and egging Tiger on to fight and spill some blood.
Although the movie looks appealing, and that there aren’t any other choices this week, I wouldn’t advise you spend your hard earned money on two hours of Baaghi – which actually seem a lot more than that. The movie is much more like watching a playback of a video game like Doom than lively actors bringing the stage alive.
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