Bang Bang: Hrithik bodes well

Bang Bang
Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Katrina Kaif, Danny Denzongpa, Jimmy Sheirgill
Rated: 5.5/10
It’s slick. There’s a lot of action too. And Dharma Production’s money power is all too evident in all those heady foreign locales. But Bang Bang, riding on the audacious negative campaign of being the most violent presentation for India’s most peaceful day (Gandhi Jayanti), hits you only here and there.
For the rest of the time, it is the well thought out and slickly designed romance between a hulk and a bimbette (read Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif) which tries to bind a movie in which the mystery is out in the second shot itself. If at all Bang Bang takes a high ride, it will be on the gorgeous abs of Hrithik Roshan and the helluva moves he can make with his body.
Quite another matter though that  director Siddharth Anand has decided that his audience are much like his heroine — quite without brains, or for that matter, even geographic sense. So, his Dehra Dun is knee deep in snow with an oldish couple (Deepti Naval and Kanwaljit who keeps ploughing away at the snow when he is not scowling at any and everything) enhancing the whites with their pristine attire.
From Rajpur Road in snow-clad Dehra Dun to Prague, Mauritius and where all not, Katrina, a bank receptionist, manages to go on a world tour merely by applying for a blind date on truelove.com!
You could thank Hrithik for that though it is pretty apparent all through that our Krrish is trying very hard to do something other than look dishy with or without his shirt for those long hours.
The good thing (some may say bad thing) about Bang Bang is that it does not overwhelm you with bullets, blood and boredom. Rather, the balance between humour, romance and action has been maintained to a large extent with the race finally being lost by, well, true love without the dotcom!
The action sequences, including the famous one in which Hrithik rises from the depths of the ocean on an F1 type of water scooter have been executed well and the newness comes into all the maardhaar due to the underwater sequences.
All in all, Bang Bang is a fun holiday movie, strictly out of brain space, pivoting around those oiled muscles of Mr Roshan and grooving on the stupid cupid love story of Katrina the receptionist with Hrithik the Adonis on a mission which the Indian secret service has him on.
Obviously, producer Karan Johar who till recently had been having fun on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, was obviously too bowled over by Hrithik’s body power to have thought about a story around it.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 5 October, 2014

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