Himmatwala (2013) - Review

I found Himmatwala quite tiresome and waited with patience for the movie to end,though climax does have a very good scene of Zareena Wahab.Though she does reminds us of the similarity between Agneepath and this movie.Paresh Rawal tries hard to imitate Kader Khan but fails miserably.Ajay Devgan delivers good performance here and has several good scenes here,but he alone could not carry this weak imitation of a 80's hit on his shoulders.This movie has all the cliches you can think of,of a 1980's film.Sajid Khan and his colleagues who have grown up in 1980's consider this most violent decade of Hindi films as the greatest and keep getting inspired by 80's masala pot-boilers.I have yet to see Jeetendra's Himmatwala,but do know that would be better than this weak movie for it has Sridevi too.But do know this people who have seen the earlier film are bound to find this disappointing.

The movie starts promisingly with "Thank God its Friday song".But the costume changes of  Sonakshi Sinha are really awful.Ajay Devgan does looks different and better in his introduction scene.Tamanna Bhatia is the leading lady here who  fails to impress and is as white as a Ghost.

Mahesh Manjrekar performs well in this movie and at first I was unable to recognize him.He plays his character with utmost conviction.Asrani too is funny here Rajendra Gupta and Riteish Deshmukh have short but pivotal role.Javed Jafri has a guest appearance.Anil Dhawan plays Ajay Devgan's father.

 "Naino Mein Sapna" song is done well here,the sets and costumes are exquisite and after a long time you hear Amit Kumar singing for a lead actor.There's a remarkable scene of Ajay Devgan wrestling a Tiger.Who later on comes to save his life in the climax after his mom prays to goddess Durga to save his son from Goonda elements.Also there's a scene adapted from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho",where Ajay Devgan scares Mahesh Manjrekar into imagining himself as Janet Leigh's character and Ajay turning into The Psycho attacking him with Bamboo stick rather than a knife.

People who grew up in the 1980's will find it run-of-the-mill,other young crowd  may find it entertaining in a different way.And it does still have several positives.This is a weakly scripted film from Sazid Khan,who has given audience three blockbuster movies previously.He fails to adapt the 1980's blockbuster properly.