Memorable, crazy movie

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I ignored this film for so much time after hearing an interview from Salman Khan. In the interview it was revealed that this plot came in to his head the same time as his earlier movie Chandramukhi. He said it was not feasible in those days to make a film on this scale and now it was so he was pushed and helped in releasing his movie Veer.I was thinking 20 years thought must be out dated and pain too watch like a lot of films that get released in the wrong decade.On this occasion I was wrong it was superb, dialogue, delivery, cast and stylisation brilliant.The producer, director and cinematographer enhanced this film with their production a brutally honest depiction of a proud but violent tribe that started a revolution.Zareena or fat Katrina as some have labelled was used I was people have posted as Katrina dropped out and they used her body double, how a body double in not proportionately the same I do not know. Zareena did a satisfactory job but this film required someone who is known and loved in Bollywood.Brilliant film, cast and production. Unfortunately Katrina or another celebrity was not in it for a commercial point of view and would have been a blockbuster

Devoid of sense, meaning and far removed from reality , this movie has just about everything in it to keep the ANIL SHARMA Bandwagon rolling.We couldn't have expected anything else from the maker of legendary stuff like TAHALKA,FARISHTEY,APNE,AB TUMHARE HAWALE WATAN SAATHIYON....etc.Salman Khan told some dainty reporter that he had taken about a score of years to scribble down the story of VEER. The movie in every reel bears testimony to that fact.With loose ends in abundance and logic conspicuously absent the story hovers around idealistic concepts of Love,Patriotism,Revenge and Forgiveness. One striking thing about the story is that it never meanders down to the valley of unnecessary secrecy,self righteousness and over the top sacrificing deeds. This is in my books single handedly makes this movie great. No melodramatic sacrifices of love for country. No Father Son brawls over the son's love interests. In fact the only point where such conflicts and hence the self sacrificing trait emerge are for a cause which is downright stupid and a living example of how gullible can a Director expect his audience to get.Each scene is as far removed from it's preceding brother as Eskimoes are from the Arabs.Not once in the movie does the brain get bothered and when it does it is because of the empty popcorn bag which was devoured greedily by the man himself.The acting is equally non-onerous . Leaving no space for critical comments to pour in. The dialogues represent the best of light hearted , brain dead revelry .The music is decent enough and varies from the loud "Taali " to the soft "Salaam Aaya".The girl who makes her debut does a fine job ( given the script she had to content herself with).The cinematography was good, I admit. The sets better.Salman is at his best ( in whatever he does ).Mithun and Sohail prove to be able supporting heroes.There are however some doubts still lingering in my mind 1. Why were the costumes of the people in London resembling those of a cheap Broadway commercial made to mock 19th century sensibilities? 2. Why can't Jackie Shroff become better with age? 3. What was Neena Gupta's role in the movie? 4. How did the entire Production Team and Direction squad pull this one off? 5. What was the force which compelled me to watch this movie ? Whatever may be the answers to these questions I can tell you one thing for sure: This movie didn't trouble my brain 's sinews . nor did it pretend that it was intelligent.I sat there for the entire length and left the hall a happy and carefree person.

Veer suffers from formulaic overkill. There is just so much contrived jabber-jabber you can take about defending your honour, about duty versus love, and about drinking the blood of the British. The film's director, Anil Sharma, may have touched a chord with a similarly jingoistic approach in his Sunny Deol-starrer Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, but in Veer the chest-thumping melodrama appears mechanical and excessive. The film, then is watchable for Salman Khan's arresting screen presence, his charming romantic overtures, and a degree of involvement from him that you haven't seen before. Unfortunately, what lets Veer down in the end is the fact that it overstays its welcome. At almost two hours and forty minutes, it's way more than you can handle on an evening out. It doesn't help that key parts are filled by weak actors like Sohail Khan, Puru Raaj Kumar and Aryan Vaid who rob the film of any shred of credibility it might have otherwise earned.Watch it if you're a die-hard Salman fan. It's an epic-sized period film with tacky special effects. Unacceptable in these times. From Cameron's Pandora to Anil Sharma's Pindhari, we've come a long way. The film's action is visceral with several blood-splattered slaughter scenes, but often runs the risk of coming off as ridiculous. A Gladiator-style duel ends with Salman literally twisting a man's head 360 degrees around, and there's another one in which he yanks out a rival's insides with his bare hands.The film also suffers on account of too many songs that don't take the narrative forward, including one in which Neena Gupta jiggles and wiggles and heaves her bosom suggestively at the entire Pindhari clan including her grown-up sons who dance along merrily.Much of the film's first half holds up because there's conviction even in the stupidity. You may find it hard to believe that one man can single-handedly fight an armed gang, but Salman and his director dive into the most preposterous scenes unblinkingly.

Veer is the worst movie of this decade. Maybe it's too soon to tell. Maybe not.The only aspect of this movie better than awful is the cinematography. All the rest is below awful. Salman Khan - the guy playing Veer - has a 'wide' range of facial expressions: it's either romantic or angry. His lip-sync performance in the songs is silly (why bother in the first place?). The story is very bad - no drama, flat characters, no surprises that you care about, lot's of stuff happening for no reason, silly humor etc.I could go on and on. But I'm sure it's clear I didn't like it. One bit. I understand that some people in Jaipur didn't like it either. Supposedly because the film twisted facts. My guess is that they wanted their money back.