Film: Aggi
Rating: 2/5
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Prashant Raj, Sushmita Sen, Nisha Kothari, Amitabh Bachchan, Sushanth Singh, JD Chakravarthy etc
Writer: Rahil Quazi
Camera: Amit Roy
Dialogues: Ravi Shankar
Production and Direction: Ram Gopal Varma
Release Date: 31st August 2007
Story:
Raj (Prashant Raj) and Heeroo (Ajay Devgan) come to city in search of livelihood. They happen to help Inspector Narasimha (Mohan Lal) in his mission. Eventually as part of his duty, Narasimha kills the brother of Jabbar Singh. Jabbar Singh (Amitabh Bcahchan) is a cruel mafia don who loves his brother a lot. Then Jabbar takes revenge of Narasimha by killing his family members and cutting is fingers. Narasimha uses Raj and Heeroo to take his revenge on Jabbar Singh. Heeroo loves Gowri (Nisha Kothari), a lady auto driver. Rest of the theme can be watched on screen.
Performances:
Ajay Devgan and Prashant Raj are just ok in their roles. Nisha is unnecessarily given bigger role to play and Sushmitha’s presence on screen is a mere waste. JD Chakravarthy and Suchitra Krishna Murthy appear in cameo roles.
Amitabh Bachchan’s role as Jabbar Singh is completely artificial and brought no villainy at all. Mohan Lal is brought all the way from Kerala but his role has no majesty to boast big. Sanjeev Kumar’s role in Sholay is far better. While Sanjeev Kumar loses hands in Sholay, here in Aggi, Mohan Lal loses his fingers in the hands of Jabbar Singh.
Presence of Abhishek Bachchan in Mehbooba song is a smirk on the pale narration. The much expected Urmila’s dance for Mehbooba also went down with no passion in it.
All that deserves mention is the back ground score and technology in canning fight sequences. There is nothing other than this. RGV flailed as director with this film.
Analysis:
The film is made with no spirit and there is no grip in narration. If we watch it with the comparison of 1975 Sholay, it stands no where. Why Ramu made it? The waning creativity of Ramu can be clearly seen in this film. There is no scene in the film that pulls the crowds towards screen. There is no scene that made the audiences forget that they are watching a film. It’s completely a wrong dish made by wrong cook
RGV cannot bring in depth in pathos, sentiments and emotional human relations. The original Sholay has a blend of all those. Here in this new ‘Aggi’ nothing is justified in those lines.
First half of the film is sagging with pale narration and the interval bang is worst. Second half is slow and tests the patience of audiences. It’s for Ramu to check what he is thinking. Either he should correct himself or he should stop directing films. Otherwise, his glory would go to dogs with boring films like this.
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