Wazir Review

Wazir DVD Review

This contains spoilers.

The premise of this movie is a police officer named Ali loses his daughter to a shootout and befriends that daughter’s old chess teacher and gets mixed up in an old case which has lots of unanswered questions.

First off, the story itself might have been good, but this movie is marred by characters doing illogical things and co-incidences and plot holes.

I mean to say, no father would go chasing terrorists with his daughter in the car. They needed the father to be grieving and blaming himself, but they could have written that scene better.

Then Mr Bachchan’s character Panditji magically knows when to find ali at his weakest and about to commit suicide. He then proceeds to pretend to accidentally drop his wallet, which he hopes he will notice and give back to him.

The plot got so predictable that just post the second phone call from Wazir, it’s obvious that there IS NO Wazir, it’s all a setup.

Then there are Plot holes such as, how does a person with no legs and no terrorist connection manage to get explosives to blow up the van.

How can he change his voice so much as to sound like neil nithin mukesh

When ali was shooting down, john Abraham’s character says, he has a few seconds. Then he proceeds to talk to the girl and embrace her and that takes at least few minutes. Yet no security forces come inside.

All these story and plot issues aside, the acting is decent all over. The heroine in this film has nothing much to do except pout and be upset. Farhan Akhtar does a fine job as a serious officer / grieving father.

The movie fails to live up to its name of Wazir and the mystery of who is this Wazir is not expanded upon. Everything felt rushed and yet the film was sort of slow.

The visuals were sharp and crisp, the score is decent. The Songs slowed the proceedings down, but not for a long time.

Over all this could have been a much better movie, but its sub-par execution left much to be desired.

Rating : 5.5/10. A onetime watch for Amitabh fans and Farhan’s fans.

P.S: That’s TWO movies now, where Amitabh plays the old man who setups up the police to find the real culprit. That’s a strange typecasting! Like how Leo Di Caprio played a grieving husband in Inception and shutter Island in the same year.