Toofan (तूफान)

"Toofan (तूफान)"

Watched Hindi movie Toofan (तूफान). Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Produced by Farhan Akhtar, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Ritesh Sidhwani. Written by Anjum Rajabali, Vijay Maurya, Farhan Akhtar. Cinematography Jay Oza. Music Shankar-Ehsan-Loy. It stars Paresh Rawal, Mrunal Thakur, Farhan Akhtar, Hussain Dalal, Vijay Raaz, Supriya Pathak & Mohan Agashe. I watched this movie with Aditi, on Amazon Prime, on 20th Jul 2021. The movie is about 2 hour 41 min long.

Farhan, muscle for a local goon, has two new entrants in his life. One is the lady doctor, Mrunal and another boxing. He is crazy for boxing and takes big strides. Then he falls. 

Mrunal has lovely smile and acts decently. She plays a non glamorous roll. Farhan does well but is let down by the story and direction. Paresh is good as usual. Other actors play their roles diligently.

Story and direction leave lot to be desired. Director handles the story casually. Rakeysh is better than director this. It's inconceivable that a person who decides to take the right path agrees to throw away the match. It's also inconceivable that the girlfriend has a change of heart when a friend accepts the blame. It's also inconceivable that a person who is clearly out of shape and who has boxed for maximum one year in his life, thaat too 5 years ago, comes into shape, performs incredibly well and wins the championship. Director could have given one year easily. The stampede scene was not effective. Bringing the character of Patil back was also unnecessary. Movie slows down considerably after match fixing scandal. Length of the movie is also longish. Shot of patch up between Farhan and Paresh was the high point of movie, but it was very brief. 

In short, movie lives up to neither the hype nor expectation. Thankfully I did not have to buy the ticket. 

Watch if you have Amazon Prime subscription. If you don't have it, give it a miss.