10-08-2014, 11:21 AM
Another Akki flick watched on Netflix. This came out this year and captured the box office for the first half. It's really mediocre.
It's a masala flick - a mix of goofy comedy and ultravi action. Akki is a soldier on a 40-day holiday. He gets in a comic mix-up with his arranged bride, Sonakshi Sinha, in a classic on-again-off-againbollywood rom com. She's a boxing champ ala Mary Kom, a construct that was never revisited sadly. Meanwhile, Akki gets involved with terrorist sleeper cells and a bomb-happy mastermind in Mumbai. Mumbai is still stinging from the Taj Mahal Hotel bombing in 2008 - we visited that hotel when we were in India. It is a crown jewel of Mumbai. And it's also a buddy flick because Akki's buddy is a cop that's like Watson, always a step behind and the tool for explaining wth is going on.
But the film is weak. No sword fights. Mediocre dance numbers. The violence is shocking as Akki is merciless, torturing and murdering terrorists without abandon. The action is ok for Akki, although too much digital blood puffs after he stabs multiple terrorists in one scene and gratuitous cgi gunshots to the forehead. Rather disappointingly, I was more into the rom com part than the ultravi.
It's a masala flick - a mix of goofy comedy and ultravi action. Akki is a soldier on a 40-day holiday. He gets in a comic mix-up with his arranged bride, Sonakshi Sinha, in a classic on-again-off-againbollywood rom com. She's a boxing champ ala Mary Kom, a construct that was never revisited sadly. Meanwhile, Akki gets involved with terrorist sleeper cells and a bomb-happy mastermind in Mumbai. Mumbai is still stinging from the Taj Mahal Hotel bombing in 2008 - we visited that hotel when we were in India. It is a crown jewel of Mumbai. And it's also a buddy flick because Akki's buddy is a cop that's like Watson, always a step behind and the tool for explaining wth is going on.
But the film is weak. No sword fights. Mediocre dance numbers. The violence is shocking as Akki is merciless, torturing and murdering terrorists without abandon. The action is ok for Akki, although too much digital blood puffs after he stabs multiple terrorists in one scene and gratuitous cgi gunshots to the forehead. Rather disappointingly, I was more into the rom com part than the ultravi.
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