Spoilers ahead…
The film looks spectacular but we feel we have seen it all before.
Razneesh ‘Raz’ Ghai’s Dhaakad is the kind of action-thriller where someone in the back room tells the field operative something like this: Dragonfly, this is Ringmaster! It’s the kind of movie where the protagonist suffers stabbings and ten thousand bullets and even being stabbed in the chest, only to survive each time. It’s the kind of movie with latex masks and a variety of disguises. In short, it’s the kind of movie usually made with a man – and at least in theory, and decades after Vijayashanthi, it’s good to have a woman kicking some serious butt. The target is a human-trafficking ring, and the trigger is a lullaby that is often used to induce a sense of poignancy to the proceedings. It doesn’t, which is the big problem. It comes across more like a cheesy jingle in the middle of a Schwarzenegger movie marathon on TV.
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Yajiv
May 21, 2022
If opening day numbers are anything to go by, this would be Kangana’s 9th back-to-back BO failure. I must say that her career has been surprisingly resilient inspite of that though.
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Madan
May 21, 2022
Tbf, Panga would have done well if not for the release clashing with the onset of the pandemic. Oddly, it had more character than quite a few sports films based on real people.
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MANK
May 21, 2022
Kangana’s missing the forest for the trees. she’s taking full control of her projects and concentrating solely on making her character work\different\all-empowering etc. that the rest of the film is suffering. We can see the same problems with many of her recent films, including Manikarnika (which i thought was a hit, so don’t know about this being her 9th straight failure). Of course this is something that egoistical male superstars like Salman Khan does all the time- making movies which are all about them, and with weak directors whom they can control, but he has a strong mass base that lets him get away with it, at least at the box office (even that seems to be not working now). And someone like Aamir Khan, who has a mastery over every aspect of films and hence is able to elevate a film by taking control over them, is the rare exception. Kangana needs to get back to working with better (and strong) directors and scriptwriters.
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Rahul
May 22, 2022
I am not a fan of Kangana because of her extremely toxic personality , but to give credit where it is due, she has created a brand for herself , and at least she is able to get these movies made and released. If and when she is able to get a good movie made, I think it will do well.
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vijay
May 23, 2022
sounds like trying to do what Rani did in Mardaani a few yrs back. You dont have to go all the way back to Vijayashanthi. Except that it is Kangana who makes a big deal out of it . And the more the hype, the less effective the movies are..
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vijay
May 23, 2022
Talking of lady butt-kicking, the one that gives you vicarious highs was Anushka’s NH10 for more than one reason..thats some real wish fulfillment butt kicking right there.. a movie thats bound to be relevant for its theme even in the years to come..
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Vseruki
June 1, 2022
I really liked it. The trailer opens with a nifty action scene where Agent Agni mows down the bad guys one by one. Agent Agni sends his boss on a deadly mission to take down a mining mafia don played by Arjun Rampal. Agni, who is also a master of wig disguise, kills several bad guys as well as several blond henchmen.
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