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Home > Bollywood Movie Reviews > Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag Ughh APK | August 31, 2007 Rating: * (***** Very Good, **** Good, *** Fair, ** Average, * Bad) User comments Action: Pradyuman Kumar. Art: Tina Dharamsey. Background Music: Amar Mohile. Choreography: Shabina Khan, Harshall, Vitthal, Ganesh Hegde & Justinn Bhatt. Cinematography: Amit Roy. Dialogues: Sajid-Farhad. Editing: Amit Parmar-Nipun Ashok Gupta. Lyrics: Shabbir Ahmed, Sajid, Farhad, Sarim Momin & Nitin Raikwar. Music: Ganesh Hegde, Amar Mohile, Prasanna Sekhar & Nitin Raikwar. Screenplay: Rahil Qazi. Producer-Director: Ram Gopal Varma. Banner: Adlabs Films Ltd. Release Date: 31st August, 2007.  Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag is Ram Gopal Varma's interpretation of the biggest Indian Blockbuster ever-Sholay. His interpretation is dull, drab and dark. Repetitive value of Sholay is optimum, while enduring RGV's so-called 'interpretation' is different. Even if you don't compare it to Sholay, as a separate movie, Aag.. sucks.Plot D-uh. Story, Screenplay and Direction Comparison with Sholay on basic levels: What stands out in Sholay are all the characters, dialogues, friendship between Jai and Veeru, intensity of the enmity between Thakur and Gabbar, background music for each specific character…the list goes on. Aag has badly written characters, bad casting, camera 'mad angles' direct from Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, loud noises (background music) and no proper establishment of the plot or characters. The basic plot is the same, with some changes. Ramgarh is now Kaliganj in Mumbai, with Babban instead of Gabbar. The title credit says 'Introducing Amitabh Bachchan' and Abhishek plays an unnecessary cameo. Rambha Bhai (Rajpal Yadav) and his 'Darling' in the first half is bearable, while Ajay Devgan with his 'Yes', Nisha Kothari with her 'Too much' is a bit too much. Life comes a full circle for AB, who reached starry heights playing Jai, is now playing the most famous villain in India, Gabbar. When Amjad Khan played Gabbar Singh, it was his first major role and he cast a huge impression on the audience. After Gabbar, Shakaal and Mogambo, the only villain who will be remembered is Bhiku Matre (RGV's Satya). In that sense, AB is passable. His laugh, the soft growl, his gestures et al fail to make an impression post the first half. RGV has a vision for the movie, and he sticks to this vision from the beginning to the end. Unfortunately, this vision is blurred and obscure. The forte of RGV is that he creates characters and makes many memorable moments in his movies-which Aag totally lacks.  Performances The whole focus is on Babban, played by AB. Compare him to Gabbar, Babban is a gimmicky villain. Look at Babban alone, AB is passable, which is sad, given that he has delivered some great performances recently. Mohanlal is good in whatever he does, except the Malayalam accent.Ajay Devgan, for some reason, is doing one bad movie after another (read Cash) and one hamming act after another. Prashant Raj is surprisingly okay, but hardly has any visibility. Sushmita Sen has good presence but hams a little and takes herself too seriously. Sushant Singh as Tambhe is convincing as is Rajpal Yadav. Nisha Kothari, the less said the better. She gets a lot of screen space, and is intolerable. Ajay-Nisha pairing is bad. Music and Dance Painful. Last Word Hype, publicity, promotion, RGV's name and AB as Gabbar/Babban will get the crowds to the theatre. Tolerance, patience and anger management is necessary to endure this torture called RGV Ki Aag. |