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2.5/5
Tiger burns bright...
Hindi films are fast turning into no-brainers. Earlier comedies took the leave-your-brains-behind route and now action films are telling us to do exactly that. We've been told to enjoy the action set pieces and not trouble ourselves into finding any strand of logic in such offerings. Baaghi 3 faithfully adheres to this new formula. Sample this -- a villain (Jaideep Ahlawat) kidnaps Indians along with their families and smuggles them to Syria so that they can be turned into human bombs. Vijay Varma's character acts as a friend, philosopher and guide to Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) in Syria without them ever knowing each other before. He's literally a genie come to life.
The film is hugely inspired by the Tamil hit Vettai (2012), starring Madhavan and Arya. There, Madhavan played a timid police officer who doesn't have a stomach for violence but his younger brother Arya, who is a rowdy, beats up the goons and gets his brother promoted like every time. The same is the scenario here. Vikram (Riteish Deshmukh) becomes a cop at his uncle, and younger brother's behest as their father (Jackie Shroff) too was a cop. Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) cleans up the town while Vikram gets the credit for it. A routine mission to Syria involving filing paperwork goes awry when Vikram is kidnapped by terrorists. Now Ronnie has to cross borders to rescue his brother from a crime boss who controls an entire nation.
The coin fight scene from Vijay starrer Kaththi (2014) has been recreated here, though it isn’t as effective as the original. Another scene has Tiger fighting goons atop a flying helicopter. If you leave aside the physics of it then it certainly is a first for our films. The three helicopters chasing him crash spectacularly atop each other. Tiger standing atop them is an image straight out of a superhero movie. He’s as nimble and well-muscled as any Hollywood actor playing a superhero character and should be getting a call from either DC or Marvel. Because when he’s flowing through his moves he makes it all look effortless. He still falters in emotional scenes - though the one involving his actual father Jackie Shroff does have him expressing the right emotions. Amongst all the over-the-top action, the film does try to give out the message that terrorism has nothing to do with religion. In these troubled times, we do need such positive vibes.
The film also stars Ankita Lokhande as Ronnie’s sister-in-law and Shraddha Kapoor as her sister who has hots for Ronnie. The two girls, despite the build-up about them both being fiery characters, have nothing to do really in the film. Riteish gets to play a timid police inspector for laughs and brings all his experience of playing comic characters to make his character look appealing. But ultimately it’s Tiger Shroff’s show all the way. He slices and dices through the opposition with the finesse of a ballet dancer. He seriously needs better scripts sometimes soon to do better justice to his enormous talent...
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