Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara Movie Review
Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara Movie Review
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Release Dt :Dec, 23 2024
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- Film : Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara
- Producer : Ekta Kapoor, Shobha Kapoor
- Director : Milan Luthria
- Star Cast : Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Imran Khan, Sonali Bendre..
- Music Director : Pritam
Akshay Kumar Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara Movie Review and Rating
Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara Movie review is yet again a Once Upon… story where every line is a punch line and retro look is fantastic with its aroma of nostalgia! It stars Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Imran Khan, Sonali Bendre.
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Story
Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara is the story of an underworld don, Shohaib (Akshay Kumar), who killed his mentor in the past (Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai) to gain supremacy and is now the ruling mafia king. His influence and power has spread right up to the Middle East, today. Shoaib is now a flamboyant, suave man who is feared and revered. Shohaib’s only confidantes are his best friend Javed, who oversees his empire for him and his former lover Mumtaz (Sonali Bendre) who is now his closest friend. He often visits the poor Muslim areas where he grew up and it is on one such visit that he meets Aslam (Imran Khan). He takes him under his wings and gradually Aslam becomes one of his favourites. Shohaib wants to gain full control over Bombay and this is met with resistance from two existing ganglords – Vardha and Arun. Vardha and Arun join hands with a cop – Sreenu, whose only purpose in life is finishing off Shohaib’s reign, for which he gladly joins hands with the ganglords. While Bombay continues to be the object of their fancy, Shohaib stumbles upon a young actress – Yasmin (Sonakshi Sinha). He is immediately taken in by her freshness, beauty and candor. Slowly, but surely his attraction towards Yasmin goes onto becoming an obsession. This creates a rift between Shoaib and Aslam and results in the ultimate showdown between the mentor & protege.
Analysis :
There are very few euphoric moments in the film partly due to the reason of its lazy writing that is carried out rather shakily, and rest because it doesn’t meet the standards set by its colossal predecessor. I can almost count the number of times I felt that ecstatic high inside me during the film. There are dialogues put in which make no sense and some are actually offensive to your gray cells without being remotely entertaining.
The film’s first part has a few good moments but nothing that the trailer hadn’t shown you. A few brilliant action scenes in the first half are done fabulously. There is a scene where Akshay and Imran leap off from one terrace to another, and that is perhaps the only place where the film shows some panache of what it had attempted on. The romantic angle was overtly done and somehow doesn’t have the required blaze. The chemistry between Sonakshi and her actors is not fabricated neatly and somehow it comes across as a shock when she declares her love for one and rejects the other! The screenplay had barely given any tender moments or delicate minutes of love and hence romance obsession seems quite out of the blue. The film fails to be a proper crime thriller or a love saga as it dismally flops at both doing absolutely no justice to either.
Performance :
Akshay Kumar is so sleazy that he will crack you up with his dialogue delivery. It is outright hilarious. The actor fails to add depth in his character and couldn’t infuse charisma or persona in a role that Emraan Hashmi had immortalized. This Shoaib can at best manage to be a mock don but his over the top acting is such a flop show! Sonakshi Sinha goes wrong every time she is in a commercial film. One can be rest assured that her performance in Lootera is a fluke or a mere shadow of director’s flawless cinematic abilities that he could extract such a wonderful performance from her. In this film, she is a chatterbox replete with idioticity which the director frames as naiveness. She shrieks as if possessed in the climax scene as bombards all her good, if she had done any.
Imran Khan is plain flat with nil emotions in his dialogues. His trying-too-hard-to-be-suave act will leave you yawning and doesn’t help in furthering the impression we have of him-his inherent inability to act. He could have done so much with the role but alas he painstakingly wastes every bit of it. There is only one solid scene that the director gave to actress Sonali Bendre and she was brilliant in it. She was the only one who delivered her role in a compelling and convincing manner. In few minutes, she added depth to her character and managed to convey the emotional wreckage Shoaib’s love had caused her! The supporting cast is needless and have nothing substantial to do. Mahesh Manjrekar’s odd gestures and postures was a pain in the genuine sense of the word.
Final Word:Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai Dobaara screams to Bollywood to do away with its ridiculous trend of Dobaara films simply because this time the Dobaara was painful on its audience. I am going with a generous 2.5 for its novel concept which was built flimsily. I was left dumbfounded at how audaciously the film spends so much energy flaunting nothing that they give its real theme a miss! It is hard to point out whom to blame, yet the bottom line doesn’t change – you can easily miss this one and save yourself a headache. Now, it's your choice!!!
(AW: Samrat Biswas)
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