Ganesh Salian (salianmoviereview)
Veer directed by Anil Sharma is painful watch.High Budget,lavish production values and great stars do not make an movie super-hit,but it is the story which unfortunately Veer does not have.The story written by Salman Khan is childish.The screenplay is bad.Performances-Salman Khan and Mithun Chakraborty save the movie from going downhill.Salman Khan as always is excellent.Mithun Chakraborty is superb.Sohail Khan irritates.Zarine Khan is no Katrina Kaif.Her acting is bad.Jackie Shroff hams.On the whole,Veer is sheer disappointment.
M MALIK
Salman khan is the writer of this movie & this time he Disappoints me. the story is set up in the era when British ruled India & the Indians wanted British to go back & leave India independent. the films starts well but in between looses the control.the script is a mix of many movies or novels.. Xenia,Mangal Panday,troy & some older stories from India...Salman Khan what is wrong with you...Mr Veer jokes,gets funny,gets angry in a second,falls in love with Zarine Khan(the fat princess). Mithun was over acting as usual,Zarine was cool,Jackie Shroff was trying too hard to be a bad guy but failing... the soundtrack of the movie is amazing...Ill give this movie 5/10...i hope Salman Khan realizes his mistake & let this be a lesson for those who jumps to make a movie without proper plan.
Wonderkind
This film should have been laughed straight out the preview cinema. The only reason I remained in my seat, was the astronomical disbelief that a film with such wealth behind it, could continue to produce such terrible scenes, one after the other. I sat, then lay, then practically wept waiting for the moment where I could see exactly where the money had been spent, apart from to airbrush a six pack on to the main characters.It was as if the special effects team had been given cartoon style dynamite, the animation team consisted of one small child, diligently copying and pasting characters, the small horse riding across the desert being a particular favourite, over and over again, the production staff were short staffed, the editing team had got drunk, and all of them were so bored by their own film that they even ended up writing 'insert foreign language' instead of the English translation during several excerpts of the film. Throughout the film, the editors enjoyed the popular old 'cut half-way through a speech and suddenly tag a second scene into it, without any attempt at linking the two together manoeuvre'.I think at one point, they discovered the pause button when several characters were leaping through the air and believed that stopping them mid-flight was to somehow symbolise their surprise? Rather than conjure a clearly expected look of awe from the audience, it must have been forgotten that fifty years of cinema has passed from the time that that was an acceptable form of conveying emotion on screen, and thus, the entire room dissolved into hysterical laughter.Finally, the collection of people producing sound on the back of this obviously took out a Yamaha keyboard circa 1980 when providing the effects, and played with a couple of the 'boing' and 'woooooo' and 'beep' buttons in the background to keep the audience entertained through the stiff and wooden dialogue, let's not even mention the corpse-like acting.I'm sorry, who green-lit this production? The script on its own was beyond terrible. Clearly the power of having a Bollywood star as both lead role and writer as well as chief funder, meant that nobody felt they were able to say that firstly, Salman Khan is hardly capable of giving a world class performance in a historical role, and secondly, he's definitely not winning the Booker Prize anytime soon, so perhaps he should have handed over the reigns to somebody who actually had a clue how to write a script? I cannot fathom how he could even consider taking on the epics; Gladiator and Lord of The Rings (cited as potential inspiration) with so little up his sleeve? Mastery, suspense, awe, groundbreaking cinematography, elegant scripting, time and effort put into picture perfect seconds and sublime acting; all elements that could be taken from those films. Instead - all he's taken is 'there's some big fights that happen in the middle, and it's all about good versus evil so let's just do that and say it's the same thing?' If this script was handed in at any film studio, without a title or an author, hands down, pages would be being used to wrap big sweaty pieces of take-away pizza in for the staff and by that very evening hurled into the rubbish truck, soaked in grease, shredded and ready for morning collection. Expecting this film to parallel the beautiful Jodhaa-Akhbar, I was both ashamed and to say disappointed, would be the understatement of the century. I would be embarrassed to see this at a small local amateur production, let alone a huge budget Bollywood film. This has the potential to be one of, if not the worst, film I have ever seen. For that, I am very sorry. Think of the good use this money could have been put to!
sumanbarthakursmailbox
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.
