MOVIE REVIEW – SHIVAAY – (2016)

Today we are here with the review of one of two big budget movies released this Friday i.e. 28th October, 2016 namely SHIVAAY – (2016), the action flick starring Ajay Devgan, Erika Kaar, Abugail Eames & Sayesha Saigal in lead roles. The movie is directed and produced by Ajay Devgan. Moreover, its story is also given by himself. SHIVAAY is a ambitious project of Ajay Devgan and because of it he has delayed the Golmaal & Singham series films.

SHIVAAY is a story of a mountain trekking guide, who treks in Himalayas. In one of his treks, he mets a Bulgarian girl Olga (Erika Kaar) and after saving her life in a deadly avalanche, both fall in love. On Shivaay’s insistence, she agrees to gave birth to their child but refuses to live with them due to her personal pre-occupations and left for Bulgaria without having a glimpse of her newly born daughter who was later named Gaura by Shivaay.

Nine years later when Gaura learnt that her mother is alive, she forces her father to meet her mother at Bulgaria and during the visit, Guara gets kidnapped by a Child trafficking & flesh trade nexus. The kidnapping of his daughter turns over Shivaay into deadly killer, who confronts with the racket in Bulgaria. Soon death-defying action sequence take centre stage, which are at par with Hollywood movies.

Will he be able to save Gaura and such kids from the clutches of child traffickers is what you can know after watching the movie.

There had been a lot of expectations from SHIVAAY considering the fact the time and money Ajay has spent on the project. As expected in the promos of the movie, the action sequences are well executed as in the Hollywood movies and the only hope in the movie.

But the movie has lots of issues, be its run-time of about 3 hours and poor editing. Every scene of the movie seemed lingered on, as Ajay forget where to stop it. The action sequences and stunts are for complimenting the story of any movie but in the present case, it seems the filmmaker missed to work on the story.

His quick romance with Bulgarian girl Olga is highly bollywood masala and difficult to digest. One more thing when Shivaay requests Olga to give birth to their child out of her wish and leave him after giving birth as he is Orphan and wants to be a father. Hold on my dear its about giving birth to a child and not like that you are requesting to buy a thing from market. The whole thing is highly illogical. I also don’t understand the logic behind showing Gaura as Dumb.
The music of the movie is good particularly, Har Har track.

What’s Good:
The stunning action, locations and cinematography of SHIVAAY is complete breathtaking.

Loop holes in the movie:
The movie fails to make any emotional connection, the soul of any movie is the story and Shivaay lacks in this context. The dialogues in the movie are also pathetic.
Star Peformance:-
SHIVAAY is Ajay Devgan show all through the movie and he is literally in every frame of the movie. Although in the multitasking spree, he missed out in acting sometime and directions some other times. Overall he has looked good as Shivaay.

Erika Kaar’s acting is not that good.

Sayesha Saigal is good in her small role.

Abigail Eames as Gaura (an 8 years child) does a good job though her character is speech impaired.

Other characters are negligible in the movie.

Final words:
Shivaay is an action movie with great visuals, but lacks emotion, good story. The fans of Ajay Devgan must love it but for others watching such long action movie would be bit difficult.
My ratings for this movie is 2.5 out of 5 stars.

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