Movie Review: Agneepath

Here's a hurried review using my mobile while on vacation in Goa, just so I might be able to help you do something better with your weekend...

Avoid Agneepath. Unless loud and excessive violence, savagery, child molestations and a completely 80s brand of movie making with the typical "villain kidnaps hero's family, stabs him a dozen times, but ultimately hero gets maa ki shakti and kills the baddy" story line excites you.

Gone is the classiness, the finesse and subtlety, high quality sfx and understated drama, gone is the powerful storytelling and characterization of modern Bollywood movies. Karan takes a huge step back borrowing lock, stock and barrel from the worst of the angry young man era, and churns out a movie that shocks you not with the message, but with the movie making.

Sanjay Dutt looks like a sad chemo patient with shaved eyebrows, mouthing what can only be called filmy dialogues. Hrithik hams over the top with his bad good boy image. Priyanka comes across as a sidey low paid extra, Katrina takes a huge step back from her classy image to someone who has to flash her bosom to get attention, and only Rishi Kapoor shows some mettle.

The direction, story, screenplay all vie to disappoint, the soundtrack is eminently forgettable, and the only thing you take away from the disaster is a throbbing headache.