Naam
Shabana: Skip it Baby!
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Reviewer’s
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Shivam Nair's film
Naam Shabana is nowhere near to what Neeraj Pandey did with 'A Wednesday', 'Baby'
and 'Special 26'. Naam Shabana fails utterly to cash in the talents of powerhouse
actors like Manoj Bajpayee, Danny Dengzopa (Feroze Khan), Anupam Kher
(Shuklaji), Manav Vij and Zakir Hussain. The South Indian heartthrob Prithviraj
Sukumaran (Tony) who has dished out fabulous roles earlier down south is wasted
in this Bollywood outing as a villain. These actors are dwarfed to do nothing
significant. Akshay Kumar (Ajay Singh Rajput) does nothing different here. He appears
like a hero and vanishes too like a hero. Unfortunately, their presence doesn't
elevate the film to an edge of the seat kind of a thriller.
Naam Shabana's
titular role is played by Taapsee Pannu. She is good in action sequences but
falls short in portraying a character who fights hard to hide her vulnerability
and the required panache to be a secret agent.
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The film tells us the
journey of a middle class Mumbai Muslim girl who is picked up by a secret
agency for a special task to eliminate an international arms dealer. The agency
claims to have some strong reasons and observations to recruit Shabana as one among them and Shabana has her own personal
interest to toe the line of the agency. Neeraj Pandey's good intentions to
portray a strong woman who can easily bring road Romeos to their knees falls
flat when she change her garb from a normal college girl to a special task
agent. Shabana as an agent is seen protected, rescued and even spoon-fed by the
male agents around her.
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Naam Shabana even stumbles
to give us a heartening love story and nor does it have some hummable romantic
numbers. Like any other recent movies it also succumbs to the beaten path of playing
out a new version of the old song 'Zubi Zubi'. Music composed by Rochak Kohli
and Meet Bros are not mediocre.
In short, if you have
any other priorities this week then skip this film 'baby' or watch it without any
expectations you developed watching the previous film 'Baby'. Two hours and twenty eight minutes is too long
for this under cooked action thriller.
Life
Connoisseur Movie Rating: 2/5
Cast:
Taapsee Pannu (Shabana Khan), Akshay Kumar (Ajay Singh Rajput), Prithviraj
Sukumaran (Tony), Manoj Bajpayee (Ranvir Singh), Anupam Kher (Om Prakash
Shukla), Danny Denzongpa (Feroz Ali Khan), Taher Shabbir Mithalwala
Genre:
Action, Thriller
Director:
Shivam Nair
Producers:
Neeraj Pandey, Shital Bhatia
Written
by:
Neeraj Pandey
Screenplay:
Neeraj Pandey
Music
by:
Rochak Kohli, Meet Bros
Cinematography:
Sudheer Palsane
Edited
by:
Deepak Seju
Production:
Friday FilmWorks, Cape of Good Films
Distributor:
Eros International
Release
Date: 31st March, 2017
Duration:
148 Minutes
Language:
Hindi
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