REVIEW : Follow The Cinema Company
Gunday is a typical Bollywood mass masala movie that take cues from many Hindi movies from the 1980's. With enough punch line dialogues and couple of twists in the offering, the film assure entertainment and fun.
An action and comedy filled drama, story starts from the 1970's where the Bangladesh Liberation War ended leading many people homeless. The story unfold from here where two young boys with no one to go for begins their friendship journey and lands up in Calcutta.
Bikram and Bala decide to sell Coal stolen from train and makes it big becoming Coal Bandits of Calcutta. They deal in every black trade that happen in Calcutta and takes control of the place becoming powerful Gundays who are unstoppable. The romantic angle has Nandita, a cabaret dancer and the interesting part is both the friends have a crush on her.
Now to break their friendship and to destroy their empire, enter ACP Satyajit Sarkar. The way it has been done, it makes us remember some of the hit movies like RGV's Company where the police officer create rift between the two dons and here in Gunday too, the inspiration is there to be seen but it is not an exact copy.
On to the flip side, Gunday is not unwatchable but after a point, everything becomes monotonous and with 152 minutes of running time, the pleasure of watching is lost. Still as a mass masala film, there are watchable moments and the chemistry between Bikram and Bala was good to watch.
The performance side has Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor excelling in their respective roles of Bikram and Bala but it was Irfaan Khan as ACP Satyajit Sarkar who steal the show from the lead duo even though Irfaan's role was just a special appearance with extended scenes. Priyanka Chopra as Nadita was not that convincing while Saurabh Shukla was quite good in his limited role.
The technical side can boast of good camera work, background score and music. There are foot tapping song numbers along with couple of slow numbers and credit goes to music director Sohail Sen for bringing out a decent album for a masala flick. Action sequences were also well choreographed but the shirt ripping scene in one of the fight scene towards the fag end was a bit funny.
Overall, Gunday is a one time watchable mass masala flick that does not offer anything new but with its racy narration and action , entertainment is guaranteed. I am giving three out of five.
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