Salman does only two kinds of movies - one is absolute senseless stuff, which resembles the old Bollywood style stuff(which is more like the South Indian cinema), or some really sensible and sensitive stuff. And Dabanng reminded me of the former.
Dabanng is the story of Chulbul Pandey(Salman Khan), a cop in Lalganj,Uttar Pradesh. As a child, he had a hard time adjusting with his mentally weak brother Makhan(Arbaz Khan), and his second father Mr Prajapati Pandey(Chulbul's father expired when he was two, and his mother had to get married once again). The movie then shifts gear within 3minutes of the start of the movie to show the present , where he combats a group of bank robbers alone in a hillariously stupid fight scene(dancing on tunes while taking a break from fighting, and suddenly again starts fighting....illogical).
As the movie progresses, his strained relation with his father and brother Makhan is shown. Suddenly Makhan's love story appears and its plot reminds of the old bollywood romantic saga's. Then in the middle of a chase sequence, he falls in love with a girl(Sonakshi Sinha), chats with her while the gangsters run, and suddenly catches up with them and nabs them. Chulbul falls in love with that girl, and comes to know that her father(Mahesh Manjrekar) is a damn alcoholic. Later when the father dies, he marries the girl.
Chedi Singh, a local political tout, happens to get his money stuck with Chulbul. He uses all means to get it back. Chulbul arrests him for operating illegal liquor breweries which produces poisonous alcohol, and Chedi avenges revenge for it. And in the process, he kills Chulbul's mother. Later he kills a leader too.
Pandey finds him guilty for killing the leader, and while he gets to him, Chedi had managed to blast away his father's factory . It is the shortage of money for the medical expenses for the father which make the challenged brother Makhan deliver a box to the leader's house not kowing that the box had a bomb.
Chulbul reaches the scene. The fight begins. And in a ridiculous chain of events, he gets to know how his mother was killed by Chedi, and kills Chedi for his misdeeds. The End
The movie is utter nuisance. Everything has been done on a very high budget scale to cover up for the weak story. The high promotions by Salman had already hinted me that the movie was a dud. Everything in the movie doesn't seem to make sense. Song sequences, fight sequences, story continuation, literally everything. The story throughout vests with Chulbul Pandey.
The screeching of the brakes is too loud and irritating, dont know where have they acquired it from. The sound effects are good Salman's performance is good. Vinod Khanna has also done justice to his role. Director Abhinav Kashyap has done a terrible job to the senseless script. Thats a different thing that expectations from him was of a movie like his brother's Dev. D or Udaan.
One funny thing about the movie is that the crew seems to have bought Ray Ban Aviators in bulk. Everyone appears to be wearing them. And Salman's character seem to have those aviators as his second layer of eyes. And the dialogues are wierd.
On the music front, Sajid-Wajid have done a good job, which helped a lot in building the initial 'super'hype. All of them had given a good share of work which helped the movie having the highest Box Office opening in bollywood.
For everything including a nonsense script and a few pieces of acting, i give the movie 1.5 out of 5, which includes a 1 only for Salman's acting. Those who like meaningful cinema would rather consider spending money on this movie as money stolen from their pockets.
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