SALMAN KHAN’S hero character has a fight scene against the villain’s henchmen less than five minutes after the movie begins, and it’s all too obvious how everything will end.
Salman is introduced in a superstar style and its no less than a grand entry with action stunts, along with his long hair (or is it a wig?) flying stylishly, before he delivers cheesy dialogue and fights the bad guys, who work for the villain Mahavir (Vijender Singh).
Salman’s character Bhaijaan has three ‘brothers’. Originally orphans, Bhaijaan saved them all from a fire at the orphanage where they grew up. Since then, they vowed to support each other, and to never get married because they believe women would ruin their relationship.
Bhaijaan kept the promise, but the others did not. They have all found themselves beautiful girlfriends but they are afraid to tell Bhaijaan. So, they come up with a funny plan to find Bhaijaan a girlfriend, which would make it easier for him to accept their relationships.
Enter Bhagya (Pooja Hegde), who falls for Bhaijaan, very quickly. Bhagya’s brother, Balakrishna Gundamaneni (Venkatesh) and the rest of her family live in South India.
Her brother hates violence but he has an enemy, Nageshwar Kodathi (Jagapathi Babu), who wants to take revenge against Bhagya and the entire family.
Kodathi eventually seeks the help of Mahavir in Mumbai to eliminate Venkatesh and his entire family, but Bhaijaan saves Pooja.
Mahavir and Kodathi soon join hands after realising they have a common enemy: Bhaijaan. From here on, the movie is filled with blood, action, and comedy scenes, with a number of songs and dances.
It’s pretty much what you can expect from Salman Khan. A light-hearted movie, a family drama with lots of comedy, upbeat songs, choreographed dances, stunts, action, revenge, and more simply put, it’s a ‘masala movie’, and so it has a bit of everything.
In terms of storyline, there is nothing extraordinary or unexpected to look forward to.
A few action scenes will make you sit up and notice, but no particular scene is really outstanding. The love story between Bhaijaan and Bhagya is quite funny, and perhaps songs like Yentamma and Balle Balle are worth listening to.
It’s sufficient to say that it’s another run-of-the-mill kind of movie. Some parts of the story seem like they have been taken from, or inspired by, other Hindi or South Indian movies.
As per his acting, Salman is in his usual element. Comedy and action scenes are his ‘forte’. In some parts, the 57-year-old actor looks good. Satish Kaushik – a comedy actor who recently passed away – is funny, and Jagapathi looks stylish and played the villain character well.
Venkatesh’s role has a little surprise element at the end; Pooja looks lovely, but none of the other roles have anything really interesting to talk about.
A surprising feature was when actress Bhagyashree (popular in the 1990s) made a special appearance as Bhaijaan’s previous girlfriend. Movie clips from Salman’s blockbuster movie released in 1989, Maine Pyar Kiya, in which the two co-starred, are shown.
Another part that gives us a little surprise (if you did not watch the song on YouTube) was when actor Ram Charan (who starred in the RRR movie) appears at the tail end of the Yentamma song.
In conclusion, it’s just a below-average movie. If you are a Salman Khan fan, then you would love this movie; otherwise, you could give this a miss.
Oh, there is one more thing! When the credits roll, a song is played with the cast dancing in South Indian attire to a song. The strange part is that the lyrics are taken from children’s rhymes, from Twinkle, twinkle little star to Mary had a little lamb. All the lyrics are in English except for the chorus in Indian language.
This makes me wonder. Why on earth would anyone write a song with such lyrics? Did the songwriter run out of ideas? They could have written lyrics in either Hindi or Telegu, as some of the actors are from the Telegu film industry.
It was just a bad idea!
-> Director: Farhad Samji
-> Cast: Salman Khan, Pooja Hegde, Venkatesh, Jagapathi Babu
E-VALUE: 4
ACTING: 3
PLOT: 2
