Imitation is the best form of flattery unless we are talking about the official Bollywood remake of Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior. Directed by Karan Malhotra of Agneepath fame, Brothers is a quite simply a bad rehashed work.
Most of what we need to know about the film is already revealed in its trailer. Akshay Kumar and Siddharth Malhotra are brothers. They are also rugged street fighters with some mean moves. We even know that at a certain point in the movie the two brothers will come to blows.
We might even guess what the predictable end would be. However, what the trailer doesn’t enlighten us about is that this 158 min film will drag its feet so slowly that we would want to get up ourselves and bring the shutters down!
Akshay Kumar plays David Fernandes, a Physics teacher during the sane hours of his life. Akshay is always frowning - probably because that horrible tattoo on his neck resembles an angry kid’s doodling.
Moving on - his younger brother Monty played by a nicely beefed up Sidharth Malhotra is always angry. The two end up being part of the Right to Fight League, a newly opened venture on the lines of WWF where local street fighters can legitimize their prowess by showcasing their Mixed Marshal Art moves.
Jacky Shroff is the father of these two brothers and is mostly seen in agony, crying throughout the film. The fight sequences are clearly distributed post interval. Sidharth is pitched against humongous fighters but knocks them out in a minute or two, thereby commanding less screen time.
Akshay Kumar takes time to win his battles. He also hogs more footage. Somewhere in between we see glimpses of Jacqueline Fernandez in her sans makeup avatar.
The biggest draw back in the film is its length. Too many unnecessary songs not just slacken the pace of the film, but also eat into the intensity that a story like this demands and most importantly makes us run out of patience. That atrocious item number by Kareena Kapoor Khan did not help matters either!
YouTube is teeming with such fight videos. Plus the Warrior DVD is available too. Why then take the trouble of booking tickets for Brothers. Instead, wait for it to come on TV.
I’ll give it 2 QUINTS OUT OF 5. Below average and quite forgettable!