So we landed in Goa, a man who is buying fish from the harbour, and then while going to his house, he saw some lilies, and flashback, and we entered in a song sequence, well you may have seen this kind of setting before, and there are many cliches in the movie about which I am talking, but okay you can give it a watch. This man is Handsome, aka Rocky. Here’s the review of Rocky Handsome.
SPOILERS AHEAD. This 7th directorial venture from Nishikant Kamat, or 4th directed Hindi movie by him, produced by John Abraham himself talka about a man, whose past no body knows, from where he came but he owns a pawn shop in alleys of Goa, Known as Handsome aka Kabir Ahlawat(john Abraham) is a gue who minds his own business, but a little girl Naomi(Diya Chalwad) come in his life, and he started liking that girl as his own child. He has a very bad past, you can easily guess the backstory, what could happen to his loving wife Rukshida(Shruti Hassan). Now he got entangled in a don-war between the druglord Matoo(Uday Tikekar) & wannabe druglord & Matoo’s right hand Kevin(Nishikant Kamat), and now that girl Naomi is held captive by Kevin. Throw in a totally dumb police, with I-Dont-Know-what-the-heck-is-going-on expression and with just-do-what-you-can’t attitude headed by Ins.Dilip(Sharad Kelkar) who is following the good guy’s trail, instead of following the bad guy, and a brutal past of our anti-hero, and you got your story.
Nishikant is on the rise of having fans, count one from me, I have seen his earlier movies - Force, and Drishyam, and I am a big fan of Drishyam, I liked Force too. Though I am also interested in watching his other movies like Dombivali Fast & Lai Bhaari. His direction is good, wven after having a thin-line plot, which is derived from a Korean flick’The Man from nowhere’, this is its official remake, as I understood. The settings, intermixed with foreign locales like Seychelles & goa are wonderful. The movie gave a dark feel to you, just like some other John’s movies like KARAM & ZINDA, the difference, here’s the dark alleys are formed in India, a nice touch given by the camera works, and the action scenes, specially hand-to-hand combats. And loved that final knife-fight, superbly coordinated, a high point in the movie. While watching this movie, I remember some other movies of John alongwith the above 2, Paap is one of them. John suits so well to the silent killer kind of profiles, and I guess Nishikant has a liking towards a silent-but-brutal-with-expressionless-eyes kind of characters, liked Ajay played in Drishyam, here its John’s turn, and he is too good at it. Nishikant also throes in his acting skills and played the villain very well, but the movie is full of cliches. First of all the movie’s back story is Indianized, I havent watched the original flick, its downloading right now, but still it looks old to a bollywood movie viewer. The background score was nice, even I liked the tunes of songs used in the movie, but some of the content made this movie a little low on the impact part. One of such low IQ part which I didnt liked - he’s a special agent and his all past details were erased, but still he has same name, I guess the special agents always have a separate unknown profiles. That details is missed here, or have I watched so many spy movies, that I lost the count.
This movie is okay for one time watch, and especially watch it for John Abraham. The little girl Diya is okay, not better than BB’s girl, but lets not condemn, she’s a little girl yaar, she really pulls the role quite nicely, and if you remember BB’s girl dont have dialogues. 2 Scenes where she spoke, you feel the pain and you get intrigued by the scene. So I rate this movie as 3/5, its only 2 hrs long.
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Jai Raam ji ki:)