(Straight copy of Mississippi Burning)
When you go wrong, you go overboard – seems like the mantra of once good directors in Bollywood. Similar to Prakash Jha, Priyadarshan who did deliver films like KalaPani, Virasat and Gardish; delivered only promise and a great miss through Aakrosh. This film has everything, right from topics like Honor Killing, Caste fights, Feudal lords, Masala, Item Songs, over-the-top action and one man army style heroism. The lack of real and packed storyline will only disappoint you.
The failure starts with camera(s) and frames. You will notice a different treatment of scenes throughout the films. Looks like that the songs and action sequences are shot by two different directors. The opening was shaky and thrilling but lacked the camera control and overall focus of the story. Priyadarshan seems to lose its touch after the continuous churning of brainless comedy. After Hera-Pheri, we are still waiting a great movie from the master. Unnecessary casting of Bipasha Basu and Sameera Reddy (just one sick item number) proves that the producers wanted some sexism in form of these two dusky ladies. They forget that Bipasha basu minus makeup is still worse because she never acted and never can. She cannot even deliver the rustic approach required by the script. Unjustifiable songs are another miss and a total wastage of quite a long saga.
The exaggerated action sequences were not at all required. They just helped in killing the mood further. The art director along with the designer was wasted to show Bipasha in a skimpy outfit in past and a rustic, down to earth typical wife wrapped in sari as well. The story has many flaws like, just after the wet rainy song, its shown that the village never had rain since 2 years and farmers are facing draught like situation. There was no Dalit political leader, One CBI officer in the team, small village but a very large police force, Beating media persons in public without any fear, sub-inspector is shown carrying pistols and weapons and equipped with many government cars and gypsy’s …… there are many to recall.
Though inspired from Ranbir-sena, Shool-sena is shown without its counterpart – Naxalites. The Jehanabad shootings and killings was copied to the silver screen but lacked the horror and emotions. The marketing of this movie was done primarily on recent Khap killings or Honor killings, but the story was loosely inspired from Mississippi burning.
When I saw the duo of Akshay khanna and Ajay Devgan, where one is calm and the other is hard boiled hot blooded, suddelnly Gene Hackman and William Defoe striked my mind. The Bhatt again copied and got inspired from 1988 hollywood movie. The “Ku Klux Klan” was modified into Shool-sena after a dirty cocktail of Ranbir-Sena of Bihar. It’s a shame on the legendry Priyadarshan. The whole sequence of Bipasha exposing her husband, the fight between the two leads, then an agreement to work together, private part's castration – Nasbandi, to the fight in the saloon with a razor, the sentences and the verdicts are straight lifted from this American crime drama. There was even a scene loosely copied from classic Mirch-Masala.
This copy got worse by the love story of Ajay Devgan and Bipasha who is playing wife of Paresh (Villain).
The whole movie might look good to those never exposed to cinema and reality. An utter disappointment. Though Akshay Khanna and Ajay Devgan did their best and they delivered very well together. Instead; I would recommend you to buy a DVD of Oscar winning Mississippi Burning than wasting your money to this flop copy.
A total of NEGATIVE STARS.
2 comments:
Flaws pointed out are good...just to add In english TOI we have news in Hindi and few i forgot:) Bipasha's casting is same as Katrina's in All Akshay movies or Aishwarya in ROBOT :)
but if u think beating up camera-man & police force story is a fake pls visit the place itself or may be sm other village i can name (if at all u r interested) this happens and will happen may be because we will critically review the camera work & forget the Topic(how loose it may be). Nicely Written but there was nothing about the Story..which is the highlight...I dont think Mississippi Burning will make us aware about Honour Killing :)
Ya , you said well. But in Mississippi burning the KKK also did kill for honors but the cause was different. Even the dialogues were copied, that s why i never cared about the story (Plagiarism).
And to tell you, Media gets beaten time 2 time but they escalate it too much and here it was taken as granted.
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