ONCE UPON Ay TIME IN MUMBAI   DOBARAA- Film Review

 

 

 

Starring:- Akshay Kumar, Imran Khan, Sonakshi Sinha

Director:- Milan Luthria

 

Once upon a time there was a king, and his loyal pawn. The king fell in love with a young n beautiful butterfly, the butterfly would flutter (as her nature demands) from one flower to another, from the king to the pawn’s shoulder, before she realizes the difference between them, it is too late and all hell broke loose, the king would kill the pawn as he tried to steal something that his master thought belonged to him. But the story does not end as you would like to, the power of loyalty stands between the power of love and thus so realizes the King in the end.

Comparisons are inevitable for sequels; hence if OUATIM was about the rise of a rogue and maniac gangster, dobaraa is about the love of the same maniac who has become an undisputed underworld Don. But this time around the film lacks a punch! It has all the ingredients of its prequel tangy background score (which is lifted as it is from the earlier one), Rajat Arora’s seeti maru dialogues like aadmi ki peene ki capacity, jeene ki intensity, aur bank balance kabhi kam nahi hona chahiya. or Subah ki pahli local se aur raat ke aakhri botal tak uska naam likh do. They become little overdose and unnecessary at times, but the sequel lags behind the prequel in its intensity quotient.

Akshay Kumar being one of the most honest and hardworking actor in the industry has put in lot of effort in his expressions, body language and dialogue baazi but his mean act although good, is no match for Ajay’s confidence & finesse. The other setback of the film is the pace at which the story moves and delays coming to the main plot in the process dedicating small episodes to sketch the characters of two main leads ( Shoaib’s match fixing episode and Aslam’s chase sequence.) 

The story drags (with songs mostly used as fillers).  Imraan although looks cute and acts well, but lacks the roughness and mischief of Hashmi. Sonashshi’s dumb act is good and the lady gets couple of nicely written lines at the end to showcase different shades of her character. The relationship between Imraan and Sonakshi has some light moments but her character is not well sketched by the writer and one does not get to know her love interest till the very end (may be that was the catch!)

The villainous track of Mahesh Manjrekar is funny and do not inculcate fear of any sort ( its where an underworld film cannot afford to make the nemesis of their main character as funny!). Sonali Bendre returns after a long time and gives a very good measured performance. It was nice to see the old pair of Sonali and Akshay sharing screen after long time. The films offers Ektaa’s favorite Vidya Balan in blink and miss appearance.

All in all OUATIMD is like Mumbai’s favorite Vada Paav that you order after you loved the first one, but unfortunately this one is little baasa.!

 

Score Stack Up:-

+ ive:-  Catchy Dialogues, decent performances and Music.

-  ive:-  lacks intensity and a little drag

 

 

 

Box Office, Paisa Vasool Rating:- 3 out of 5

Tanmay's Rating : 2.7 out of 5

 

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Scores Classifications- 

(5)  Very Good, Must Watch 

(4)   Good, Should Watch 

(3)   Not Bad;

(2)  One Time Watch; 

(1)  On your own risk;