08-28-2018, 08:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-28-2018, 08:19 PM by Drunk Monk.)
Remember Heropanti? Well, I don't really but fortunately the good ol' DOOM forum does - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=3717
Baaghi is the next Bollywood martial arts flick from that hunk of dreamy buffness, Tiger Shroff. It's arguably the first significant Kalari flick, Kalari being the indigenous martial art of India, and stars a genuine Kalari master, Shifuji Shaurya Bhardwai, as the Tiger's Kalari master in the film (I'm not sure about this but I think Shifuji is a combo of Shifu and the Hindi suffix of respect 'ji'). It's a love triangle with Shradda Kapoor as the love interest - she can dance and sing and reminded me of a slimmer Indian Andie McDowell, but despite some clever camera angles, she can't really sell a fight scene. But Tiger, he's built for Bollywood slo-mo aerial tricker kicks. He can dance and sing too, quite well in fact, although I felt most of the dance numbers were rather lackluster except the initial train dance scene. The first hour is mostly sappy Bollywood, sugary songs, colorful scenery, and a strange fetish for rain. There's a subtle play on the Ramayana, with Tiger playing Ronny (Rama), Shradda as Siya (Sita) and the villain Raghav (Ravena).
But the fights, they do deliver. It's one shot, one move action, lots of wire work and slo-mo. Tiger liberally lifts from his predecessors, scenes poached straight from Jackie, Donnie, Tony and Iko. There's the classic training doing chores from Karate Kid, including the JC keeping the floor clean, the parkour-esque street chase, the one-kick drops the NHB underground fighter from Ong Bak, X-ray bone break vision, and the finale fight is very Game of Death/Raid with the tower filled with fighters. There's even JC's signature NGs for the end credits. But the fights are entertaining, strangely satisfying for a Bollywood actioner, and once the hour mark is crossed, there's a decent amount of fight scenes.
Not really recommended but if you do venture in, I'd just speed to the fight scenes. Mind you, I did like that first train dance number, but it's really all about the fights.
Baaghi is the next Bollywood martial arts flick from that hunk of dreamy buffness, Tiger Shroff. It's arguably the first significant Kalari flick, Kalari being the indigenous martial art of India, and stars a genuine Kalari master, Shifuji Shaurya Bhardwai, as the Tiger's Kalari master in the film (I'm not sure about this but I think Shifuji is a combo of Shifu and the Hindi suffix of respect 'ji'). It's a love triangle with Shradda Kapoor as the love interest - she can dance and sing and reminded me of a slimmer Indian Andie McDowell, but despite some clever camera angles, she can't really sell a fight scene. But Tiger, he's built for Bollywood slo-mo aerial tricker kicks. He can dance and sing too, quite well in fact, although I felt most of the dance numbers were rather lackluster except the initial train dance scene. The first hour is mostly sappy Bollywood, sugary songs, colorful scenery, and a strange fetish for rain. There's a subtle play on the Ramayana, with Tiger playing Ronny (Rama), Shradda as Siya (Sita) and the villain Raghav (Ravena).
But the fights, they do deliver. It's one shot, one move action, lots of wire work and slo-mo. Tiger liberally lifts from his predecessors, scenes poached straight from Jackie, Donnie, Tony and Iko. There's the classic training doing chores from Karate Kid, including the JC keeping the floor clean, the parkour-esque street chase, the one-kick drops the NHB underground fighter from Ong Bak, X-ray bone break vision, and the finale fight is very Game of Death/Raid with the tower filled with fighters. There's even JC's signature NGs for the end credits. But the fights are entertaining, strangely satisfying for a Bollywood actioner, and once the hour mark is crossed, there's a decent amount of fight scenes.
Not really recommended but if you do venture in, I'd just speed to the fight scenes. Mind you, I did like that first train dance number, but it's really all about the fights.
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