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BANG BANG!
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An entertainment that gives a wholesome fun ride with cars, guns, chases, dance, music and some exotic locales abound, Bang Bang delivers right what it promises. The movie was broadly publicized as a bold action story and this is what one gets to see.
Harleen (Katrina Kaif) is a bank receptionist who lives with her grand mom - a wholehearted woman who enters the bathroom when Harleen is having a shower to ask her why she has no boyfriends. Due to Boring life, Harleen signs up for a blind date on a website. Enter trigger-happy thief Rajveer (Hrithik Roshan). He has robbed the Kohinoor from London, no less! Since her blind date has not turned up, Rajveer takes over and charms her.
Certainly there are people gunning for him because he has the Kohinoor and then starts the non-sense chase, which goes on till the end of the film. As Harleen was spotted with him, she is in danger too so he has to take care of her and himself. So she will tag along everywhere he goes. While they are in danger they go from one place to another and also make time to sing a song at every fancy location.
This means if Hrithik steps out for a lunch break, he encounters criminals. If he sets his foot on a blind date, even if by a chance, it has to conclude with broken furniture. If he takes a ride on a road of Shimla, there are bound to be car blasts on the way. If he is near an island, he would shoot while jumping in and out of water, if he is being dragged on a road, he would settle for nothing less than a F1 car to beat the folks around.
That's the tale of his life, and unlike Knight and Day where there was some suspense element around the central protagonist's true self, there is nothing like that for Hrithik Roshan. It is all plain and simple.
The makers have visibly pumped in a lot of money here for shooting in various places from Shimla to Abu Dhabi to Greece. The actors are seen using every mode of transport from speeding bikes, formula one cars, speed boat and even sea planes. If all this could make the movie entertaining, the whopping budget would have been worth.
Hrithik Roshan looks good and that's nothing new but don't expect any great acting here since he was just probable to run from one place to the other. Katrina Kaif was given an unusual role and there was little she could do about it. Music by Vishal Shekhar is regular. Some songs are likable and shot well too but music doesn't make a mark.
Well, this is how Katrina's characterization too plays on the screen and while it is always an eye candy to watch the young woman on the big screen, courtesy her picture perfect look, the build up towards her meeting with Hrithik takes its own sweet time.
Moreover, what works is the fact when in the second half, director Siddharth Anand doesn't meander at all and keeps the action quotient uninterrupted. The repartee exchanged between them is good fun while the bits around some true-blue family moments (courtesy Deepti Naval and Kanwaljit Singh) are lovable, effortless and short as well.
With the graph of the movie going up on this side after the interval, the pre-climax and climax prove to be further highlights as some never-seen-before action takes over. This is what makes for a big screen watch as it is an experience indeed with the ideal combination of sound, visuals and style.
Overall, it is worthy to watch once. It is a wholesome fun ride with cars, guns, chases, dance, music and some exotic locales abound.
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