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   Sonakshi Sinha @sonakshisinha

   Brothers!!! What an emotional family saga interlaced with the exciting world of MMA! @akshaykumar and @S1dharthM look like REAL bros

   
   
2. Kamaal R Khan-KRK @kamaalrkhan

   Madam @sonakshisinha coz you hav such a great knowledge abut cinema so this is why now nobody is giving you any film. Even Karan can't give.

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Brothers Movie Review
Saibal Chatterjee | Friday, August 14, 2015
Rating:1.5
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<i>Brothers</i> Movie Review
Genre:Action, Drama
Cast:Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra and Jacqueline Fernandez
Director:Karan Malhotra
SPOILERS AHEAD

An overblown, ultra-violent melodrama, Brothers spills a lot of blood and breaks plenty of bones on the way to establishing the primacy of fraternal love.

The collateral damage that the film inflicts isn't confined to the screen alone. Its excesses could drive the more sensitive and discerning of Bollywood pulp lovers off such fare for a spell, if not for good.

Brothers is an official remake of the 2011 Hollywood actioner Warrior. With the predilections of Indian audiences in mind, it tweaks the source storyline in significant ways in a bid to whip up high-pitched emotions and over-the-top drama.

The film has loads of both - emotion and drama. Yet, it is strangely torpid because ring hollow.

In any case, how edifying and exhilarating can the sight of beefy men pummeling each other be when it is stretched beyond two and a half hours?

The tale revolves around two Mumbai half-brothers, part of a family that once was. Fate brings the two streetfighters head to head in a bloody mixed martial arts contest.

One of them is in the arena for the money that could save his ailing daughter; the other is in the game to redeem his alcoholic father, the man at the root of all their troubles.

As the MMA tournament unfolds along entirely predictable lines, one of the excitable ringside commentators, who is as annoyingly loud as anything else that the film has to offer, hollers that this is "Mahabharat reloaded", this is epic".

Epic indeed, but not quite in the way that would have made the film a tolerable experience.

Brothers aspires to be a high-voltage sports film, but is unable to land its punches on target.

This film is a perfect demonstration of all that is wrong with contemporary Bollywood potboilers. It is marred by poor scripting and unbridled overacting.

Brothers presents the story of forgiveness and redemption purely as a physical confrontation between two estranged brothers who have drifted apart amid tragic circumstances.

Director Karan Malhotra's heavy-handed approach to the material drains out the emotional power of the original.

He resorts to storytelling methods that bank on the most fetid of clichs packaged in a style marked by a fondness for the mawkish.

Malhotra continues pretty much in the Agneepath vein, rolling out his thundering scenes like there is no tomorrow, with an earsplitting background score so persistent and so shrill that it deadens the soul.

Brothers also has what must surely be the silliest and most ill-timed item number ever foisted on a film.

A skimpily clad Kareena Kapoor pops up on the screen with Mary Naam Mary at the most inopportune point in the story, just when the younger street fighter, Monty Fernandes (Sidharth Malhotra), begins to find his footing his life, having just knocked out a reputed pugilist with a single blow.

Responding to the exhortation of his sozzled dad to give direction to his anger, Monty seems all set to take on the elder one, David Fernandes (Akshay Kumar), when Mary interrupts the flow.

David is now a much-loved physics teacher who lives away from the din with his wife Jenny (Jacqueline Fernandes) and a little daughter whose weak kidneys are a severe strain on the man's financial resources.

He has left his bitter past behind, but the memories of his fighting days under the tutelage of his father Garson Fernandes (Jackie Shroff) are still fresh.

His students ask David to show them the tattoos on his torso, but David refrains from baring his stripes.

When he returns to the street fighting ring in Colaba, he loses his job, but not the support of his principal (Kulbhushan Kharbanda) and his enthusiastic pupils.

By the time Deadly David, a wild card entry in the hyped R2F (Right to Fight) tournament, and Manic Monty, whose fury knows no bounds, square off against each other in the ring, it is difficult to stay focused on the crux of the family drama.

In a film like Brothers, the quality of the acting doesn't matter. What matters is the impact of the action scenes, which have the potential to make and mar of the production.

The pitching of the drama is several notches above acceptable limits and the fight sequences have men mercilessly mauling each other until deep gashes are opened and bones are crunched.

The two protagonists take on opponents from all over the world, including a fearsome German and a Shaolin fighter, and reduce them to pulp.

Sidharth Malhotra's Monty gets appreciably less footage because he takes next to no time to knock out his rivals.

Akshay Kumar's character engages in more time-consuming bouts, tiring out his opponents before going in for the kill. The film levaes the audience in no doubt who the bigger star is.

Brothers has the usually effective Shefali Shah in a cameo that ends a blood-splattered mess. In the bargain, she, too, is reduced to an agonizing spectacle.

For all the hoopla, Brothers, in going for the jugular, punches well below its weight.

It makes so much noise that any sensible point about brotherly bonding and filial fidelity that it might be trying to make is completely drowned out by the decibels. Take your earplugs along.

Review: Brothers is a lame copy of Connor
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Review: Brothers is a lame copy of Connor's 'Warrior', and the worst of 2015
RAHUL DESAI @reelreptile |14 August 2015




Synopsis
Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra are fighters and estranged brothers, and Jackie Shroff, their father
A loud, jarring and laughably melodramatic remake of 'Warrior'

Shroff hams like no tomorrow; makes this an affair to forget

Writing is awful, and a perfectly good story is destroyed

Gavin O' Connor's 2011 hit 'Warrior' is about two estranged brothers and their redemption-seeking alcoholic father, set against the backdrop of a brutal Mixed Martial Arts tournament. On its own, it had the beating heart of a passionate Bollywood mainstream movie. I remember wondering whether any Indian studio would even wait till the film ended to secure its rights. I also wondered if it could be 'Indianised' any further. When I heard that Karan Malhotra - he of the deafening, vein-popping Agneepath remake - was in charge, I was relieved he didn't name it 'Bhaijaans' for starters.

