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Boss! #Hero has been watched and @BeingSalmanKhan you have a #100croreHero on your hands @soorajpancholi9 is a star review soon @filmfare

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Are we going to witness the unthinkable today? Will Sooraj Pancholi & Athiya Shetty draw a bigger opening than Ranbir + Anushka + Kashyap?

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Are we going to witness the unthinkable today? Will Sooraj Pancholi & Athiya Shetty draw a bigger opening than Ranbir + Anushka + Kashyap?

do you remember how much was BV's?

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do you remember how much was BV's?

5.2 crore

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Hero review: Sooraj Pancholi flexes muscles, Athiya Shetty pouts, and the film scores zero

by Deepanjana Pal Sep 11, 2015 7:49 IST

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Sooraj Pancholi does a headstand on a platform of nails, drives a bulldozer through a wall, slams dudes through solid objects, does a laser dance in a disco and swings Athiya Shetty (who has taken three selfies within 15 seconds) around like a weapon to knock out a giant baddie. These are the first few minutes of Hero, directed by Nikhil Advani, and if there was any justice in this world, the film would have ended there. Unfortunately for Pancholi, Shetty and all those watching Hero, the world is cruel and unusual.

It's difficult to say what debutants Pancholi and Shetty are capable of because Advani's remake of Subhash Ghai's Hero starts off as awful and ends as boring. There are about two genuinely emotional moments in the film's 131 minutes. In these, one senses Shetty in particular may just have some acting talent, but Advani and his screenwriter Umesh Bisht would rather bludgeon the audience with stupidity than give the newcomers an honest chance at winning us over.

Hero is a '80s' film that should never have been taken out of the vault. The dialogues, peppered with outdated flourishes like "imaandari ka pilla" and "aaj main surprise nahin, shock dene aaya hoon", are melodramatic. The only twist in Hero is when Shetty ties up her hair. The fights are unexciting. The cinematography is dull and the songs sound like wailing cats in heat who have been auto-tuned. Salman Khan's "Main Hoon Hero Tera" is the only example of melody in the soundtrack and Khan displays more acting in the sweet, little video of the song's recording than he has in most of his blockbusters. Sadly, he shows up only at the end. There's a lot to endure before you get your Bhai fix.

Sooraj (Pancholi) is a thug whose bulging muscles hide a heart as mushy as a roasted marshmallow. When he isn't bodybuilding or beating up people, he's helping the needy. For no fault of his own, he lands up in the middle of a glowering contest between baddie Pasha (Aditya Pancholi) and Inspector General Mathur (Tigmanshu Dhulia).

Pasha tells Sooraj to kidnap IG Mathur's daughter, Radha (Shetty). Since Pasha is like a father to Sooraj - apparently, Sooraj's mother was like a sister to Pasha, which hints at a rather incestuous family tree, but never mind those details - our buff hero spirits Radha away. It helps that Radha has the intelligence of a dull four-year-old. Despite having two policemen in the family (her father and brother), Radha finds nothing odd about a Mumbai police inspector taking her to a safe house in Jammu. It also doesn't bother her that she's in a wooden hut, in the middle of nowhere, with five strange men she's never seen before and that these 'policemen' don't let her call home. There are snowball fights, drunken nights around a bonfire and an occasionally shirtless Sooraj to ogle at ... what more could a 20-something PYT want?

Along the way, a man starts singing in a girl's voice, Sooraj and Radha fall in love, Pasha roars mightily, IG Mathur bays for Sooraj's blood, and a bicycle discovers its inner Rajinikanth and neutralises a bullet. And then, as if 115 minutes of the film's barely-there plot wasn't enough of an endurance test, we get a song that recaps all of the first half and parts of the second half.

By the time interval strikes, you've got to feel bad for young Pancholi and Shetty. Sooraj and Radha may be sporting bruises that look like the make-up team was using lipstick to make tally marks - perhaps to show how many days of shooting these two newcomers had survived? - but the real wounds are deep. Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt got the vapid but glossy Student of the Year. Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor got the nonsensical and lavish Saawariya. The son of Aditya Pancholi and daughter of Sunil Shetty get Hero, a film as B-grade as their fathers' filmography.Hero is ill-conceived, outdated and lazily made, with neither director nor crew giving a hoot for details like continuity or logic. Pancholi and Shetty deserved better; not because they're star kids, but because as actors they commit as much as they can to the colossal ineptitude that is their debut film.

