Manoj Bajpayee in ‘Bhaiya Ji’

A mix of Bhojpuri and South Indian masala films, brother This is a different challenge for popular Hindi cinema. It seems that the producers want to reach out to the single screen audience of the Hindi belt, who are missing their films. Native The multiplex showcases the hero and his rustic surroundings. It is also a rare action drama where both the hero and the villain are actors who revel in bringing out the nuances of their characters. After enjoying the realism, where they also make their silences count, Manoj Bajpayee and Suvinder Vicky arrived on the sets of Salman Khan’s action film this week with their method acting toolkit.

There is nothing wrong with that and everyone was eager to see how Bajpayee, who is known to go to great lengths to flesh out his characters, literally takes the cue to take on his opponents. Director and co-writer Apoorv Singh Karki, who has worked with Bajpayee on the courtroom drama just one guy is enough, This time the stage is set for a tale of revenge, but with the age-old plot and the inclusion of talented players, it fire of revenge It ends.

The intentions are clear but the result is disappointing as Karki who did a wonderful job in his debut feature film fails to put his vision into the final print. Based on the internal conflict between Brahmin and Rajput satraps in the eastern parts of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, the battle of egos takes a horrific turn when Ram Charan (Manoj Bajpayee) aka Bhaiya Ji has to come out of self-imposed retirement when his stepbrother Bhola is killed by the son (Jatin Goswami) of Chandrabhan Singh (Suvinder Vicky).

After explaining the premise, the narrative takes a predictable shape. An idealistic mother who wants an eye for an eye, a prospective wife (Zoya Hussain) who might pull the trigger, a cunning police officer (Vipin Sharma) who switches sides, etcetera. The problem is that Karky is not sure about the tone. In his attempt to give a somewhat realistic touch to commercial tropes, the mayhem turns into a mess. Revenge dramas run on a regular supply of genuine emotions, but here it dries up after the first injection. Dialogues And the pretense that attracts you in the first fifteen minutes gradually starts to ring hollow. Moreover, all the colour, charisma and clap-fests that the film promises turn into sarcasm and cacophony. Then there are problems with editing and pacing and the storytelling in the second half starts to feel erratic, repetitive and inconsistent.

Without any flesh, Bajpayee looks like a pathetic figure. The intensity on his face is diminished by the madness that surrounds him on screen. You want to see Bhaiya Ji fight for pride, but not in the space given to him by Karki. The action choreography is not seamlessly integrated into the narrative as the internal logic doesn’t hold up. It feels like we are watching a series of ‘entry’ scenes of Bhaiya Ji, interspersed with some absurd rhetoric. The romantic angle between Bajpayee and Zoya is ignored and the Bhojpuri songs lack recall value. Suvinder Vicky understands the dialect and mood and along with Vipin Sharma, provides some sparks, but they are not enough to keep the embers burning.

Bhaiya Ji is currently running in theatres