(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) To give due credit to the young boy who used to smile at you from the pages of film magazines some two decades ago as a cute little kid tiger does full justice to his role to the best of his ability.
what is with bollywood that it must turn for inspiration to mass masala south indian movies on a relentless scale? heropanti a remake of the telugu film parugu starring allu arjun serves no purpose than to showcase tiger shroff the son of jackie shroff as a veritable all-rounder who fights dances looks dreamy-eyed and also tries to act.
and to give due credit to the young boy who used to smile at you from the pages of film magazines some two decades ago as a cute little kid tiger does full justice to his role to the best of his ability. indeed he has unconventional looks and conventional talent.
but what jackie and the film’s director sabbir khan (of the terrible kambakkht ishq-fame) failed to note is that copy-pasting telugu movies in a north indian setting does not make an absorbing movie.
even the more talented priyadarshan could not get the sensibilities right with rangrezz the hindi remake of nadodigal and so it comes as no surprise that a similar tale of friendship love and honour killing becomes even less engaging in the hands of sabbir khan.
heropanti is a film that serves you no surprises. it challenges logic and is even regressive at times. other than tiger who plays bablu (yes you heard it right) no other character is fleshed out. even when it comes to bablu all we know is that the guy is some sort of a one-man army. much later into the movie we are told that he is a rebel who consistently says ‘no’ to his dad. but apart from that we know little else.
after being abducted by the goons of choudhary (prakash raj) a local goon and landlord to extract information about renu (sandeepa) his daughter who has eloped bablu discovers that the girl he has decided to love (after being smitten at first sight) is none other than choudhary’s younger daughter dimpy (kriti sanon).
choudhary his goons dimpy bablu and his friends are then seen scouting delhi for renu. in between the search several ‘dream songs’ half a dozen stunts an attempted rape and a lot more is unloaded on the hapless viewers.
sabbir khan never really realises that presenting bablu as a one-man-fighting machine who dances and dreams is not enough to make a captivating movie.
there has to be an emotional quotient which is terribly misplaced in the movie even with the parental love versus friendship versus romantic love debate that sees prakash raj going overboard with his emoting.
heropanti tries to evoke the charm of hero (jackie shroff’s debut directed by subhash ghai). but what it lacks is a strong romantic core.
the love story of bablu and dimpy could not have been more far-fetched and forced and seriously if a guy falls for a girl is it still a given in bollywood that she must reciprocate his feelings?
heropanti is just another launch vehicle for a star-kid and mercifully enough tiger might be spared of the ‘wooden actor’ tag that plagued jackie for a quite a while in his initial days as actor. the boy has talent but to give it the deserved gleam and shine it takes a superbly talented director.
a bad remake of a bad south indian movie is not the ticket to superstardom or overnight success.
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