Yet, rather than being a cakewalk, Herois actually a serious challenge for both Pancholi and Shetty. Shetty has to showcase herself in a role that requires her to play a bimbo and make sure she doesn't blink when the wind machine blows her hair away from her face. This is a shame because with her athletic frame and deadly cheekbones, it's easy to imagine Shetty as a desi Lara Croft.

Pancholi is making his debut at a time when Bollywood has a set of versatile young actors who are proving to be adventurous in their choices and versatile, but all this young man gets to do in Hero is show off his musculature. Unfortunately for him, every hero in Bollywood seems to have abs and the bland character he plays in Hero makes Pancholi look like a pale replica of Salman Khan, but without Khan's charisma.

On the plus side, things can only look up for Pancholi and Shetty after this, because it's going to be tough to find a project as forgettable as Hero. Here's to their future.

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Film review: Hero' remake proves that if it is broke, you can't fix it

Nikhil Advani's remake of Subhash Ghai's mediocre 1983 hit is an ardour-less romance with unconvincing leads and a convoluted plot

An ineffective remake of a 1983 box office hit mislabelled as a classic, Hero is yet another instance of the resilience of the ancient Indian tradition of nepotism. Like Bobby Deol and Twinkle Khanna in Barsaat, Kareena Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan in Refugee and Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor in Saawariya, the main draw of Nikhil Advani's retooling of Subhash Ghai's 1983 movie is the pairing of Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty. The gender roles are reversed here - Aditya Pancholi, the striking-looking actor with a talent for drama, has spawned a son who is closer to the lumbering Suniel Shetty in terms of his acting abilities and the mass of his torso. Suniel Shetty's daughter Athiya, meanwhile, doesn't have much meat on her body but she does try to flesh out her character in Hero with something resembling histrionics.

The changes between the original saga of the clash of generations, classes and morals and the remake are cosmetic. The current Hero is slicker and relatively tighter, the convoluted sub-plots are crammed into the last half of the third act, and the leading man's buddies look like his friends rather than extras yanked off the streets. Ghai's usual device of naming his characters after Hindu gods and goddesses and throwing in religious symbols to elevate his formulaic films to the status of legendary epics is also absent, though there is a strange song sequence set in a discotheque with stained glass panels that seem to have been borrowed from a nearby church.

It is in this holy discotheque that Sooraj (Sooraj Pancholi), the leading henchman and foster son of gangster Pasha (Aditya Pancholi), first sets his eyes on Radha (Shetty), the daughter of the permanently unshaven Inspector General of Police Mathur (Tigmanshu Dhulia). Radha is a mildly spoilt lass who is tamed after a few dance moves by Sooraj. The thresholds for falling in love are low in this movie: Sooraj isn't much of a dancer, but Radha, who is apparently a trained one, is smitten anyway.

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Pasha has ordered Radha's abduction to pressure Mathur into getting him off the hook in a criminal case. Sooraj pretends to be part of Radha's security detail and spirits her away to a snow-bound cottage where something resembling love blossoms between the star-crossed pair. Technology, which has radically progressed since the early 1980s, gives Sooraj's location away and also inspires one of the movie's corniest attempts to keep step with the youth demographic. Radha suggests to Sooraj that he should "control alt delete" - wipe out his past omissions and walk hand in hand with her into a new respectable future.

Sharad Kelkar, in the part of the supportive brother played by Sanjeev Kumar in the original, tries to protect Radha from their intransigent father, while Vivan Bhatena, stepping into the Shakti Kapoor role, briefly shows up to stretch the running time some more.

The only draws of Ghai's Hero were its male lead, Jackie Shroff, who has never needed to take off his shirt to prove his virility, and Laxmikant-Pyarelal's hit score. Sooraj Pancholi sheds his upper garments often enough to elicit a squeal from Radha, and Bhatena too makes his gym trainer proud.

The bare-chested gimmick is no surprise, considering that this movie has been co-produced by Salman Khan Films. But even the Boss of the Beefcake has shown greater on-screen passion than the raw leads, whose youth and inexperience show up painfully in the many scenes of tender romance. Slow motion, soft light and molar-dislodging action fail to make Sooraj Pancholi a convincing action hero or give Athiya Shetty a serious shot at joining the list of actresses who dominate the screen. The next time round, try a little ardour?

