I am told this is an adaptation of the real life story of Abu Salem and his girl friend Monica Bedi. Shiny Ahuja is the gangster Daya and on the run he one day runs into an unsophisticated bar girl Simran. Simran saves him from the pursuing police and then love inevitably follows. Daya and Simran have to flee to escape the clutches of Khan (Gulshan Grover), the underworld boss. Somehow a child gets into this mix.. why? The child is killed, Daya is somehow in the middle east and Simran in Seoul. In Seoul she meets and falls in love with Akash (Emran Hashmi), a night club singer. Daya discovers this, a jealous confrontation follows. Simran is torn between Akash and Daya, betrays one and is betrayed by the other. The end is a Utopian togetherness in green fields of something...
The plot is riddled with problems, and the dialog is quite clichéd and silly at times. The unsophisticated bar girl turns sophisticate really fast, and plays the victim in a nauseating sort of way. Emraan Hashmi reminds me of a bunny rabbit with his short upper lip and teeth showing. His lip locks with Kangana made me a bit sick - kissing is one thing, eating someone is another. I have always liked Shiny but here he fell a bit short - the angry moments were okay but the weeping was very artificial and the overall role was not very appealing. So in the end Kangana was the one who came out ahead of these seasoned actors - perhaps she even deserved her most promising newcomer award. I saw Woh Lamhe before this and loved it, but I worry that she will always play the victimized girl - both roles were almost interchangeable.
The music was very nice, loved Ya Ali - copied or not, other songs were very good too. In the end I found Gangster to be an OK film, not particularly engaging or appealing but still with some indefinable quality that most films lack these days. Maybe it was the little twist at the end but the last third of the movie was the best part. A word of advice to Kangana - if the next role demands a hospital scene or a victimized person - please say no, it is too early in your career to get typecast. And say no to Mahesh Bhatt, please.
The direction was okay - why was everything so dark and enclosed throughout the film. And is it fair to the Koreans to show them nonchalantly going about their business while a man is being beaten to death in front of their eyes? They do have cell phones you know and the police is a mere phone call away.
The plot is riddled with problems, and the dialog is quite clichéd and silly at times. The unsophisticated bar girl turns sophisticate really fast, and plays the victim in a nauseating sort of way. Emraan Hashmi reminds me of a bunny rabbit with his short upper lip and teeth showing. His lip locks with Kangana made me a bit sick - kissing is one thing, eating someone is another. I have always liked Shiny but here he fell a bit short - the angry moments were okay but the weeping was very artificial and the overall role was not very appealing. So in the end Kangana was the one who came out ahead of these seasoned actors - perhaps she even deserved her most promising newcomer award. I saw Woh Lamhe before this and loved it, but I worry that she will always play the victimized girl - both roles were almost interchangeable.
The music was very nice, loved Ya Ali - copied or not, other songs were very good too. In the end I found Gangster to be an OK film, not particularly engaging or appealing but still with some indefinable quality that most films lack these days. Maybe it was the little twist at the end but the last third of the movie was the best part. A word of advice to Kangana - if the next role demands a hospital scene or a victimized person - please say no, it is too early in your career to get typecast. And say no to Mahesh Bhatt, please.
The direction was okay - why was everything so dark and enclosed throughout the film. And is it fair to the Koreans to show them nonchalantly going about their business while a man is being beaten to death in front of their eyes? They do have cell phones you know and the police is a mere phone call away.