By - Amit kumaR Agarwal
Great story and great trailer can be marred badly by bad screenplay and atrocious editing; Baaghi 4 is the perfect example of it. It is 'Darr' script gone majorly wrong, thanks to editing!
The film tells the story of Ronnie (Tiger Shroff) who after an accident claims that his girlfriend, Alisha (Harnaaz Sandhu) is missing. His brother, Jeetu (Shreyas Talpade) says no such girl exists. Things reach the cops; an attack on Ronnie introduces the villain, Jacko (Sanjay Dutt). Is he related to Alisha, or has he got some ulterior motive. Or like Alisha, even the attack and Jacko are a figment of Ronnie's imagination.
The story is good, the trailer was very good; but an atrociously shoddy editing has made the 4th film in the Baaghi franchise suffer and how - it will be seen, soon, by everybody associated with the film from the box-office outcome.
The film has a running time of 2hrs. 43minutes; why? Didn't the makers see that they could easily cut the film to 2hrs. to 2hrs.15minutes. for a much stronger impact. The first 30 minutes of the movie are overtly repetitive, nothing moves.
A. Harsha's direction is very weak, he had the meat in the story to fuse emotions, very important for the love story to connect, but he fails to build on it. During the edit he must have seen the film, didn't he realize, the hold is only in a few scenes and not in the entire narrative. Editing by Kiran Gowda and Nitin Pathak is atrociously bad.
Tiger Shroff is good. Sonam Bajwa and Upendra Limaye leave a mark. Sanjay Dutt has to change his style as a villain, more towards KGF2 kind of performance. Harnaaz Sandhu makes a confident debut, though she looks more convincing in the character with negative shades.
On the whole Baaghi 4 could have been a great addition to the franchise after Baaghi 1, 2, 3 - but falters majorly because of editing and partly due to the screenplay.
At the box-office film has taken a decent opening thanks to the trailer; but with just-about-average reports - Monday onwards, whatever collections will come, will come from the mass centres.