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Hero ( UA ) (2015) (Hindi)

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1.5 out of 5 (Poor, A Few Good Parts)

Nikhil Advani is no Subhash Ghai when it comes to handling potboilers. Hero is a botched up film in effort to provide two reasonably good star kids a launch pad.

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Let me confess. I am not quite a fan of the original Hero. The late '80s film had already lost its charm by the time I started watching films as a passion. But when you compare it to the storytelling of that age it stood pretty clear and bore testimony of Subhash Ghai's prowess as a mainstream director.

But Nikhil Advani is no Subhash Ghai. His only successful mainstream film has been Kal Ho Naa Ho, which bore a heavy Karan Johar hangover. D Day, his last film, though critically appreciated, wasn't quite the mainstream potboiler film that Hero aimed to be. What Hero turns out to be is something that fluctuates between wanting to be realistic and a glamorous launch pad for two star kids, the later meaning that the writing defies logic every now and then.

Hero traces the love story of a goon and the daughter of a senior police official. A love story that starts after the girl is kidnapped by the guy on behest of a politician who has an axe to grind with the policeman.

The film starts decently before losing way so bad that it never gets back to track for rest of the duration. You keep wondering what may have happened to the cause behind the kidnapping that actually led to the entire drama. But the director probably had a mandate - focus on the kids. The rest can go fish. So no matter how good an act the Tigamanshu Dhulia puts up as the IG, and how sincere the efforts of Sharad Kelkar and Aditya Pancholi are, there is no way that the focus deviates from the debuting actors. Even if that's for the most unnecessary scene ever! And of course those drop of a hate songs. Picture this - the 'hero' gets shot, gets washed off a river with his girl, wake up a day later with injuries, recover while singing songs and dancing around in picturesque Leh and then make it back to Mumbai after some drama, all in three days. Because the director obviously believed that gun shots heal in two days, wound scars vanish in one and rivers flow backward.

On their part, thankfully, both Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty show spark. Sooraj is introduced in a way that's copied from the opening montage of American TV show Arrow and Athiya's introduction is made to resemble what Karan Johar did to Kareena Kapoor is Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... [Nikhil assisted KJo in that film]. They go through all the irrational shifts in storyline as well as their own characters with as much gusto.

A remake of Hero probably could have been done better. It could have been provided a more noir-feel and made gritty providing the new kids enough scope while keeping the sensibilities in place. Alas, it ends a project so botched up just so that Sooraj Pancholi could show off his body and action skills, while Athiya could present her dancing skills. Hero is an example in irony

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Rating : 2 out of 5

Remaking old classics is the latest trend to hit Bollywood. This week will see the release of HERO (directed by Nikhil Advani), which is a remake of the Subhash Ghai's 1983 cult film by the same name. Will Nikhil Advani's HERO match the expectations that have been set by Subhash Ghai's HERO or will it turn out to be a villain at the box-office, let's analyze.

HERO starts off with a normal day in Mumbai, which is followed by the 'heroic' entry of Sooraj (Sooraj Pancholi) who is an extremely 'large hearted' 'gunda' who cannot see pains and sufferings. So, when the villainous Changezi (Chetan Hansraj) and his henchmen torture the helpless, Sooraj stages a heroic entry and beats the henchmen black and blue. Sooraj's friends aka his 'partners in crime', who are dead against his large heartedness, convince him to go clubbing to celebrate. That's when Sooraj meets the free spirited Radha (Athiya Shetty). It is in the club where Sooraj picks up a dance only in order to prove Radha that they are in no way 'Losers'. He also lands up fighting with Radha's 'pile-on' boyfriend and saves her from being dragged along with him. All of this impresses Radha very much and she almost falls in love with him instantly! On the other hand, Radha's father (Tigmanshu Dhulia), an Inspector General of Police, is on a war path and loggerheads against Pasha (Aditya Pancholi), who has been imprisoned for being the mastermind in the killing of a journalist. Despite repeated attempts of requests and tortures (in that order), when Pasha refuses to budge, the IG declares that he has hardcore evidence against Pasha which will nail him forever. That's when Pasha tells his 'protege' Sooraj to kidnap Radha, but keep her safely. Not the one to negate his 'Baba's' (as Sooraj fondly calls Pasha) words, Sooraj immediately sets into action and disguises himself as a 'police-escort' and kidnaps Radha, takes her to a snow clad area. As time passes by, Sooraj and Athiya fall for each other. And when Athiya comes to know about Sooraj's background, she convinces him to reform his life using the 'Control+Alt+Delete' formula and 'Enter' into a new life. Does Sooraj listen to his ladylove and surrender himself before the cops or will he listen to the call of his duty towards his 'Baba', does IG become successful in nailing Pasha forever, what ultimately happens to the lovebirds Sooraj and Radha and their love story is what forms the rest of the film.

