Badlapur

Cast:  Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Varun Dhawan, Huma Qureshi, Vinay Pathak, Divya Dutta, Radhika Apte(Kanchan) and Yami Gautam
Director: Sriram Raghavan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller


It is not an all mass movie, but easily one of the best quality watch Bollywood has offered in months together!



You may look forward to:

• Varun Dhawan has made his place in the industry with this one. Class apart performance, as against any expectations from an otherwise chocolaty boy hero. He takes you through an intense and unpredictable ride of a deteriorating mental picture of a completely sane man over a period of two decades, a perfectly normal man from a hero to a villain!
• Nawazuddin Siddiqui is an outstanding performer as usual. A stable mind with crazy hopes and faith with the world he left outside the bars he was caged in for most of his life. He makes you laugh, empathize and as well be hated. This fellow is a living example of the fact that one need not be good looking to be an actor. Astonishingly, a villain who turns a hero by the end of the movie!
• Huma Qureshi has a commendable role in this movie, not delving too deep in her profession, but the relation she shares with these men and her take on these men, very subtle yet very impactful
• Vinay Pathak, Divya Dutta and Radhika Apte, are awesome supports. Every character of this movie has very well defined roles, every caricature so well written and so well played
• What works amazingly well for the movie is its screenplay and the direction. Sriram Raghavan leaves absolutely no stone unturned in ensuring that the audience is constantly intrigued all along the movie, to keep guessing what is gonna happen next. He presents to you an entire 2 hours and 15 minutes long movie with not even a single scene predictable. The movie doesnt run on a fast pace, yet you are all the while sitting on the edge 
• The dialogues are very well written. Amazingly not even a single joke but yet the movie has appropriately induced humor in its place, you laugh and you giggle time to time
• Music of the movie is already doing pretty good. The numbers 'Jee Karda' and 'Jeena Jeena' are exceptionally good
• The take away of the movie is a very subtle message that goes out where even though the role of 'Varun Dhawan' is projected that of a victim who seeks revenge, is never appreciated nor supported. The message goes out very delicately and implicitly where in the climax, Nawazuddin Siddiqui silently becomes a hero leaving Varun Dhawan wondering what has he achieved after all the 15 years and a revenge! Very strongly put across!

What you can sleep over:

Yami Gautam is wasted, she doesn't have much to do in the film




The dampeners you should be aware of:

Just one instance where i felt that the director wrongfully tried to distract the audience, where in 'Raghav' is shown getting along with 'Shobha' on a date, and you see 'Raghav' pushing through another plastic wrapped body outside the room indicating that 'Raghav' kills 'Shobha'. That particular scene was out of place and was not required

My Rating: 4/5