Dabangg Reviews

Chulbul Pandey, co-written by writer-director Abhinav Kashyap and enacted by Salman Khan, is the most thunderously crackling character I’ve seen in a Bollywood film in months.

In the last few years, Salman Khan has headlined films that are, by his standards, relatively high-concept. But he ends the decade as he began it – with an unconscionably silly action film.

Can you imagine the irony of it all? As the focus is on protests and the police’s reaction to it across the country, we get a movie eulogising a fictional cop who beats, maims and slaps criminals, his subordinates and general…

Dabangg is a movie that throws all notions of subtlety out of the window and presents to you a picture that celebrates the loud and the kitschy.If you are the kind of a person who enjoys men’s locker-room humour and thinks that…

Sorry, even in the name of a mindless, paisa vasool entertainer (!?), first-time director Abhinav Singh Kashyaps Dabangg just doesnt give you sufficient bang for your bucks.

In terms of story, Dilip Shukla and Abhinav Kashyap offer no novelty as films with similar plot lines family drama, mothers death, love story between a police officer and a simple girl, enmity between local politician and police…

Intended as a throwback to those masala 70s potboilers set in the hinterland of India, Dabangg has the ambition and the imagination, it appears, but suffers on account of schizophrenic writing.

Robert Rodriguez, maker of the cult Western Desperado, starring Antonio Banderas, would have been proud of Dabangg.

For anybody who wants to know what is the on-screen definition of Bollywood (read popular mainstream Hindi cinema), Dabangg is truly text book fare.