Nikhil Advani, who had been handed over the responsibility of remaking the 1983's cult classic film HERO (which was directed by Subhash Ghai), lands up making a irreparable remake in the form of his version of HERO. And the biggest and the main problem with HERO is its absolutely lame screenplay. While Subhash Ghai's writing kept you interested right till the end, Nikhil Advani-Umesh Bisht's screenplay in the remake is so convoluted (especially in the second half) that you are befuddled as to what exactly the objective behind making the film was. The story is more or less similar to the original. Without mincing any words here, it has to be HERO's director Nikhil Advani who needs to shoulder all the blame for making an almost mash up of the original classic. Nikhil Advani's last film D DAY was a highly critically acclaimed film. HERO is no patch on his last film. It is obvious that there were multiple minds working on cooking up this tasteless drama and the end result isn't appetising.

In the acting department, even though there's nothing much to appreciate; debutante Sooraj Pancholi has a nice screen presence and a solid physique. Though he carries only one expression throughout, he is reasonably good in the action scenes. One does notice that, in the film, his transformation from a local ruffian to a nice guy is totally missing. Athiya Shetty too is decent in her part but will need more time to find her comfort zone. Having said that, to be fair to the debutantes Sooraj Pancholi and Athiya Shetty, the duo have a nice screen presence but they have their limitations. Tigmanshu Dhulia, on the other hand, in an attempt to reprise Shammi Kapoor's tough-dad-cop persona, is gloriously miscast. We all know that he is a fine actor, but he falters big time in the film. Sharad Kelkar as Athiya's brother is decent. Aditya Pancholi as the villainous Pasha is average. Vivan Bhatena does a Shakti Kapoor and he holds a magnetic appeal.

The music of Subhash Ghai's HERO was truly memorable. Each and every single song (even music pieces) are part of the collective consciousness of the movie loving audience. Music of Nikhil Advani's HERO is a total let down. The only saving grace in the music department is the much publicised 'Main Hoon Hero Tera' sung by Armaan Malik, which is reasonably good, but is mostly used as a filler. And, then there's the much talked about Salman Khan's version of the same in the end (for his fans of course).

While Tushar Kanti Ray's cinematography is good, Ritesh Soni's editing is average. Ravi Varma and Dave Judge's actions are one of the positive highlights of the film. Umesh Bisht's dialogues are boring. The only dialogue that stands out is 'Pyaar karne vaale kabhi darte nahin, jo darte hain vo pyaar karte nahin' (which was anyways a part of the song in original HERO).

Nikhil Advani's HERO has been aggressively marketed and no corners have been cut to ensure that the promotions reach all across. If only the same amount of passion was invested in writing a nice dramatic entertainer. All the hype may result in a somewhat decent start at the box office, but the word of mouth isn't going to be flattering at all.

On the whole, HERO fails the litmus test of rehashing a classic for the Generation Next. It appeals in very small measures and is not an ideal weekend entertainer. If you a die-hard Salman Khan fan, you may want to patronise, else avoid.

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Watching Hero is like refreshing your Facebook timeline, hoping for a like or a comment. Except nothing happens. The movie moves from one bizarre scene to the other making you realise that those Candy Crush invites are NOT the most irritating thing in the world.

