Cast : Zarine Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff and Salman Khan
Director : Anil Sharma
Running Time : 2 Hours 50 minutes (approx)
Rating : 1 out of 4
Release Date : January 22nd 2010
Veer is the story of, well, Veer, who is a Pindari (a warrior clan) and his journey of love and battle against the British! There I am sitting in the movie hall, minutes before the movie starts, expecting full fledged battle scenes, epic war sequences and so on. 3 Hours later, there I am nursing my damaged brain. Never, ever, trust the trailer of a movie.
The movie opens with the Pindari clan helping out a rajput maharaja, win a battle. The Pindari, do their job well, but the maharaja, instead of rewarding them, kills them and that ignites a revenge plot between Pindari clan leader Prithvi Singh and the maharaja. Fast forward to 25 years or so, the young son of Prithvi Singh is, Veer. Veer, future leader of the clan, is sent to London for studies. I am not sure if much of studies happened, but Veer does get a hair cut and fall in love with this hot girl. No guesses as to who’s daughter she is. She is, as fate happens in all Bollywood movies, daughter of the maharaja. Yep! So, Mr.Veer returns to India, and 1 ½ hour later, he is dead! However, he dies, after making sure that the maharaj is killed and the Pindari have got their revenge.
Seriously, man, how could they do this? The movie opens with a really good train hijacking sequence. Then, Anil Sharma screws up everything by ending the hijack with a tame a eye contact between the leads! Then, there is a decent battle scene as well, in the first 5 minutes, and was I disappointed, when I found out, that, that is the only battle in the entire movie! The hard hitting opening is followed by endless, father-son drama scenes, boring songs, romance scenes and more boring songs. The ending where Veer dies is just against reasoning. I think Sharma re-shot the ending where Veer might have survived, so as to get some sympathy votes from the audience.
There are questions galore in my head as the movie progressed. I will never understand what is Sohail Khan’s role in the movie. Why is he even in the movie? Is the movie a epic war movie as promised by the promos and publicity? (It is not because I counted about 10 minutes of battle scenes) Is the movie about love and romance? (the love arc of the movie is filled with scenes other love movies, and executed pretty ordinarily) Is the movie a comedy? (which is why Sohail Khan is there, but I do not find him funny at all). It actually breaks my heart to see all the glorious production design (very well done when showing the 1920s Rajasthan and London) go total waste. With such a huge budget, what could have been. I think the whole movie is a missed moment of awesome. Totally depressing. Instead of Veer, they should have just called the movie Love Story 1920! At least, Love Story 2050 was so bad it was good. Veer, is just not to be.
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