Mr. Natwarlal

To honor the epitome of acting, I decided to watch a Big-B movie on his birthday. And I was so glad to see this movie - a complete entertainer, not that this movie did not have twists and turns, fights and songs just like Ram Balram, but it had good direction. Rakesh Sharma did a good job at it.

Rajesh Roshan's song-collection is not great but for the 2 numbers - an adorable children song sung by AB himself - 'Mere Paas Aao' and 'Pardesia'. This just confirms my belief that Rakesh Roshan, brother of Rajesh, manages to extract better work out of Rajesh for former's home production.

Whatever be said about AB's acting and style in this movie, is not only less but also will not do justice to latter. A must movie for AB fans. One can just adore Bachchan for his
               - ever-prominent dialogue delivery
               - cute-face-making capabilities
               - stylish-personalized suits from Kachins clothing in Mumbai

Rekha has done a decent job but AB hardly allows anyone else to share screen with him. Not that it's his fault but the expectations are too high :). I would mention a few exceptions being Dileep Kumar in Shakti, Abhishek Bachchan in Sarkar, etc. :)


Story: Girdhari Lal (Ajit) is a honest police cop, and is a road-blocker for Vikram (Amjad Khan), the baddie. Vikram tries to kill Girdhari Lal and his family but all in vain. Though, as a result, Girdhari Lal and his pregnant wife lose their son and cannot be parents again. Girdhari Lal's wife considers Natwar (AB), younger brother of Girdhari Lal, as her son.

Natwar, as a child, has been deeply impacted by these series of incidents and he ends up being a cheat. The rest of the plot is surrounding as to how AB settles his vengeance against Vikram. Involved in plot are residents of a village, Chandanpur, close to border and rich in diamond mines. These residents are tortured by Vikram through a tigress and made slaves to work in those mines illegaly.

Both Ajit and Amjad Khan have done good jobs. It is nice to see Ajit in a positive role, though in one particular scene, you see him delivering dialogues the way he did in Zanjeer. Kadar Khan has written the dialogues for this movie and he himself is in movie as Chandanpur's mukhiya (sarpanch). In some of the dialogues, you see the typical Kadar Khan touch - exaggeration of stuff, lengthy, addressing humanity, God, etc. to no bounds.

For folks in general, this a mediocre movie but children would love this movie and so would hard-core AB fans, just like me ;). Here's wishing AB many many happy returns of the day. :)

Rating: 3.0/5.0