‘Gabbar Is Back’ Movie Review – Bollywood Bubble

Directed by: Krish
Produced by: Bhansali Productions
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Shruti Haasan, Suman Talwar, Jaideep Ahlawat, Sunil Grover, Ishita Vyas, Kareena Kapoor Khan
Duration: 2 hours 08 minutes
Bollywood Bubble Rating: 2/5

Gabbar Is Back, and we wish he wasn’t !

The name “Gabbar” reminds us of Bollywood’s most endearing baddie from one of the biggest Blockbusters of all times. Unfortunately, Akshay Kumar couldn’t even get close to it and nor did the movie.

‘Gabbar Is Back’ is a remake of a 2002 Tamil film made by AR Murugadoss. Being a South remake and playing Gabbar in it gave Akshay Kumar room to do all that he has been doing for years; from kicking to punching to screaming

Fighting against corruption seems to be Akshay Kumar’s new interest as all the movies he has done off late
revolve around that subject matter.

“Naam se villain, kaam se hero”, could well be the one-line brief of Akshay’s character in the film.

The film has five principal characters – the crusading protagonist Aditya/Gabbar (Akshay Kumar), a lawyer’s assistant and the hero’s romantic interest Shruti (Shruti Haasan), a lowly but ambitious constable Sadhuram (Sunil Grover), a swaggering CBI officer Kuldeep Pahwa (Jaideep Ahlawat) and a villainous real estate tycoon Digvijay Patil (Suman Talwar).

The plot unfolds in Maharashtra where the system is very corrupt and as expected a common man Aditya stands against all this. But stepping the conventional path is not his style and so he decides to use a cult film character “Gabbar” to his benefit.

Aditya is a college professor, but he does everything other than teach. Pretty much the same is true of Shruti Haasan’s character. She is a lawyer whose life depends on stray pieces of information culled from Google.

The film reminds the audience repeatedly that the protagonist is a villain only by name. By disposition, he is a hero committed to ridding the nation of corruption.

In a tiny cameo, Kareena Kapoor shows how to do the required jiggle-wiggle: everything done with practiced ease, there one minute, gone the next.

Well, Watch ‘Gabbar Is Back’ only if you are a die-hard Akshay Kumar fan and his kicks and punches and screaming.