A plain attempt of Indian cinema to translate a story from a bookshelf to a theatre screen.
Add some flavour of Sanjay Gupta's modern day gangster masala and you get is Manya Surve and his naive mafia gang.
Although the director has tried his way to create the gangsters of the 80s yet his habits of the portraying the bad boys from Musafir and Kaante can be spotted on the screen.
The dialogues cannot be termed as absolutely hilarious, but they worked their way up just like any other Sanjay Gupta mafia movies.
I don't know if the stories of gangsters are always the same, that is, rags to riches, an ordinary boy becoming a victim of the system's ordeal and then putting himself back up to avenge the injustice. But this turned out to be something one could predict.
John Abraham plays the perfect Marathi gangster, but still has to work hard on his acting skills. He should not kiss his acting goodbye, only because now he is making more fortune being a producer than an actor. Tushar Kapoor adds the 'Kya kool hai hum' comic essence and Anil Kapoor has met expectations by being the standard template Bollywood tough cop.
Manoj Bajpai's talent looked under utilised, while Sonu Sood has given his 130% and may have carved a fortune for his future.
The movie also has some unrealistic developments to the story; like a common innocent boy training to become a fighter in 4 weeks to have his hand painted red in blood; and not to forget the ease and comfort with which Manya's gang is formed which will put a startup entrepreneur to shame who struggles day in and day out to build his company.
Overall an average movie, which ran out of potential to be better. Worth a watch in theatres if you are a die hard fan of gangster movies.
PS: Do not, I say again, do not take your girlfriend/wife along just because you didn't have any company to watch this movie with; else be ready to see her become the Manya Surve, at least in your life, for the rest of the weekend.
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