Director Nikhil Advani’s Hero revives the famous dialogue from Subhash Ghai’s Hero( 1983) at a crucial juncture in the film and IG Shrikant Mathur( Tigmanshu Dhulia) responds to it in the next shot. The expression on Dhulia’s face immediately reminds us of his iconic Gangs Of Wasseypur dialogue, "Beta humko tumhare lachchan theek nahi lag rahe hain. Tum se na ho payega." And, you, in all probability, would agree with him.
After a carefully planned media campaign, Sooraj Pancholi( Sooraj Kaushik) and Athiya Shetty( Radha Mathur) are finally here, in a story that’s still stuck in the’90s. Radha is your regular Hindi film heroine who doesn’t care for the repercussions of her actions because her father is the Inspector General of Police in Mumbai. Such a heroine creates the scope for a’hero’ who will tame, test and love her, in that order.