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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

A.R. Murugaddos should direct only one half of a movie and then just simply give the screenplay to another director. If you see his filmography till now (Ghajini(2008), Holiday(2014)), they all start out great. It is almost grounded and then as soon as the movie hits the half-hour mark, Murugaddos starts going haywire. I maybe panned for writing negatively about a movie basically about women empowerment but let's see if I care. I'll just say this that Ghostbusters(2016) is proof enough that interchanging the gender of the protagonist with the opposite sex isn't the right way to promote women empowerment. If this movie had a guy, doing the same thing which Akira was doing, my review wouldn't have changed.STORY/SCREENPLAY(?) - We follow Akira(Sonakshi Sinha), a girl from Jodhpur, who from an early age takes on the habit of fighting bullies and eve-teasers. Cut to Akira in present day, where she is being taken by her brother to Mumbai, where she can continue her studies. I mean, not completely against her will. She was reluctant but her Principal coaxes her to move from her small town and go for better opportunities. She joins a college and sudden cut to a corrupt police officer, ACP Rane(Anurag Kashyap) who does villainous stuff and is caught in the act. Then Akira is framed and linked to ACP Rane and then I don't know what happens. I really don't. At one point she is put in an insane asylum, she breaks out and has a Mexican stand-off with Rane. The point till Rane is introduced, the movie has some good topics like acid-attack victims(though it is done extremely crudely), bullying, ragging. Then it becomes extremely formulaic and masala. I am saying that the acid-attack topic is done very crudely is because of the way it is shown. In which part of the town does the whole town comes to see how the victim looks? I don't know.DIRECTION - As I mentioned earlier, it feels like for the entire second half of the movie, Murugaddos just got drunk and did whatever the hell he felt like. The movie begins with a narration of Konkona Sen Sharma's character, Rabia. Probably I skipped a lot, but I am pretty sure it wasn't sure who Rabia was narrating this story to. The editing is straight from hell. In one shot in particular at about 16 minutes into the movie a breakfast scene is going on. You can see nobody standing behind Akira's brother and all of a sudden her mother appears. Completely out of nowhere! I am clubbing the fight choreography into this section. As it is evident from the title, they should have used Sonakshi's stunt double instead of Sonakshi Sinha. I absolutely love Sonakshi Sinha but you can see whenever she is on-screen during the fight scenes, she isn't at par with the requirements of the scene. Suddenly when her stunt double appears, Akira is doing flips and stuff. It's 2016. Come on already. The audience isn't blind anymore, and what's with happy endings, man? Just put a grim, realistic ending. Ah! You've to make a realistic movie first, right?ACTING - Anurag Kashyap as ACP Rane clearly kills it as the corrupt police officer. He never has an off-beat scene. Sonakshi Sinha is exceptional when she verbally stands up against the bullies but during the fight scenes, she just ruins it. Lokesh Gupte as Manik had a lot of screen-time, but he botched it up too. I keep saying that the writing is very important. So the writing could also have been the reason.FINAL VERDICT - Obviously give it a pass but do one thing, please. Just go around the 15 minute mark in the movie where the family is having breakfast and witness the shocking magical appearance of Akira's mother. It's worth a watch.

This is a story of the relentless persecution of a woman, daring to break out of the stereotypical mold, by a failed social system which is both corrupt and broken. Hard-hitting and depressing - mainstream Bollywood seldom gets this realistic. Yet, this is such an ordinary, everyday story - being played out again and again all around us. In Indian society, a young girl who dares to question the system, a girl who dares to protest - is an anachronism. She is either disciplined and that rare spark of life is extinguished even before it is properly lit. Or she gets lucky and finds a supporter, like Akira did in her father. In reality it is more of a misfortune. Apart from that unusual mentor the unusual woman remains utterly alone all through her life. In fact, the society raises even steeper barriers in her path overcompensating for that one supportive mentor whether or not s/he continues to be around. In the end, the lone struggle of the young woman invariably runs out of options and we are once again left saddened with the depressing realisation that it is not easy to be a woman even in the twenty-first century.

If you likes sensible movies then this movie is surely not for you. If you want unnecessary entertainment, you can waste your money. The Only thing Good about the movie is Sonakshi's and Konkana's Acting. There are many holes in the story lines and there are many stretched scenes which breaks the feeling to continue the movie. Maximum of the scenes of this movie is Dramatic and Unreal, like with no issue a boy was going to attack akira with knife and she was the God of fighting she can handle everyone at a time. You can easily guess what is going to happen? Like 3 police officers were going to kill 3 person one of them is akira. The movie has just started and it was sure that she is not going to be killed and that escaping scene is stretched for more than 15 minutes. I have given 2 starts and that's all for acting. Since I watch sensible movies. I gave this 2 star but some people don't go for logic they just go for watching their fav actress and enjoyment. It's your choice go and enjoy!!

Nothing is new in this movie. Just for momentarily tension build up they unnecessarily stretched most of scenes. There is a classic example of this. In a scene, if you have watched few action dramas then you are damn sure that girl is not going to die but then makers come up with a tension build up plan. They executed and conceived that scene in such way. Three Police men take to three person including girl for encounter. One person shoots a guy , as he moves towards girl, he gets call from his senior, who narrates some change in plan but then first person mobile switches off due to battery run down, another person does not carry his mobile due to mistake, then they decide to leave a person after some lengthy argument to hold handcuffed rest two on gunpoint , while they go to some distance in their Police van to call their senior. They get instruction to shoot all of them as they try to come back, their Police van does not start due to mechanical fault so one of them takes a bicycle, already kept there, God knows why and instructs another person to shoot the girl. It tests fifteen minute of your patience where you are over sure about the outcome. Film starts with scenes of heavy issue of acid attack and visually established it but then no use in further script only it was stuffed just for giving the lead girl inspiration to learn marshal art. Scenes unfolds like ,goons throw acid to a girl, lead become witness, goons threat her then she learns marshal arts and beats the goon. Much time is wasted just for giving the reason of her learning marshal art and going to juvenile remind home. It should be in flashes rather than taking so much time. Then movie moves forward to some college female goon angle with some lame college Politics and scenes like, Villain girl hits her food plate in canteen then unplugs the mike cable so she can not give her speech. All are so stale scenes, then shockingly lead girl come up with sign language. Only makers know where she learns it and what was the motto behind this preachy and illogical scene. Police sends girl in mental asylum because they can't kill her then an eunuch, who looks and behaves mentally unstable but suddenly tries to help the lead girl. He sneaks the key from cricket watching warden with the help of a stick, again stale scene. Police manipulates girl's family that she is mentally sick and they believe it by default. Again girl is trapped then suddenly that eunuch comes to rescue her as an ambulance driver, never established that he can drive. In climax, Police superintendent, who has been established good one turns grey and instructs a honest female Police officer to leave free the culprits and she does so, because she believes that lead girl is sufficient able to handle Villain, how could she come up with such a drastic conclusion. She had never witnessed lead strength. A line comes on end credits that " Film is dedicated to all women , who fought back" but leading lady of this film just reacts most of the time to the situations rather than fighting. Performance wise Sonakshi Sinha as Akira is good. Konkana Sen Sharma is fantastic. Anurag Kashyap is OK.