Lot of fire and smoke and coal and charcoal and cold insipid breath has been exchanged but the word of mouth travelling everywhere is that Brothers is a poor man's version of Warriors with everyone hamming and nearly all the actors, barring Akshay doing a really bad job. Even the box office results are not too encouraging. With an Independence Day release, everyone thought this would reach the 100 crores mark swiftly but its taken its time to get within sniffing distance whereas Bahubali and Bajrangi Bhaijaan have sprinted to that mark at a break neck velocity.
Therefore the grapevine news is that Brothers is a little thanda. It has not exactly delivered!!!!
Well I am sorry to disappoint the people who have already leaped to this conclusion. Brothers, in my opinion is one of the best copies of a Hollywood movie to come for a long time. Yes it has it flaws but it works and roars and crackles and hits you at the right places. It builds up with a slow simmering dull slow first half but with some really hard hitting emotional scenes and then goes for the body blow on your solar plexus with a smashing second half and ends on a high note. Yes its derived from one of the best Combat movies of all times but the casting is bang on, except for an over-reactive overtly emotive Jaggu dada, all the others do a fairly good job. Well probably I ma asking for a lil too much from him. He can't exactly match up to Nick Nolte. But Akshay more than measures upto Joel Edgertone.
In fact - Akshay is brilliant - aging and getting better like wine. Aging...he is just ageless!!
Siddharth is a worthy contender. This boy has a great future if he plays his cards right.And he follows up his Ek Villain 'act' with a calm volcano act, which erupts sporadically.
Everyone else supports them magnificently with Ashutosh Rana playing his histrionics with spunk and Kiran Kumar coming across as a desi Don King. In short its a worthy Bollywood masala movie worth your time and money. Even the Kareena Kapoor "Mary" number works perfectly. Being positioned just before the interval after Siddharth wins his first fight and Akshay returns to comabt practice asking Ashutosh for one last chance as he needs the money to cover the medical costs to save his daughter's life. A cliched premise but watch Akshay cuddle up to his daughter on the hospital bed and make shadows with Jacqueline to cheer her up against the hospital room curtains. Brothers has its moments!!!!
The second half has everything, which the trailer promises. All the fights have the best action choreography ever put in a Bollywood movie. Siddharth is young and he really performs the fight scenes well but Akshay is an enigma. At this age he still shows who is the boss of Bollywood!!! Brilliant is an understatement for a man who joined this industry with a tagline " A stuntman who can act". Now he is more like an actor who still does his own stunts at this age.
I don't feel like talking much!!!!
Just watch BROTHERS!!! You will be rewarded. Its an entertaining piece of junk ready to be consumed wholeheartedly with popcorn and whistles galore.
Therefore the grapevine news is that Brothers is a little thanda. It has not exactly delivered!!!!
Well I am sorry to disappoint the people who have already leaped to this conclusion. Brothers, in my opinion is one of the best copies of a Hollywood movie to come for a long time. Yes it has it flaws but it works and roars and crackles and hits you at the right places. It builds up with a slow simmering dull slow first half but with some really hard hitting emotional scenes and then goes for the body blow on your solar plexus with a smashing second half and ends on a high note. Yes its derived from one of the best Combat movies of all times but the casting is bang on, except for an over-reactive overtly emotive Jaggu dada, all the others do a fairly good job. Well probably I ma asking for a lil too much from him. He can't exactly match up to Nick Nolte. But Akshay more than measures upto Joel Edgertone.
In fact - Akshay is brilliant - aging and getting better like wine. Aging...he is just ageless!!
Siddharth is a worthy contender. This boy has a great future if he plays his cards right.And he follows up his Ek Villain 'act' with a calm volcano act, which erupts sporadically.
Everyone else supports them magnificently with Ashutosh Rana playing his histrionics with spunk and Kiran Kumar coming across as a desi Don King. In short its a worthy Bollywood masala movie worth your time and money. Even the Kareena Kapoor "Mary" number works perfectly. Being positioned just before the interval after Siddharth wins his first fight and Akshay returns to comabt practice asking Ashutosh for one last chance as he needs the money to cover the medical costs to save his daughter's life. A cliched premise but watch Akshay cuddle up to his daughter on the hospital bed and make shadows with Jacqueline to cheer her up against the hospital room curtains. Brothers has its moments!!!!
The second half has everything, which the trailer promises. All the fights have the best action choreography ever put in a Bollywood movie. Siddharth is young and he really performs the fight scenes well but Akshay is an enigma. At this age he still shows who is the boss of Bollywood!!! Brilliant is an understatement for a man who joined this industry with a tagline " A stuntman who can act". Now he is more like an actor who still does his own stunts at this age.
I don't feel like talking much!!!!
Just watch BROTHERS!!! You will be rewarded. Its an entertaining piece of junk ready to be consumed wholeheartedly with popcorn and whistles galore.
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