Bang Bang (2014)

Bang Bang is an official remake of Tom Cruise starrer Hollywood film Knight and Day. Some facts about Knight and Day: Estimated Budget: $117 Mn Estimated Gross Collections: $76.5 Mn It was a commercial entertainer with popular stars like Tom and Cameron which was supposed to make huge money but instead turned out to be a loss making venture. So when its production house Fox Studios decided to produce its Bollywood remake at a whopping cost of 140 Cr (~$22 Mn) you might question their business sense. But considering the recent big bollywood hits like Kick, Dhoom 3, Krrish 3 it was a good decision timed with a 5 days long festive weekend.

Movie has all the right ingredients to set the cash registers ringing; Good looking lead pair, Fancy Locales, Breathtaking stunts (3-4), Peppy music but still the director has been able to turn this into a boring and yawning experience. Mind you this requires some talent.

Film has a similar plot to the original one where Rajveer Nanda (Hrithik Roshan) is a stylish and immensely talented thief who has stolen Kohinoor diamond from London based on an open public challenge, to all concerned thieves, by an International terrorist Omar (Danny Denzongpa). For some reason (revealed in climax) Rajveer decides to not handover the diamond to Omar and this triggers a chase to get Kohinoor. Entire story revolves around this chase and ends with a long, tacky and glaringly clichéd climax.

Katrina is weaved into the plot as she encounters Rajveer by accident in a café where she is waiting for her blind date from some Dating website. She does what she has been doing for the last 7-8 yrs i.e. to look dumb (quite natural in that), look beautiful and dance well. It will be a crime to expect anything more out of her as she chooses her movies based on her areas of strength.

Other supporting actors don't have much to do as majority screen space is reserved for the lead pair. Still its refreshing to see actors like Kanwaljeet Singh and Deepti Nawal on screen after a long time.

Films dialogs and climax will take you back to the 80s action cinema. Climax is the same 'we will take the heroine, get the diamond to save her' kind of which we have experience with Pran and Ranjeet. Only difference is that Kali Pahadi has been replaced by Picturesque Prague.

Based on the trailer and hype surrounding the film, you might want to believe that it can be a decent watch but the long running time of 2 hrs 35 min makes you cry Stop the pain.

It has to be seen how much profitable it turns out for the makers but with such a massive budget even a 200 Cr collection will not result in good profits.

For the viewers only one thing. Mediocrity Alert!!! Watch it at your own boring risk!!

Fmovies: This is one awfully made movie I have watched in long time, seems as if director Siddharth Anand has determined to present us a next worse movie than he did last and he has succeeded here if not in making a good movie the least. This one is an official remake of another Flop "Knight and Day" released back in 2008, but the director declaring it an Official copy (err...remake) has taken the liberty of actually copying so many elements from so many movies not just from Hollywood but from our own Bollywood. Action sequences poor reminiscent of Ek Tha Tiger, Dhoom the sea beach scene reminiscing you of Kaho na pyaar hai...Don't know how many movies shall i mention here..even a moment where Katrina is offering here hand to a sinking Hrithik in sea, reminded me of a similar scene in Aamir's forgetful Talaash and Javed Jaffery felt to have a hangover of Singh is Kinng. Hardly anytime director have bothered to explain where Hrithik disappeared or how he managed jumping out of valley/bridge/hill or for that matter why worlds most wanted terrorists escaping from one of most secure prison takes only this little.

Just a pure waste of money, let Siddharth squander those of his producers. Save yours.

Bang Bang is official remake of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz's Knight And Day.There are many changes made in storyline.Siddharth Anand has done very nice direction.Music is given by Vishal-Shekhar.

Hrithik Roshan has done good job.Katrina is good and awful in some scenes.Danny is superb is every scenes.Cameo of Jimmy Shergil is quite good.

Storyline is slow.Movie gets more slower after interval.Songs made movie more boring.Songs are good except Uff but they break the chain of movie interest.First half is average and second one is awful.

Even i don't wanna write more for this movie.AWFUL !!

Overall,if you miss this movie then don't worry.You can watch if you want.Hardly one time watch.Not at all recommended!

Bang Bang fmovies. I watched it 1st day 1st show with some high expectations from this film however from the very first scene till the end it was nothing but a bad remake of Knight and Day.

Action, Dialogs, Drama, Theme everything (literally everything) was exactly copied.. there was nothing new in it.. no innovative ideas. I'm highly disappointed.

Overacting of Katrina Kaif is unbearable.

Verdict: Go watch Knight and Day. It is far better than this.

Please +1 this review so others can be warned about the same and do not make the same mistake as I did.

I have got to tell anyone who will listen that this is one of THE best adventure and Action movies in Bollywood I've ever seen.

The only word I can think of to describe this movie is AWESOME. It's amazing work and everything I had hoped for and more. It's exceptional entertainment for the uninitiated but it has everything a fan boy could want to be sure. It has every little nuance of what a fan boy wants to see.

The entire cast really delivered. You needed more than just action actors or stunt doubles to play all these parts. The pathos is there but so are the timing and true deep performances I honestly don't want to give away ANY of the movie with this review because this is one film that needs every scene to be savored This movie defines MUST SEE.

This movie defines bollywood development.. and Hrthik is awesome in this movie...

The formula to make a blockbuster is very easy. Some action, some romance, some comedy, mix in some songs and a beautiful cast, and voilà. See how there's no mention of the story-line. Because a masala movie don't really require one. That's not an issue however. Sometimes people just want to be entertained.

Unfortunately movies like Bang Bang are made every year. The formula remains the same, only the cast changes. People who knows the formula watches the bootleg version online or waits couple of months to watch it on TV. People who are bored on the weekend go and watches it in theatre. And the success of these type of movie means people will continue to do so year after year. All I have to do is copy and paste this review every year.

If I never watched a Hollywood movie, then I'll be as amazed as half the target audience who don't understand and watch English language films. Unfortunately Hollywood inspired or adapted Bollywood movies loses its charm when you saw the original many of times. Again not a problem for the producer and the director because they know exactly who their movie audience is. So keep an eye out every year for unoriginal masala movies to reign in box offices. It's up to you if you want to directly fund the next unoriginal journey. So what'll it be? Bootleg, TV, or theatre?