‘Takkar’ movie review: A fantastic Siddharth gets wasted in this middling mishmash of action and romance

Have you ever seen these 90-minute Hollywood motion flicks the place a seemingly easy hero takes on an antagonist (largely a mafia boss), the stakes are restricted, there’s sufficient price range for just a few explosions and automotive crashes, and the script provides you the satisfaction of familiarity with few subversions? If you’re somebody who likes that flavour, you is perhaps doubly disenchanted with Takkar as you’ll realise that Karthik G Krish had ample house, scope, and sources to tug off one such film. And oh, the movie additionally makes an attempt to create a Gus Fring-ish villain; if Los Pollos Hermanos was the Breaking Unhealthy baddie’s entrance for unlawful actions, in Takkar, a Korean man who’s at all times on the Upward Lotus Pose has a taxi firm the place a scratch on the costly BMW will likely be paid again with a scratch on the driving force’s physique.

Quite the opposite, after this two-hour film, one wonders if it’d have been higher had it taken extra time to grasp itself. Takkar, Karthik’s debut characteristic effort, has an intriguing set of issues assimilating because the set-up, they result in a peculiar battle, and we even get a formidable pre-climax. To high it off, now we have a terrific Siddharth giving his A-game. Nevertheless, every part in between is a large number.

“Mayir-la kuda panakkaara mayir-ku dhan madhippu.”….“Kovapadradhu nalladhu dhan, aana kovapadradhukkum thagudhi venum.” These are two of the various classes that Gunashekar a.ok.a Weapons (Siddharth), a younger man from an underprivileged rural background, is pressured to be taught in following the traditional, moral path to ascend the social ladder. As he struggles to search out his place in a brand new metropolis, he questions if vanity and self-respect are the costs to pay for wealth on this world. He joins the cab firm of the aforementioned Korean man as at the very least he will get to drive round BMWs and Mercedes. Have you ever ever puzzled what you’d do in the event you come throughout a bag full of cash someplace? Weapons, having been pushed to the sting of life, chooses to go all Ryan Gosling’s Driver when one such alternative comes his method, solely to be despatched again flying as soon as once more. Weapons would quickly realise that when life pushes you to a nook, the one method is ahead. By a well-staged and spectacular choreographed motion sequence, Weapons realises that he can struggle again if he chooses to and that he has been having an motion hero inside him all this whereas. However the consequence places him within the crosshairs with a bunch of girls traffickers who’ve kidnapped Mahalakshmi a.ok.a Fortunate (Divyansha Kaushik).

Weapons inadvertently rescues Fortunate, and we realise that they’re each in related circumstances. They’re each castaway from regular life they usually don’t have any hope or want to return to their lives; as Fortunate says, if the abductors are promoting her to many males, her personal father, a wealthy brat businessman, needs to promote her to a person by marriage for a great enterprise deal. Fortunate’s father, the Korean cabbie firm baddie, the henchmen of the human traffickers seek for the 2 who’re wandering, in search of pleasure within the nomadic, in-the-moment hippie life. There’s additionally a touch of sexual rigidity between Fortunate and Weapons.

All through Takkar, you get the texture as if this can be a criminally diminished reduce of a much bigger film as a result of nothing actually sustains — aside from the annoying comedy by Yogi Babu and RJ Vigneshkanth. We get the concept of what the author in Karthik, together with story author Shrinivas Kaviinayam, goes for but it surely by no means actually comes collectively on display screen. Interspersing the entire cat-and-mouse sport with meaningless comedy scenes and satisfactory track sequences makes it a duller affair.

The most important thriller of the movie, in the meantime, is the character of Fortunate. She comes throughout as a placard out of the script, etched with phrases and concepts, however by no means as an actual human. For example, we don’t know sufficient about why she likes Weapons within the first place and what she’s been pondering the entire time. In any case, this can be a man who referred to as her ‘an unintended trophy’. For somebody who speaks of wanting freedom and challenges the restrictions of modern-day relationship buildings, the establishment of marriage, and the need to place a tag on every part, why does she select what Weapons proposes? A line about how she sees her mom in him undoes every part we considered her.

The writing is so contrived and the screenplay meanders into some totally boring scenes that nothing helps in shaking you away from a difficulty you felt within the first half; it’s like a gap in a cloth that you just maintain twiddling with. Proper in the beginning, there’s a scene the place Weapons drops Fortunate at her dwelling. After a horrible date, she is seated within the again carrying a stunning costume. Nevertheless, for some cause, her chest is blurred all through the experience. If this was achieved for the movie to get a U/A certificates, you marvel what points the Censor board might need had. If they’re progressive sufficient to retain a kissing scene and the discussions about intercourse, what’s the cope with a lady carrying a costume she likes?

On the flip aspect, that is additionally the identical movie wherein now we have a smart hero enjoying a personality who, being caught in the midst of nowhere, wears his feminine good friend’s garments and lets her apply make-up on him. It’s commendable on Siddharth’s half to have proven how a person, or a “hero”, with a safe masculinity would discover no “disgrace” in dressing up or placing on make-up. And Siddharth as Weapons is really the most important takeaway from the movie. He suits the invoice and steals all eyeballs a lot so that you just want to see him in an adrenaline-pumping motion film. However for all that he has given it, you would like Takkar had greater than a great one-liner.

Takkar is at the moment operating in theatres