Movie Review: Wanted (2009)
Cast: Salman Khan, Aayesha Takia Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Aseem Merchant, Vinod Khanna
Producer: Boney Kapoor
Director: Prabhu Dheva
Music Director: Sajid-Wajid
EXCLUSIVE REVIEW BY HANUMANT BHANSALI
The movie is probuced by Boney Kapoor and marks the directorial debut for one of the best and ace choreographer Prabhu Deva in Bollywood. To make the hard impact on the audience with his very first film Prabhu ropes in the superstar Salman Khan along with Ayesha Takia, Mahesh Manjrekar, Asseem Merchant, Sajid and Vinod Khanna and it WORKS!
The film is a remake of a regional film named ‘Pokiri’. Wanted is a complete entertainer and is full of Bollywood masala from action-roamnce and humour-sombre, the movie has them all.
The project revolves around a trained fighter and sharpshooter called Radhe (Salman Khan) who joins the underworld gang of Gani Bhai (Prakash Raj). Radhe is a fearless, chilled out man but at the same time rebellious. He likes doing things which are against the authority.
Mafia don, Gani Bhai (Prakash Raj) is a deadly person and both his friends and foes are afraid of him. He is the kind of person who without much efforts can kill his enemy and so nobody dares to go against him. On the other hand, there is Commissioner Ashraf Khan [Govind Namdeo] who promises to make the city crime free.
Apart from action, Jahnvi (Ayesha Takia Azmi) brings in some romance in the movie. Radhe is amaze with Janhvi’s love for him and falls for her. The movie also sees the guest appearance by Anil Kapoor, Govinda and Prabhu Dehva in the song Jalwa.
The climax of the movie is breath taking as one sees Salman Khan with maniac anger and bashing all the evils centre and forward. This proves why only Salman Khan could do justice with the role. It’s a complete one man show and would be a path-breaking movie for Salman Khan.
The movie marks the comeback of superstar Salman Khan in a true sense and sees some great acting that had been subtle or lost somewhere in the actor in the recent years. Prabhu Dheva’s direction has been excellent and par in few scenes as he executes the death defying stunts and some handsome choreography.
However there are few drawbacks in the movie. First to begin with the music of the movie isn’t that great and songs except ‘Jalwa’ and ‘Love Me’ fail to make any impact. Secondly the movie could have been shorter if few songs and scenes could have been edited. And lastly, there is nothing new about the story and audience can easily predict the sequences.
A sure treat for everyone this weekend and especially for action lovers as well as Salman Khan’s fans. This one is surely the movie for which the audience and Salman Khan would have been waiting for. A sure-shot hit and paisa vasool movie. Go catch the WANTED Salman Khan in theatres near you.
Radiosargam Movie Rating: 6/10
Hanumant Bhansali
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after so many days sallu is back with a bang.
Why don’t you spend some time to find out the details of the original film? Like how the original is a Telugu film. After its success, it was remade in Tamil and now in Hindi. What is your problem with just saying “a remake of Telugu film Pokiri”.