OUATIMD (Once Upon Ay Time In Mumbaai Dobara) is one of the few films that I wanted to watch at the start of the year, but unfortunately, the film seems to be too long for what it is.
This film is a love story...with action added into it, that actually looks very good.
Director Milan Luthria has made some absolutely amazing pieces of art on the silver screen but with this movie he can not put the same flavour, which unfortunately tarnishes the backbone of the film that is the character of Shohaib Khan (played by Akshay Kumar). Mr. Luthria has done quite well with the history part of the film, linking up his previous two films with this one. To be honest, all the scenes in the film were shot with fantastic precision and definitely looked the part on screen.
Shohaib was first introduced to us in the prequel to this film, Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, in which the role was played by Emraan Hashmi. He nailed that role and I'd even go as far to say that role played a key role in his stardom. However, if you have seen the first installment, you will be slightly unimpressed in the way Akshay Kumar portrays Shohaib Khan, due to the unncessary dramatisation of this role. That does not mean he did not do a good job, he was great but Hashmi just set too high a standard for this role. All that said. "Halfway into Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai Dobaara! Akshay Kumar playing the all-powerful, Dawood-style, murderous mafia don, declares: “Villain hoon main, villain.” He says it with such a menacing relish that I wanted to applaud. More than anything else in Milan Luthria's sequel he was "THE" man to watch!" Akshay was brilliantly menacing which was a good turn from what Hashmi played in the first part. Some of the dialogues given to him were terrific, no doubt about that. I won't say Hashmi could've done a better job because in this film, Shohaib Khan had to be a villianous mastermind who says stuff like "Mujhe accha banne ka koi shauk nahin hai." This review seems to be all about Akshay Kumar, but the film does revolve around him. He was the key part of this movie. Akshay unlocks the loneliness and heartache of the horrific villian that is Shohaib Khan.
Sonakshi Sinha (played Jasmine Sheikh) was typical Sonakshi, with the "bubbly" personality in the film, however, she actually did a very good job, especially when she had to scream in some of the emotional scenes. The emotion she was trying to emit came out exactly as it should have.
Imran Khan surprisingly played the role of Aslam, extremely well, showing the whole industry that he is Aamir Khan's nephew. I'm sure he must have gotten some tips from his uncle when he found out he was chosen for this role. No doubt his performance was very believable and you felt for the guy.
Everyone else that was casted in the film, played their roles well but with abit of over acting that was bound to happen with this type of sequel.
The story in OUATIMD is not a true story, and is a new touch to the characted of Shohaib Khan. It shows a softer side to him, the "emotional" side which we had not seen completely in its prequel. It is an old school love triangle with an action twist added on, which does make it a decent film to watch, but nothing that you would want to watch again. Ending may just surprise some of the viewers, apart from that, the film does not contain many twists that you don't see coming from a mile away. Through out the film, you will be engaged by the atmosphere that engulfs you, but the aura of this movie diminishes as the end credits roll.
Action....aaahhhhh.... very realistic, apart from the train sequence. SPOILER ALERT.... Imran Khan's entry into the film is on a train, where he is chasing some people, who he is stealing diamonds from. That whole section of the film, seems too unrealistic and filmy, but apart from that, all the rest of the action is spot on!
Box office wise the film has gone steady but not been a complete success either, which is a little surprsing for an Akshay Kumar and Sonakshi Sinha starrer. 40 crore in 4 days seems to be a good achievement for most films but with an extremely high budget movie like this, it's considered fairly mediocre.
Pritam does not reach his full potential with his 100th attempt at being a music director (well done to him) but I think the prequel had fantastic music (also done by Pritam). Songs like "Bismillah" and "Tu Hi Khwahish" were just added into the film to fill the quota of songs, which is a disappointment because "Ye Tu Ne Kya Kiya" and "Chugliyaan" are brilliantly composed and lyrically are great. "Tayyab Ali" is a humourous song, that was first made popular by Amar, Akbar and Anthony film in the 70's/80's but the song comes back with a bang in this film. The song is completely random and unncessary but even I laughed at parts of it.
"Yes, the film is over-wrought, melodramatic and designed as pulp fiction. But it’s intermittently fun. One of my favourite scenes was Shoaib going voluntarily to the police station. The cops are so busy trying to set up roadblocks to catch him that they don’t even notice that he’s standing there. It’s absurdly comic. And a special mention here of Sonali Bendre Behl, who shines in the few scenes she has.
Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbaai Dobara! had me cheering for the bad guy. Which, at least in the movies, is never a bad thing."
Finally, I do think this film was amazingly hyped up to be something it wasn't, unlike the previous part which was not hyped and turned out to be one of the great movies of 2010.
RATING SYSTEM
Performance 7/10
Direction 8/10
Story/Script 7/10
Action 8/10
Action 8/10
Music/Soundtrack 6/10
Cinematography 8/10
Cinematography 8/10
Choreography 6/10
I rate this film 7.14/10 "7.14 out of 10"Rating: Good! Experience it once, but not dobara!(again!)
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