Zanjeer (2013) Reviews

• Please stop making disrespectful remakes of our reputed classics.

  bobbysing2013-09-08

  Talking about this latest addition in this questionable trend of re- visiting the Classics, it will be a big disrespect towards Prakash Mehra, Amitabh Bachchan, Pran & Jaya Bachchan's original ZANJEER if I even go for writing a few paragraphs on this Apoorav Lakhia's ridiculous version. So instead of a review I will mention some great features of this well publicized project and then you can decide on your own that whether you wish to take it as a description of a film or a JOKE loudly cracked by its makers in a proud style. 1. The film opens with a long credits song showing a half naked lady, which straight away puts you off as far as the excitement factor is concerned. 2. Within next three minutes you have a fight sequence of Ram Charan with the background music of "Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram" going in a vague manner, which keeps on playing in the entire film as if its a patriotic venture made by the likes of Jha. 3. Priyanka Chopra enters with dance sequence in the Pinki song, whereas in the script she is supposed to be a well educated NRI girl visiting India for a friend's marriage. 4. Including the credits track, the film features five songs before the interval quite absurdly. 5. Prakash Raj plays Teja in his repetitive style and Mahie Gill is Mona playing it like a silly girl knowing only one thing, i.e. Mona aur Sona (Completely clueless why did she even opt for it in the first place). 6. In one scene of the film, both Teja & Mona are sitting on a couch watching the original ZANJEER scenes of Ajeet and Bindu together. And here Mahie (Mona) says to Teja (Prakash Raj), "Tumhara Chehra Is Teja Se (Ajeet) Kitna Milta Hai?????" Indeed a great insightful thought in a remake. 7. In another scene Mona comes in with a tablet pack for Teja on which its written VIGRA. 8. Sher Khan (Sanjay Dutt) deals in stolen cars and a garage doing their makeovers?? 9. Both Vijay (Ram Charan) and Sher Khan (Sanjay Dutt) are shown playing play station games sitting on the same couch in one scene. 10. One of the most bizarre sequences in the film is when Ram Charan straight away drives his car into the slum crashing into people's homes and crushes them blindly like a mad man. Now he is a suspended ACP who does not really care that there are poor people including old, women, children and animals too living in that congested slum area. And he drives a good distance right into the slums with bombs exploding side by side????? 11. In the climax scene, when Teja's hand is covered by his shirt's sleeve then he simply pulls it up deliberately so that Vijay can see the tattoo on his arm and remember his parents murder! 12. Moreover, what can be said about the below average mediocre qawaali which has been added on the lines of the incomparable "Yaari Hai Imaan Mera" so lavishly. 13. Last but not the least, there is one particular dialogue in the film which is disgustingly written in a cheap manner just to bring in that kinky humor pointing towards the sexual relationship between Teja and Mona, which I find highly disgraceful to even mention in this write-up very frankly. Reading the above mentioned points myself, I don't think there is anything else required to write about this complete avoidable movie made by a questionable creative team. Putting it bluntly, this is not the work of any film-makers to be precise, but only a planned marketing product by some businessmen who are just looking for a project to get them fair returns. And in the process, they damn care about any respect for the original or creative aspects of the remake which is clearly visible throughout the film till the end. Anyway, what disturbs me the most after watching such nonsensical and not-required kind of remakes is the impact they are bound to make on the current generation, who haven't watched those famous original classics ever before. To give you a clear idea, just try to imagine what would come to the minds of young boys & girls in the age group of 16-30 years, after watching this brainless new age version of ZANJEER? Unarguably they would think that, "Was this the one movie which turned the 'not-in-demand' Amitabh Bachchan into the 'much-in-demand' angry young man of the 70s?". And "Was this the movie which became a cult hit, making way for a new trend in that decade, without having anything substantial in its storyline, content or execution?" No doubt there questions all seem to be logical but the point is that, "Who would make them aware of the painful anguish felt in the eyes of its original characters in Prakash Mehra's version of the 70s?" "Who would make them aware of the landmark confrontation scenes between Vijay and the delightful Sher Khan in a fabulous get-up? "Who will make them feel the subtle romance between the helpless Jaya and Vijay?" "Who will introduce them to the cunning enigma enjoyed for years around Ajeet and Mona Darling?" "Who will bring forward the "real friendship" depicted on screen in those years so impressively?" and…… "Who will make them listen to the memorable ageless track, "Yaari Hai Imaan Mera, Yaar Meri Zindagi" which still forces all to dance and feel the magic of music and relationships together?" I hope somebody takes that step and brings back the magic once again on the silver screen soon. May be, by taking an initiative of organizing "Exclusive Classics Festivals" at some selected theaters like they used to in the 80s. But even if it doesn't happen, we still have got our DVDs at home, so please spare us and stop making such disrespectful remakes of all our loved, reputed classics.

