First things first, Its not a bad movie, but it didn't do much for me
atleast. It has its twists and turns but is predictable through most of
its length. Dialogues are very good, Direction is okay okay, but not
great acting, pathetic music+ background score, kinda slow narration
made me not 'love it'. Infact, i was quite irritated with the
resemblance to omkara, its like omkara's affordable remake. Its a
decent watch if you have spare time. But Nothing pathbreaking, Nothing
new but not bad as well.
SBG revolves around an ex-nawab
saheb (Jimmy) who has no money anymore and has to resort to petty
government tender politics and killings. His wife (Mahie) is crazy
(Though i'm not sure why. Whether its because of her husband has a
mistress or her ex-lover was murdered earlier ! ) and survives through
sudden bouts of outbursts full of hamming for no apparent reason. A
Pseudo Gangster (Randeep) is sent by Saheb's enemy to give them his news
so that he can be murdered. But he falls in love with the Biwi and has
an affair with her. Some twists and turns later, The mistress is killed
and saheb comes back to the biwi. Biwi is now suddenly alright and the
gangster wants to kill the husband. Then comes the climax, two-three
gunshots and Suddenly, the movie ends !!!
Let's talk about
the good first. The Dialogues are amazing and the director also tries
his hard to give that UP-ish look and feel to the setting. The actors
are just about surviving their parts. The twists and turns are
interesting and you seem to get a feeling that the movie is going
somewhere in an interesting territory.
But that's where
the goods end, You keep feeling something interesting would happen but
doesn't. Repeat after Repeat of sex scene between the mistress and the
saheb, biwi and the gangster. Since the actors fail to portray that
passion onscreen, the sudden change of mind of biwi or the gangster's
actually falling in love with the biwi is abrupt and you are like what!!
really?? There are many 'WTF moments' especially when you realize that
the enemy is not able to kill a single saheb with a body guard. So he
had to rely on some outsider to provide him information !! Actors try
too hard to look and act like pro-theater artists but Saheb is no omkara
and Gangster is no Kesu Firangi. Songs are soooo bad that you can't
tolerate even a single song for more than 10 seconds.
Overall,
An Okay Okay Effort, suffers majorly from not great anything in the
movie. Everywhere, its either average or below average. Can watch if you
have nothing else to do this weekend.
Feel-O-Meter: 4/10
PS:
I haven't seen the original Saheb, Biwi aur Ghulam so might have missed
out something important. But still don't get it why some people were so
gung-ho about it. Counter views welcomed