His latest venture Baby is another perfectly outlandish and white-knuckled action thriller - a seemingly intelligent but mindless piece of well-oiled escapism that delivers several crowd-pleasing moments of action mayhem. They have reasonably realistic depiction of police work and ludicrous ‘holy cow that was awesome’ thrills. His films don’t have clueless idiots with walkie talkies pretending to be commandoes. The flip side of this whole phenomenon is the polite snub given to the women folk, as neither do they have strong roles in these movies, nor are they able to emerge from just being the eye candy for the central character.Director Neeraj Pandey’s films are a mixture of old school Bollywood formula, slick modern execution and bouts of intense suspense with some bombastic, social commentary.
A perfect amalgamation of commercial and art cinema, ‘Baby’, thus, has nearly centennial chances of amassing praises of critics as well as moolah at the Box Office. ‘Baby’ made a record of nationwide trending on micro blogging site Twitter even before the release of its teaser, leave alone trailer. The buzz on the movie is so much that the movie can be a big and huge hit without calling for extensive promotions. The content as pure as the movie upholds needs serious execution, not promotions. ‘Baby’ has not been promoted extensively, on Akshay’s say as he didn’t want this special movie to be out and about. And we agree! If he keeps doing movies like ‘Holiday’ and ‘Special 26’, the likes of ‘Entertainment’ will still be bearable. Akshay Kumar, Neeraj’s trusted samaritan, reprises a cop in this movie, which also features Anupam Kher in a pivotal role.įilmmaker Sanjay Gupta was recently quoted saying that Akshay Kumar can ‘turn the tide in favour of sensible cinema’. The movie centres around terrorism and gives a profound take on the army men and on those who lay their lives for the nation. He has yet again taken the mantle and shot Akshay in the upcoming movie ‘Baby’. Perhaps that’s why Neeraj Pandey, director of the critically acclaimed ‘A Wednesday’, took a chance with Akshay Kumar in ‘Special 26’ and made a movie to remember. Whether it’s his comic timing, well displayed in movies like ‘Hera Pheri’ and ‘Namastey London’, or romantic side in ‘Aitraaz’ or ‘Dhadkan’ or the action-heroism in ‘Rowdy Rathore’ or any of the ‘Khiladi’ movies or the villainous streak in ‘Ek Ajnabi’, Akshay Kumar excels in whatever role he plays. What he does, it’s his life and his decisions and mostly, they are right.Īkshay Kumar has nothing to lose he has enough money, enough of star value and enough charm to woo the audiences back whenever he wants.Īnd one cannot overlook the exceptional talent the actor possesses.
Apart from marrying a superstar’s ( Rajesh Khanna) daughter Twinkle Khanna, he doesn’t have any other star connection too. Though ‘Entertainment’ didn’t entertain the people much, we still can’t complain.Īkshay Kumar is a self made star he never had a godfather in the industry, so he doesn’t have anybody to be answerable to. He knows ‘Welcome’ worked in 2007, and ‘Holiday’ will work in 2014. What makes Akshay Kumar so different from others? It may be the inherent Punjabi genes that goad him to take well calculated risks.