Release date: 10 September 2010
Language: Hindi
Cast: Salman Khan, Tinnu Anand, Malaika Arora, Dimple Kapadia, Arbaaz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Anupam Kher, Mahesh Manjrekar, Om Puri, Sonu Sood and others
Genres: Action, Romance, Comedy, Thriller
Language: Hindi
Cast: Salman Khan, Tinnu Anand, Malaika Arora, Dimple Kapadia, Arbaaz Khan, Vinod Khanna, Anupam Kher, Mahesh Manjrekar, Om Puri, Sonu Sood and others
Genres: Action, Romance, Comedy, Thriller
Review : So here it is. A new genre of cinema. The Spaghetti Eastern. The velocity is virulent. The violence is relentless. The narrative doesn’t pause for action. It is between bouts of the violence that characters take a breather to say things to one another that they don’t really mean.
This then is “Dabangg”. A world swarming with uni-dimensional characters who seem to know exactly which way the fists fly. We certainly don’t. The comic book hero Chulbul Pandey, played with lip smacking pleasure by Salman Khan, shows up in every dingy warehouse in this mofussil town to settle scores, man to man.
“Dabangg” is the kind of oldfashioned family drama combined with a vendetta saga that we thought had gone out of fashion in the 1980s. Chulbul Pandey could have been played by Amitabh Bachchan 30 years ago. Yes, that killing comic dimension that Salman brings into his characters has its roots in the Big B’s action-comedy films.
“Dabangg” is the kind of oldfashioned family drama combined with a vendetta saga that we thought had gone out of fashion in the 1980s. Chulbul Pandey could have been played by Amitabh Bachchan 30 years ago. Yes, that killing comic dimension that Salman brings into his characters has its roots in the Big B’s action-comedy films.
And Dimple Kapadia, wheezing, coughing, groaning and ranting her way through the mother’s role (what got into Dimple???) hams her way through this action drama where being opulently outrageous comes naturally to everyone.