Akayla

My childhood memoirs of this movie
* the new villain was very frightening
* the song 'Meri Rampiyaari', very popular amongst kids
* an overall bore

So, why would I watch or write a review on this one? To save you from the pains that I bore on a Sunday evening. Not really. It so happened that while browsing youtube, I came across this movie with the preview photo of an inspector that resembled Monish Behl. I wonder that is it really Mohnish Behl who acted with the famous Big B? And that got me started to this painful journey.

I had initially planned to see just one part before I continue hunting down another movie for the holidays. But then big names started flashing - Amitabh Bachchan, Amrita Singh, Jackie Shroff, Meenakshi Sheshadri, Laxmikanth Pyarelal, Ramesh Sippy! I recollected only AB and Amrita Singh. But the rest of the names made me wonder if I was being harsh on this movie. Ok! I would give it a try. After all, how bad can it be given Ramesh Sippy gave us Sholay, Shaan, Seeta aur Geeta and much more.


Coming to the story section. Did I hear you mutter: Is there a story? Sigh! There's one very predictable and unnecessarily elongated one.

Story: Vijay Varma (Amitabh Bachchan), Shekhar (Jackie Shroff) and Seema (Meenakshi Seshadri) are college friends. Seema and Vijay are in love but never disclose to each other. Shekhar loves Seema (completing the typical Hindi triangular love story). Shekhar asks Vijay to aid him in asking Seema's hand in marriage from Seema's mother (Helen). Vijay decides to sacrifice love for friendship and takes to alcohol ever since. His only solace lies in his brother Ajay(Aditya Panscholi), who loves Neeta (Kiran Juneja, after all she is director's wife and needs to be casted). Ajay stays in college as he continues his education while being a teaching assistant.

Vijay is a very lonely police officer (hence the title Akayla) whose aim in life to is to kill criminals to get rid of crime. As a result, he finds quite often disreputing himself and the police department. Consequently, having verbal disputes with the police commissioner (Shashi Kapoor) as well. Vijay finds his lost love interest in Sapna (Amrita Singh) who he meets while saving her from Ranjeet's (Mahesh Anand) clutches.

Trivia: Which hero has acted most along with AB? And your four options are:
(A) Vinod Khanna (B) Dharmendra (C) Shah rukh khan (D) Shashi Kapoor
Answer towards the end of the blog

The villains of this story happen to be twin brothers - Tony and Jojo (Keith Stevenson). They kill Shekhar and Seema as well who try to stop them from escaping. The Rampiyari song is when Vijay and Sapna try to cheer up Shekhar and Seema's son.

After many attempts, Vijay succeeds in killing Jojo. An angry Tony kills Ajay and Neeta and attempts to kill Sapna as well. However, she is rescued just in time. And the rest of the story is another set of chase sequences.


Salim Khan (of Salim-Javed duo) is credited with this story. Like Oscars, if there were Filmfare awards for most painful movie of the year - this movie would have no competition in winning the coveted title for the year 1991. This was not the last torture from Ramesh Sippy. I recollect Zamana Deewana, also directed by him, as a very bad remake of Khudgarz.

You can easily fast forward all the songs. Not much to write about any other department - choreography, cinematography!

Trivia: Of the four options, correct answer is (B) Dharmendra
(A) Vinod Khanna (10) (B) Dharmendra (20) (C) Shah rukh khan (7) (D) Shashi Kapoor (14)

In case you are still wondering if there was Mohnish Behl in the movie then it was Kanwaljeet who I mistook for Mohnish Behl in the preview photo.

think M Rating: 2.0/5.0