Toofan

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Toofan premiered today on Amazon and I watched it being a fan of Farhan Akhtar. My expectations of him have arisen especially after watching him emote brilliantly in movies like Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag. And I am not at all disappointed by Farhans acting skills. From the movie it is very clear that Farhan has had to put in a lot of effort besides his own histrionic skills. Putting on weight, then loosing all of that must have been quite a daunting task. For his diehard fans all the impressive abs, six packs were on show. The boxing ring scenes were choreographed very well and looked natural. Looks like Farhan had to take quite a few punches in his stride.
This is what I love about Farhan. He gets into the skin of the character and lives the role. Here it was Aziz Ali a street fighter turned a professional boxer. But then the transition from an ordinary slum dweller to a professional Boxer, it was super quick, this is a movie and there are obviously few things that you learn to ignore when you watch. Mrunal Thakur as Farhan Akhtars love interest-Ananya in the movie is a plain jane doctor and has nothing much to offer other than inspiring the hero into turning a professional boxer from his unkempt, uncivilized ways. There is a religion tonality that gets thrown in but only for a brief while.

Paresh Rawal as Nana Prabhu, Farhans boxing coach has played his part in the movie and shows his class. Wish he would do more movies and has a lot to offer to Hindi Cinema. A wonderful actor like Mohan Agashe is wasted totally in the movie as Paresh Rawals close friend.

Movie itself has nothing new to offer. Its the same old wine in a new bottle. Hero is the underdog, gives up his wrong path, after being inspired by the young lady doctor to turn into a professional boxer. However falls prey to match fixing/betting to lose his boxing licence. How he redeems himself and becomes the National boxing Champion forms the rest of the story. A movie thats a tad bit long, drags on a little too much. My score : 5 out of 10, a Time pass watch for once, given that there has been a drought as far as movie launches are concerned. Wish a class actor like Farhan is kept away from doing formula movies like this.

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