Movie Review: Action Replayy – Where’s the Action?

It’s time for popular Hindi cinema, also known as “Bollywood,” to start thinking seriously about a simple but irreplaceable ingredient called a “script” when making a movie. Action Replayy has just about everything you need to make a movie, and yet it falls flat on its face.

Action Replayy Story

There’s very little to the plot: Witnessing the endless feuds between his parents Kishen (Akshay Kumar) and Mala (Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan), Bunty (Aditya Roy Kapoor) decides never to marry his girlfriend Tanya (Sudeepa Singh). When she gets an uncle’s mad scientist Anthony Gonsalves (Randhir Kapoor) to instill in her some common sense, Bunty ends up stealing the professor’s time machine to go back to the 1970s to make sure her parents aren’t forced to. get married, but fall in love and get married. In the 1970s she makes sure that her stupid father ‘Kitchen Kumar’ transforms into the man Mala wants to fall in love with.

There are many things that go wrong in Vipul Amrutlal Shah’s Action Replayy, but the biggest culprit is the half-baked script. More than the times; it is the cinema of the 1970s that forms the backbone of Action Replayy and even that is not fully exploited. Once Bunty goes back in time, many of the scenes, takes, and sequences are repeated to the point of boring the viewer. Kishen and Mala are modeled on two-dimensional cardboard cutouts which, according to writers Suresh Nair and Aatish Kapadia, are just the things they are made of yesteryear. While Kishen says things like ‘a motherless childhood has made him the jerk that he is’, Mala’s tough exterior is his defense mechanism to make up for the absence of a father figure and everyone says something equally stupid in rewind mode. . The mainstay of the movie is Kishen’s transformation that drives Mala crazy and even that is revealed as soon as the movie begins on Jor Ka Jhatka’s song long before Bunty even has the idea of ​​time travel.

Even with a series of big rags behind him, there is no denying that Akshay Kumar can take the simplest lines and deliver them with such enthusiasm that they become fun. But that trait is good enough to carve out a sequence or two or at best a trailer, which is also about to change after the Tees Maar Khan promo that accompanies Action Replayy, but hopefully. An entire movie to work on the basis of your charisma is now expecting too much.

Akshay Kumar is an accidental comedy star and while he can still make something out of nothing, this trait suits Johnny Lever more than him. Rai Bachchan looks like a million dollars, but she, too, runs out of expressions halfway through the movie. Ranvijay Singh as the evil Kundan, who can sing in two voices, gets a meaty role and mostly looks like the role, but Roy Kapoor is a disappointment. He’s too interested in getting excited, keeps smiling for unknown reasons, and seems too happy to be a part of the movie that strangely “reintroduces” him; Do you remember that she made her debut in Shah’s disastrous London Dreams? Neha Dhupia’s Mona could have had some more lines or at least a defining semblance and Om Puri (Kishen’s father, Rai Bahadur) as well as Kirron Kher (Mala’s mother, Bholi Devi) are relegated to saying the same lines. with the same expressions over and over. again.

Final words on Action Replayy

With repeating sequences and nonsensical scenes that don’t really affect the story, the first half of Action Replayy is a test of your patience. The flavor of the 70s is also limited: Pritam’s music is nothing like the era, costumes change three decades without notice. The movie improves a bit in parts once Kishen transforms into a stud, but that’s too late!

Action cast: Asshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Ranvijay Singh, Neha Dhupia, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Kirron Kher and Om Puri

Action replay Written by: Suresh Nair and Atish Kapadia

Action Play Directed by: Vipul Amrutlal Shah

Action Replayy BUZZ RATING: 1/5