The movie starts with a jigsaw puzzle where the hero's waxed torso, his bulging biceps, his shampooed hair, his face-washed stubble, his pointless tattoos all come together to reveal a full blown, muscular Sooraj. His entry causes a mini earthquake. The bottles on the table start shaking and falling as he enters. Wow, yeh hero hain ya Jurassic Park ka Tyrannosaurus Rex(😆😆.) Along with the bottles, the first star falls and leaves it to a 4 star.
This is followed by a fight, a club song and a scene where he saves Radha-on-the-dance-floor-Shetty😕 from the zor-zabardasti of her ex-boyfriend. And soon we are transported to the good old 1980s and its gheesa-pita filmy formulae. I was so waiting for a Kanoon ko apne haath mein mat lo' or Main tumhare bachche ki maa banne wali hoon.' Alas, it never happened. Another star stripped!!
Hero educates us how to celebrate Valentine's Day: hold hands, look into each other's eyes and kiss your beloved's lips. Alas, it's only big talk no action'. Even the scars on hero's face after a gruesome fight look like lipstick marks instead of blood, alas, without any kissing. Sometimes it's the lead pair that deprives us of a hearty kiss, sometimes it's their fathers. I kid you not, in an intense scene Tigmanshu Dhulia comes so close to Aditya Pancholi that you cringe they might kiss(.) Thankfully, it all ends up in dialoguebaazi and sweet nothings being whispered into Aditya's ears.

It really breaks my heart that the newcomers couldn't really pack a punch in their first movie. Sooraj-I-took-my-acting-classes-in-Gold-Gym looks like Gautam Gulati's body double. Look close, he even smiles like him. The character he plays is like a grown up Darsheel Safari. He doesn't sing ma, he tattoos(🤣) it. But full points to him on building a great body. He looks good, is earnest and I hope he gets better with time.
Athiya-mere-pappa-anna-hain-Shetty is beautiful and a shade more confident than Sooraj. Her dialogue delivery though reminded me of Shaina NC on Times Now: lots of words and no feelings. But it's not her fault. The character was badly written!!😲😆😆

WHAT THE RATINGS MEAN:
5 stars: Loved it. (This could make to top ten movies you must watch before you die!)
4 stars: Liked it. Recommend it. (This will help you sound intellectual and give you stuff to add at water cooler conversations.)
3 stars: Didn't hurt. Watch it once.
2 stars: It put me to sleep. Watch it if you are an insomniac or a newly wedded couple. Winks!
1 star: Do I even need to explain this?🤣
http://www.masala.com/movie-review-hero-203593.html

Best Review ever🤣🤣

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'Hero'

U/A; Drama/Romance

Director: Nikhil Advani

Cast: Sooraj Pancholi, Athiya Shetty, Sharad Kelkar, Tigmanshu Dhulia

Rating: 2.5 out of 5

Why are remakes made? I would think to take a crackling story that can stand the test of time, and tweak it to fit into the current scenario, so that the new audience gets to enjoy it too. But the exercise seems futile if the remake is also stuck in the same time as the original was, or perhaps goes further back.

This 'Hero' remake looked like it belonged to an era before the original 'Hero' in which Jackie Shroff and Meenakshi Seshadri sang the peppy and delightfully irreverent 'Ding Dong' song. That's another thing. The original film had a great story laced with abundant humour. Remember Bindu as the meddling, widowed bua and Sanjeev Kumar as the bumbling cop brother? Here, we have an IG (Tigmanshu Dhulia), who looked just plain upset all the time and a lead couple which took itself too seriously. Even though Sharad Kelkar, who replaces Sanjeev Kumar in this one, has a good screen presence, he's handicapped by the absence of anything substantial to say or do.

Nikhil Advani had a hit story, a fresh young pair of actors at his disposal and he unfortunately chose the safe route of the same old, with all the commercial trappings intact. For starters, hero's rippling muscles decorated with tattoos, are used in many ways; to show the Hero's invincibility and also to melt the heart of the coy, semi retarded heroine's heart. Talking about the heroine, Meenakshi Seshadri's character Radha in Subhash Ghai's 'Hero' had lot more spunk than this pretending to be badass one of 2015. Clearly not much thought is put into the screenplay. A shallow screenplay and a rather convoluted story flouting logic work against the film.

Sooraj Pancholi is good in parts, but then again he is limited by his one dimensional role. In how many different ways can one really frown? While he does seem vulnerable once in a while, otherwise he looked too well groomed, with not a hair out of place, to be the dangerous goon that he's playing. Athiya Shetty has the potential and looks good, but she needs to get more comfortable in her skin and in front of the camera. Probably with better roles and little more experience, she can be turned into an asset.

The best thing comes at the end. When you see Salman Khan crooning 'Main Hoon Hero Tera'. You wish some of that easy charm had rubbed off on the film.

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