Salmans star-power

After Wanted,Salman Khan has realised that audiences in Indias hinterlands still wants the slam-bang formula. This Idd,Dabangg was released with a bigger,louder and rustic action feast with an innocent love story inside the package. However,it lacks originality and belongs to the Manmohan Desai genre of filmmaking that has no logic. Debutant Abhinav Kashyap tries to drum up the same old story of step brothers Salman and Arbaaz uniting in the end. We understand that scriptwriters are in a Pause mode these days and the producers are busy refreshing the past but we expect a degree of coherence in the plot and some punch in the dialogues to reivive the mood of the 70s. Abhinav gives us two elaborate fight sequences in close succession with the same set of goons. The hero jumps into the room when the heroine is changing 8211; generations have grown up watching this timeless introduction. This would still have worked had the lines had something new to offer.

As for the music of the film,it has already been topping the charts especially the Lalit Pandit item number Munni badnaam hui. Sonakshi Sinha makes a confident debut reminding of an era where faces used for emotions and heroines were not going in for size-zero figures. The film belongs to Salman Khan,who blazes the screen with his scorching screen presence. Salman charms the audiences with his display of freestyle performance which cannot be termed as acting. In fact hes got such star-power that hes made this ridiculous script work at the box-office.
Raghu Chandra Parsa,Secunderabad