Salman Khan in a scene from ‘Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan’
Salman Khan proposed: bring it, bring it, Disposal of audience: stop stop, It has become a routine. Brother’s second-last film, Radhe (2021), was definitely bad and dumb. Nevertheless, after releasing on ZEE5 during the pandemic, it gave viewers the option to skip ahead or watch something else entirely. with no such luxury someone’s brother, someone’s life, Which has opened in theaters and runs for 144 minutes. 143 minutes is way too long for the Salman-Farhad Samji combo.
lets score some points with samji bhai The ‘epic’ introductory scene. We see a bunch of goons arrive at an unknown intersection in Delhi. They are looking for Bhaijaan (Salman), the savior of the people, who runs the gym. As the sought-after personality leaps off a rooftop in slow motion, slipping comfortably into his black leather jacket mid-jump, the assembled populace begins to whistle and hoot. What a great solution, I thought, absolutely guaranteeing that if fans don’t turn up in large numbers (as they apparently didn’t during my screening), there will be someone on screen to welcome Salman. Will happen.
Kisi Ki Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan (Hindi)
Director: farhad samji
mould: Salman Khan, Pooja Hegde, Venkatesh, Bhumika Chawla, Shahnaz Gill, Jagapathi Babu, Palak Tiwari
runtime: 144 minutes
Story: Delhi’s good Bhaijaan (Salman) must protect his loved ones from threats from a Hyderabad don
Bhaijaan, like the man playing him, is single and proud. He will neither marry nor allow his three adopted brothers – Luv (Siddharth Nigam), Ishq (Raghav Juyal) and Moh (Jassi Gill) – to marry. “Women ruin families,” he points out, a worldview strangely never out of place in a Bollywood ‘family entertainer’. To allay his fears, his brother (who he is secretly dating) tries to set him up with Bhagyalakshmi (Pooja Hegde), his new tenant from Hyderabad. He is an antique restorer; An almost perfect professional profile for Salman’s heroine.
Once they hit it off, Bhagyalakshmi narrates her backstory. His brother, Annaya/Balakrishna (Venkatesh), abhors violence and hooliganism – a dilemma for Bhaijaan, who learns that his in-laws are under threat from a local don. Arriving in Hyderabad with his brothers (the setting in the original 2014 film was rural Tamil Nadu Veeram), he tries to broker but fails. This leads to the most raucous heist fight ever in a Hindi film – Salman is the noisiest action star, and Samji’s staging and fight choreography is fine, not subtle.
someone’s brother someone’s life Full of typical Salmanism. Fans, critics and casual viewers alike have nothing left but to connect with his previous films. Brothers become one of a kind’ bodyguardTo Ananya. The name of a child is ‘Munni’, such that Bajrangi Bhaijaan, Bhagyashree, Salman’s heroine I have loved (1989), and co-starred Bhumika Chawla To you (2003), get the unflattering cameo. The joke is that these once famous actresses are now married, settled women, while the brothers are roaming free at the age of 57. His prolonged celibacy is a boast, his presumed domesticity a pity.
The performances are defiantly, stubbornly below par. Salman doesn’t even try. In most scenes, he is either grinning wolfishly or furrowing his brows awkwardly. What he does, a self-aware pantomime of his limited acting skills, is more amusing than any other in the film. Pooja Hegde, tasked with romancing a man 25 years her senior, finds comedy in her predicament. His Bhagyalakshmi is often charming and witty, parodying Bhaijaan when he himself is not doing the honours.
We get an extended fight sequence in the Delhi Metro. from the memory of Pathan‘S The iconic train scene is still fresh, this looks like a downgrade. The Hyderabad affair doesn’t add much to the film, either visually or culturally. “Try our South Indian cuisine,” one character says in particular. Salman and Venkatesh team up for a lungi dance, dragging poor Ram Charan along. This Is The Worst Cross-Over Sequence In Years, A Complete And Unforgivable ErrorRRR,
“You are wonderful,” said Bhaijaan. “That’s the problem.” The complaint will resonate with anyone who has a love-hate relationship with Bollywood. Salman was never a serious actor. Nor was he, unlike Shah Rukh Khan or Hrithik Roshan, a consistently inspiring film star. Yet there were many phases in her career in the 90s and 2000s, especially when she starred in some memorable films. He was once briefly amazing, and that’s the problem.