What director Karan Malhotra needed to do:
Surely, no Indian filmmaker could mess this up. It's already there on a nice colourful platter; all he needed to do was not stray away from the DVD player on set, gag and maim his background musicians, pop a Xanax into Jackie Shroff's coffee every hour, resist urges of using item songs and supporting actors and sound in general, lock his writers up in Akshay Kumar's vanity van, and finally, simply consider dubbing the original in Hindi instead.

Mr. Malhotra didn't do any of this. He wanted to make a mark. And he did -all over our bodies, minds, hearts and souls.

Let me tell you how.

What director Karan Malhotra ended up doing:
Short of showing armless kids on crutches in a minefield, 'Brothers' clocks Rajesh-Khanna-In-Swarg on the emotional manipulation scale of 1-to-Slumdog-Millionaire. It also clocks Main-Prem-Ki-Deewani-Hoon on the hamming scale from 1-to-Jackie-Shroff-in-Yaadein. Ironically, it is Jackie Shroff again, who, in his attempt to emulate Nick Nolte's splendid drunk in 'Warrior', ends up looking and behaving like an Arkham Asylum inmate. When he is relatively calmer, he looks like he has been in a car accident. 'Warrior' was around 120 minutes long; it avoided flashbacks, songs and slow-motion sequences. 'Brothers'adds 40 minutes of flashbacks, where Shroff interprets alcoholism as sequences of repeatedly walking through doors like Dev Anand with a bad hairdo. At one point, I was worried; was he actually just keeling over in continuous slow motion? Shefali Shah, his wife in the movie, has her moments, before the director's absurd fixation with teardrops takes over. A lone teardrop is seen rolling down most characters' cheeks every 47 seconds. Shah's eyes are perpetually wet. Who can blame her? She has been typecast as the wife of philandering or dead husbands (Satya, Kucch Luv Jaisaa, Dil Dhadakne Do).

Movie is of the so-bad-it's-bad variety
In between a score that sounds like the inside of barking cats in heat, we're treated to well-choreographed cage-fighting sequences with punches and kicks that sound like hammers tapping on skulls. The brothers' physicality is compelling, but they seem almost euthanised in comparison to the histrionics of Shroff, Kulbhushan Kharbanda (School principal to Kumar's teacher), Ashutosh Rana (Kumar's Muslim trainer), and of course, Kiran Kumar - the tycoon responsible for bringing the MMA tournament called R2F (Right 2 Fight; that's right) to India. Kiran Kumar wears tinted shades and smokes stylish cigars, and announces the 10 fighters in a press conference - where he introduces a German Champion as the fighter "straight from the land of Hitler".

There's also Jacqueline Fernandez, Akshay's wife, who - to demonstrate financial strife and Catholic middle-class existence - foregoes makeup and fake eyelashes for the entire movie. A strong contender for 'Mom Of The Year', she leaves her hospitalised daughter alone to watch her husband battle it out for the same daughter.

The director's keenness to fuse phases into a seamless shot is disturbing; for instance, husband and wife are making love, a teardrop (of pain, presumably) escapes her eye, and suddenly a newborn enters the same (sort of) frame towards her face; they're parents now. Creepy.

Laughable writing, no redeeming factor
And who can forget ringside commentator Raj Zutshi, who addresses his younger colleague as 'cheeky bugg-ah' in various colonial accents. The idea is to demonstrate how incompetent Indian sports commentators are, but using juvenile teaching references ("Summer Vacation is over for David (Akshay)", "His biology will be distorted by physics"), and terming Monty (Siddharth) a villain (because 'Ek Villain') are crimes that would put even an on-air Russel Arnold to shame. When not racially segregating athletes ('Italian criminal', 'Brazilian barbarian', 'North Indian champ'), they drop gentler bombs like "His father is an ex-criminal and alcoholic; I hope the angst works for him."

I could go on. And on. Karan Malhotra milks every single microsecond of every moment - enough to fill all of Switzerland's dairies - and then some more.

In short, despite this being a remake of one of the finest films of 2011, this is one of the worst films of 2015. Fortunately, sinusitis doesn't allow me to hear at full capacity. I pity those who can. Resistance is futile; annihilation is imminent.

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Originally posted by: MrsSalmanKhan

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   Brothers!!! What an emotional family saga interlaced with the exciting world of MMA! @akshaykumar and @S1dharthM look like REAL bros
   
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   <div><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/630277526862958592/2A8_N00k_bigger.jpg" alt="" />Kamaal R Khan-KRK@kamaalrkhan<small></small>

   Madam @sonakshisinha coz you hav such a great knowledge abut cinema so this is why now nobody is giving you any film. Even Karan can't give.

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thus made my day 😆 thankiee jenny 🤗

Originally posted by: Chippeshwini

There was life before Bajrangi Bhaijaan too 😆

@Shivani510: The only 'brother' worth buying a ticket to watch this weekend is of the Bajrangi variety. #PressScreening #Brothers #BajrangiBhaijaan

Originally posted by: .Hajmola.

I dont remember any negative reviews of Bajrani Bhaijaan posted on the main forum. BB had positive reviews only.

Originally posted by: MrsSalmanKhan

UMMM... go back to when Bajrangi released...

There was a seperate thread for every negative review.

Just learning from the forum 😛

BB had negative reviews?u r contradicting the comments in BB review threads where many of them were happy that BB had positive reviews...don't remember negative reviews on BB...