Remaking an 11-year
old Telugu super hit doesn’t really sound a bad idea at first, as masala
entertainers are the safest option in Bollywood to hit the jackpot of the 100
Cr club. First timers Sanjay Kapoor [being the producer] & Amit Ravindernath
Sharma [the admaker takes a leap by directing a full-fledged feature film] try
the same with showing their jam-packed confidence in family-boy Arjun Kapoor and
the adeptly assured actor-performer Manoj Bajpayee in a negative role. Still,
TEVAR suffers the stinks of being old, rotten and formulaic, mostly and mainly at
the plot part.
In the murderous land
of Northern Uttar Pradesh; where power rules and male-chauvinism takes hold of the
dice in the game, you don’t really meet a Pintu Shukla [Arjun Kapoor] very
often. Though he is a Salman Khan fan and wears same attitude as well and effortless
as his trademark aviator shades, he can also be seen harassing an eve-teaser for
giving him back what he was doing to a teenage girl, moments ago. He also cares
for the girl’s presence while mouthing not-so-smooth verbal expressions. Now,
that’s rare. Rare for a Bollywood movie which also could have Salman in the
place! I wished it to have more of such attitude!
The drama soars high
when a bigheaded, haughty and powerful scandalous brother [Manoj Bajpayee] of
an influential politician starts feeling for a local girl doing her obvious best
like dancing and attending drama classes. Who else but Sonakshi in real, and in
reel? Pintu accidently crosses the path, beats the villain, meets the girl and
takes it as a mission to save the girl from the lecherous. Don’t allow me to
judge your intelligence about what comes next and in the finale! And it all
happens with a plentiful of high-octane action and songs of every kind, alternatively
and frequently.
The part where Amit
Ravindernath Sharma scores big is the treatment, authenticity of the locations,
characters that can easily charm the audience in mass and drama that never
actually lacks the punch. He is confident for sure but it hurts to see such
talent trembling all over a plot which could have been best in the year of 2005
but never a promising in 2015. Arjun Kapoor’s energy never runs out of charge.
He CAN be as charismatic as Salman. He CAN beat the goons too, at beats. He CAN
also lip smoothly the most absurdly written dialogues using slangs of male-organs.
Only if the script had provided him more space and viewers some kind of novelty
to stick around, it would have been a pleasant surprise!
Though not in full
form; Manoj Bajpayee does his part well in the most theatrical manner. He successfully
uses his corrupt, sinning and wicked eyes for the most. Don’t expect a GANGS OF
WASSEYPUR from him but he’s better than the repetitive Prakash Raj any day.
Sonakshi does what she’s been doing for ages now, and I really want to write
more about her abilities as an actor but then, there is hardly anything new.
Raj Babbar, Dipti Naval & Rajesh Sharma don’t disappoint.
With a tiring duration of 2 hour 39 minutes, age-old plot and mindlessly put songs, Amit Ravindernath Sharma’s TEVAR is an average action-entertainer saved hugely by Arjun Kapoor’s earnest & energetic performance and Manoj Bajpayee’s engagingly villainous character. Watch it if you are a fan of both, though it is not their best at all! [2/5]
With a tiring duration of 2 hour 39 minutes, age-old plot and mindlessly put songs, Amit Ravindernath Sharma’s TEVAR is an average action-entertainer saved hugely by Arjun Kapoor’s earnest & energetic performance and Manoj Bajpayee’s engagingly villainous character. Watch it if you are a fan of both, though it is not their best at all! [2/5]
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