KICK: Have faith in God aka Salman & you might enjoy him taking you for a ride! [2/5]

Many describe most of the mass-entertainers a ‘paisa-vasool’ film. I really want to know what this reckless term is all about. Does a ‘dhaansu’ entry of the hero pay you back a 50 rupee note? How much a Nargis Fakhri item number is worth of, accordingly? And how to evaluate all those silly fight sequences and an emotional backup to the story to justify all the ridiculous actions our hero does?? I am still trying to locate my ‘paisa’ spent on Sajid Nadiadwala’s KICK in my wallet, if it’s come back! No, it’s not there yet! My ‘Paisa’ is not ‘Vasool-ed’.

Getting into direction with a Salman Khan film is one of the wisest decisions Sajid would ever have made. The man who knows it all [Sajid being the most celebrated Film producer] meets the man who does it all [Salman is known for that] and the outcome is all set to break records on box-office but not without testing your patience and questioning your intelligence. The man in question here is nothing but God to his fans. Everything he does on screen robotically becomes believable and justifiable. Otherwise, who would have the guts to propose a name like ‘Devi’ to a character played by Salman Khan? (No offence to women out there!)

So, he’s a good-hearted guy who endorses alcohol ferociously and gets offended by the idea of being a ‘Ghar Jamai’ though he has nothing to be proud of except, of course a good ‘being human’ heart. Wow, how manly he is! Only thing he seeks from life is a kind of adrenalin rush and he can really go far for that. Even stealing from the riches becomes one of the mediums to achieve one such kick. Reminds of DHOOM 3? Why not, it is a distant cousin to that in many aspects. Replacing one accented leading lady with the other irksome victim of same disorder could be one.

KICK also suffers from a bunch of ironies. One that leaves you in splits is when Devi [the Salman Khan] is repeatedly called a ‘headache’, ‘torture’ and ‘unjhelable’ by none other than his girlfriend. Was she referring to the film? I hope so. In one of the last scenes, Salman is seen dancing on ‘Saat Samundar Paar’ from VISHWATMA. This is undeniably the sweetest and cutest tribute to Divya Bharti from his husband Sajid but the irony doesn’t find a place to hide that the yesteryear actress’s suspicious death has drinking habits as allegedly one of the main causes and this whole sequence encourages drinking like there’s no one watching. Awful! 

On the performance meter, it’s Randeep Hooda who brings in the most controlled performance. For making himself confidently able to stand against someone like Salman in a film designed for Salman, Hooda deserves it. The most annoying of the lot is Nawazuddin Siddiqui. His weirdly wicked act of a villainous laugh is so old-fashioned and maddening to hear one after another. As for as Salman is concerned, he is hardly concerned about it! As a true ardent fan, we should not look for logics in whatever he does like after so much criminal cases against him, he’s seen wearing a police uniform at the end; to make it loud and clear that, “Do not try understanding me!” Well, I dare not! And you better not if going for it! [2/5]