Salman Khan in Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan. (courtesy: beingsalmankhan)

Cast: Salman Khan, Pooja Hegde, Venkatesh, Bhumika Chawla, Shehnaaz Gill, Palak Tiwari, Vijender Singh, Raghav Juyal and Jassie Gill

Director: Farhad Samji

Rating: One star (out of 5)

In Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, the righteous and invincible male protagonist has three brothers who he dotes on and a lover whose household he vows to guard in any respect prices. That is a big load to hold in a movie as wafer-thin as this one. Lead actor Salman Khan takes the onus upon himself, pulls out the stops and splits his Bhaijaan persona into two.

Neither delivers the products as a result of the star falls between two stools and plummets to an all-time low. KKBKKJ, directed by Farhad Samji, is an insufferably ham-fisted affair that’s prone to have two distinct results on the viewers (except, in fact, you’re a fan of the celebrity and are keen to be lenient). The first half is a spectacularly scrappy snooze-fest, the second a headache-inducing free-for-all. Both are sans a shred of logic.

In the primary half, the lead actor sports activities lengthy, flowing hair and mouths inanities about fraternal love and social responsibility. In the second, he has a brief mop however continues to trot out minutiae about violence and non-violence because the motion shifts to the sprawling residence of a household in South India.

No matter what the star does, and regardless of what the motley crowd of actors round him tries, Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan doesn’t generate a single second that may very well be thought to be passably entertaining. Even the movie’s motion sequences – there are numerous – can’t break away from the stranglehold of monotony.

The writing scrapes the underside of the barrel. The performing fares no higher despite the fact that Venkatesh Daggubati as an epitome of advantage and Jagapathi Babu as malevolence personified step into the breach in an try to rescue the movie from its plasticky drudgery and inject some shrill, old style good-versus-evil melodrama into the proceedings.

KKBKKJ, foolish and sluggish, is the form of Mumbai movie that may put an overflowing garbage can to disgrace. Its principal premise rests on a person’s determination to not marry as a result of he fears that the appearance of a lady in his life would destroy his deep bond together with his brothers.

The concept is cringeworthy all the best way! If you’re considering a variation on Satte Pe Satte, KKBKKJ is unquestionably no Chauke Pe Chauka. If something, it ought to have been titled At Sixes and Sevens!

Two teams of males – one within the National Capital, the opposite in Hyderabad or thereabouts – have their eyes on a Delhi mohalla the place Bhaijaan (Salman Khan) lives together with his three brothers – Love (Siddharth Nigam), Ishq (Raghav Juyal) and Moh (Jassie Gill).

The neighborhood is as protected as a home so long as the hero is round to maintain watch over its residents. An opening combat sequence establishes that reality past an iota of doubt. Once the goons are despatched packing, the brothers rejoice with a tune and dance set piece. That is a sample that the movie follows proper till the top – a bunch of scenes is adopted by a tune whether or not it is sensible or not.

All three of Bhaijaan’s brothers have girlfriends, however they can’t consider settling down till Bhaijaan agrees to marry. So, they set him up with Bhagyalakshmi (Pooja Hegde), a newcomer to the colony. The lady’s identify has a meta echo.

In a quick early detour, Bhaijaan finds himself in Mumbai on the marriage ceremony of (Salman Khan’s Maine Pyar Kiya heroine) Bhagyashree’s son. The actress, her real-life husband Himalaya Dassani and their son Abhimanyu put in an look as themselves – about the one passage within the movie that strikes a little bit of a chord. The relaxation is all a shoddy shaggy-dog story.

Back residence in Telangana, Bhagya, who turns into pal with Bhaijaan’s siblings, has an elder brother (Venkatesh Daggubati), who hates violence and individuals who perpetrate it. Bhagya is alarmed to determine that Bhaijaan and his bros are a really, very violent lot.

All the misgivings and worries however, there isn’t a dearth of violence within the movie’s second half as Nageshwara (Jagapathi Babu) unleashes his males on the household of Balakrishnan (Venkatesh Daggubati), which incorporates his mom (Rohini Hattangadi), spouse (Bhumika Chawla) and, in fact, his sister Bhagyalakshmi.

The movie additionally has a nattily attired pugilist Vijender Singh essaying the position of a villain, an MLA bent on grabbing the patch of land that belongs to Bhaijaan and his neighbours. As an actor, his punches by no means fairly land.

Salman Khan by no means deigns to loosen his grip on the narrative, not even when Venkatesh is at hand to share among the load. The star overshadows the character and the narrative (or no matter there may be of it) so fully that there isn’t a scope for something or anyone within the movie growing past the movie’s cardboard cutout dimensions.

Hearing a man sing completely off-tune, Bhaijaan’s romantic curiosity complains: Gaane ki band baja raha hai. She might nicely have been referring to what many members of the movie’s forged have gone and finished to the craft of performing out right here in a span of two and a half hours – left it in tatters.

At one other level within the movie, she confesses that hamari geography aur historical past sab galat hai. Precisely. Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan is a travesty of gigantic proportions it doesn’t matter what geography you belong to, what historical past you imagine in and what you assume cinema must be. A foul movie is a foul movie. KKBKKJ is past dangerous.