Baaghi - Movie Review 🐯

Baaghi is Tiger Shroff's ode to Karate Kid and raid 2 rolled into one with some Kickass tribute to The 36th chamber of Shaolin.
I never had high expectations from Baaghi after its trailers mainly cos i was wary of the director Sabbir khan who was behind duds like Kambhakt Ishq. I have to take my words back coz he has literally stunned me.
Scratch the attractive surface though, and you get a dated, cliched storyline that compartmentalises hero, heroine, villains and comedians in the way Hindi films of the 1970s and 1980s did. Buh that's Ohkay, coz the action choreography is striking, the locations are exquisite, the camerawork polished, the art design impressive, the cast well dressed.
Sabbir has given Tiger shroff all the great moments that one expects from a star of his calibre. He has the karate kid moment with real life grandmaster Shifu Shaurya Bhardwaj (the guru) in Kalaripayattu. He has Iko Uwais moment in raid in the pre climax fight.
BUT THE BEST OF ALL is the climax fight. I was BLOWN. The one on one of Tiger with Sudheer Raghav (excellent and evenly matched villain to tiger Shroff). I was overwhelmed. I am yet to see this type of masterly direction from great filmmakers let alone Sabbir.
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Performances-

▶Tiger Shroff is awe- inspiring in action scenes and a total bad ass in the second half.  Loved it . He is sincere and earnest in romantic portions though goes OTT in scenes before interval. He gets the bulk of the film's fights and has clearly worked hard to learn Kalari. Many points to him for that and what he has achieved with his body.
▶ Shraddha's acting in the early scenes though, is over-cutesified. Time to cross over into the adult world, girl. You are too good to waste yourself playing and replaying a child-like innocent who is an appendage to the hero.

▶Sunil Grover spices up the comic quotient with his own style.

▶Raghav, the nemesis is supremely talented and a fitting match to tiger.

▶But the greatest has to be Shifu Shaurya Bhardwaj. He is the Katappa of Baaghi. The man who choked me in the climax fight.

❤ This proves that tiger isn't a One-Hit Wonder. ❤

Rating : ❤❤❤ (bigtime guilty pleasure)

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