• Disappointing movie

  livyatnair2013-09-08

  This movie was a total let down--about 2 hours of this movie is just watching the ACP beat up everyone and that is supposed to portray the "angry young man" part. This movie seems to assume that everyone watching it has actually watched the original Zanjeer. So, if like me, you haven't watched it you're wondering whats so special about Sher Khan. And you are also left wondering why his name seems to be the best bet out of the millions of criminals in Mumbai, to be the one responsible for the oil mafia incident. And then you are even more bewildered when the ACP turns up at Sher Khan's office and they both start fighting without having said a word (like it was a pre-ordained thing!). The editing of the movie should have been better as twice during one of Monas songs you have ample opportunity to see her innerwear. Mona plays the vapid woman of the deadly oil mafia Teja (played by Prakash Jha). In the whole movie, his acting is the best. He plays the part of the villain effortlessly. The character of Mala, played by Priyanka Chopra is a minor one. She is first involved in the whole movie because she saw a murder and then after having spent a night at the ACPs house decides that she;s fallen in love with him. Of course in Hindi movies one doesn't always expect logical succession of thoughts but her falling in love is super instant. Priyanka Chopra is too old to play this chatty, twenties sort of girl who just keeps jabbering like a teenager. Definitely not worth spending 3 hours over.

• Very Very Lame

  iftikharshahzada2013-10-05

  After seeing this movie I don't get it why such good actors and veterans such as Sanjay Dutt would do this movie seriously whatever the reason maybe it was a waste of their time. The newbie actor should have been given a much better intro than this movie. The writer whatever he wrote wasn't bad enough that the director took the remains of the lameness and sealed up the movie. The direction was very amateur remaking of a classic movie I think that the original makers of the movie must have just fainted. I need to ask the director myself that in the movie where Ram Charan first encounters with Sanjay Dutt without no reason Ram goes to Sanjay's place and starts fighting like did he have some sort of a preminition or what???? I mean what was that??? that's not direction that a huge flaw. There are many scenes that don't just add up and the whole movie was just a very waste of time. Two item songs were provided which obviously were thought that they will keep the ball rolling but they failed pathetically as for even an item song to go along the story and direction need to support the whole movie. The rest best of luck to the new actor Ram as you really need to make sure and pick your scripts by really getting into character I know I don't need to teach your acting but this is just a tip but for the director you need to still go through some more direction courses.

• Zanjeer-The torment of my life

  sarah-azher-khan2013-09-12

  Just when you thought that there is some good left in the world, the movie Zanjeer punches you hard and brings you face to face with the disastrous disaster of Hindi Cinema. Pushed by circumstances ,in my case an exam of General Pharmacology, one usually goes to a place faraway and happy, also dark, and so did I. My friends and I, we ended up in a theatre. Wasn't zero cars in the parking, or no people in the vicinity or the lifelessness of the Theatre enough to scare us off? Obviously Not. One ticket worth 130 Rupees, and we barged into a hall full of nothing but an ogre-face sprawled all over the large screen. That was the defining moment when we knew that the coming 3 hours of our lives were in vague danger, but being a Desi breed we didn't turn back. 130 Rupees ka sawal tha. The initial shock of an atrociously hideous protagonist or an awfully dumb Priyanka Chopra was nothing. There was so much more they had in store for the scanty audience. A hag-faced Sanjay Dutt who insisted on wearing nothing but colours that could sore your eyes for a century, a nauseating woman named Mona, a dark and gross villain with massive one-liner-failures, a dizzy sound- track, a horrific and passé story-line, a dance step that looked pretty much like an epileptic seizure, a 150-minutes-of-my-life-never-coming- back later here I am thanking the almighty that I am alive. Barely. Only one bearable ending could've come out of this traumatic movie, if that mutant-lips-cop shot himself in the end, and the screen splattered with his pathetic blood. Or not. No way on Earth can this be a better movie, because this is it, the worst movie I have watched in my lifetime. I am scarred for life. Rating this movie in stars? I wouldn't rate this in bullshits.

• headache

  jaypatel72013-09-06

  Its not worth spending even 2 hours. I don't know, what do people think for making such movies. Priyanka is also disappointing with her choice of movie and performance in the same. And who is that hero, I do not know the name exactly, he is not looking like a hero from any angle. Such kind of movies are spoiling the bollywood's image on people. Bollywood should ban these kind of movie. Even censor board should not allow such crap to release,because its not worth spending a single penny. For a case, if someone give me 1000 rs and ask me to watch, I would voluntarily deny the offer. many critics has given zero rating to this movie, which i think high rating for this movie.