Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Irrfan, Kangana Ranaut, Apoorva Lakhia
Directed by Mani Shankar
Rating: *
A ludicrous thriller which makes you laugh at its stupidities, plotholes and implausibilities.
Starring: Sanjay Dutt, Irrfan, Kangana Ranaut, Apoorva Lakhia
Directed by Mani Shankar
Rating: *
On the surface, Knock Out might look stylish with the gadgetry and stunts, but that’s about all that it can boast of. Sanjay Dutt plays the shooter with laidback ease except when he has to offer painful patriotic lectures. Irrfan is a corrupt, power-driven, womanising investment banker that Sanjay is out to teach a lesson to. Irrfan wears the strangest, curliest hairpiece of his career and is made to dance to ‘Touch me touch me touch me’ even as you moan and groan for the actor in him getting reduced to a buffoon. The Sanjay-Irrfan interactions and their cat-and-mouse game are more hysterical than electric or engaging. The humiliation of Irrfan and his sudden, sentimental change of heart, acceptance of guilt, consequent redemption and abrupt celebration of him as a hero totally lacks conviction. Things lead up to a most anarchic and untidy climax with a strange mix of ideology, politics and conscience at play. The child trafficking problem and electronic transfer of Swiss money back to the national treasury is feeble and unpersuasive. Moreover, equating patriotism with Rs 30,000 crore and ‘Vande Mataram’ as the background score is outrageously absurd. Kangana boldly wears an off-shoulder dress to look authentic as a hardnosed TV journo covering the incident. Her journo shows better investigative skills than the cops and easily sneaks into the building where the shooter is perched, a place that even the commandos find hard to take over. Meanwhile, the actress is in dire need of voice training and dialogue delivery coaching. The cherry on the cake is Apoorva Lakhia as a conscienceless encounter specialist. He makes the most pokerfaced appearance in Hindi cinema since Priya Rajvansh.
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