"Wanted a good, plain entertaining film; no baggage attached". The ad is doing the rounds for quite some time but hardly find any takers. But if you keep all mindless and illogical things aside, film Wanted fitted the bill and that too quite perfectly. A remake of Tamil hit Pokhiri, which Producer Boney Kapoor mounted on a large canvass and débutant director (for Hindi films) ace-choreographer cum dancer Prabhu dheva handled deftly, crafted neatly with lot of panache.
Salman Khan is in top form and his whole persona is used to the hilt by his trademark mannerisms. In Prakash raj, Hindi film audience has found a new menacing Villain who finally wins everybody's hatred and you want him to get bashed up in the end. Mahesh Manjrekar also played corrupt cop that you love to hate. After a long time, ace stunt coordinator Vijyan from south has done a Hindi film and he surprises you. It is Major a stunt film but the gore, the blood shed and raw violence is spared by executing the action sequences quite stylishly and using good acrobatics & effects. . The best thing is this genre is being re-discovered and some film makers are exploring new dimensions in it. Hence, it is not your routine dhishoom dhishoom kind of yuck cinema. It is feel good cinema. It is fast paced and crisp. The film is again rooted in underworld but rather than going into the usual bhaigiri grim stuff, here whole treatment is light. Nevertheless it is more like stuff from the south but minus the usual melodrama, thankfully. Be it songs or dances (though unnecessary for narrative), humor or drama, there is something for those also who are not die hard action film buffs. The clever, witty one liners are smartly used in dialogs.
All in all a well scripted, directed, photographed & acted film.. Isn't it something that you have always WANTED ?
Salman Khan is in top form and his whole persona is used to the hilt by his trademark mannerisms. In Prakash raj, Hindi film audience has found a new menacing Villain who finally wins everybody's hatred and you want him to get bashed up in the end. Mahesh Manjrekar also played corrupt cop that you love to hate. After a long time, ace stunt coordinator Vijyan from south has done a Hindi film and he surprises you. It is Major a stunt film but the gore, the blood shed and raw violence is spared by executing the action sequences quite stylishly and using good acrobatics & effects. . The best thing is this genre is being re-discovered and some film makers are exploring new dimensions in it. Hence, it is not your routine dhishoom dhishoom kind of yuck cinema. It is feel good cinema. It is fast paced and crisp. The film is again rooted in underworld but rather than going into the usual bhaigiri grim stuff, here whole treatment is light. Nevertheless it is more like stuff from the south but minus the usual melodrama, thankfully. Be it songs or dances (though unnecessary for narrative), humor or drama, there is something for those also who are not die hard action film buffs. The clever, witty one liners are smartly used in dialogs.
All in all a well scripted, directed, photographed & acted film.. Isn't it something that you have always WANTED ?