Gabbar is back and how !

 Gabbar is back 
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Shruti Hassan, Sunil Grover, Suman Talwar
Rated: 7/10
This movie has Gabbar wali baat. But from that Ramgarh ka Gabbar and his blood curdling pachaas pachaas kos dur threat, this one has moved some paces up, this time on the ladder of goodness. So when this one says his bit about pachaas kos, you clap, you look up to him and you want to follow his example. The Gabbar here is dabangg not evil, he is loveable and he is on a mission.
The best thing about this mount against corruption is that it gives you no time to think and it stands tall on the becoming swagger of Akshay Kumar. Akshay here is unkempt but has attitude and he doesn’t mind being a grown up professor, happy that all frames of this over two-hour movie focus mostly on him.
He does justice to all this concentrated footage he grabs in the film which flows seamlessly from one hanging of a corrupt man to the other, making all others except Gabbar Akshay, impotent — be it the police, the politician or even the much detested moneybag.
The fast paced caper is slickly edited, choreographed aptly for action and so immensely story conscious that it does not lose focus even once — not even when the rather orgasmic Chitrangada is seducing you with her gyrating body and raunchy kundi na kadkao raja, seedhey andar aao raja number late into the film.
Though the entire thing about cleaning India of corruption is quite over the top, there is hardly anyone who minds it. The mob fury and helplessness against this scourge is so high that the constant killing and extra judicial measures that are taken in the film find no detractors.
Akshay has been churning out films much like Salman Khan which hit the right note howsoever far removed from reality they may be. He carries the action singularly on his shoulders be it films like mission-oriented films like Baby and Special Chhabbis or Gabbar Is Back. It is a good idea to have titled the movie on Gabbar, Bollywood’s most iconic villain. The accompanying dialogues, so famous over the decades, come in the right ambience.
Shruti Hassan provides the beauty relief with her angelic looks and not at all bad acting skills.Yes Gabbar is back. And how! 
Source: Sunday Pioneer, 3 May, 2015

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