SHIVAAY - A common problem , which every movie has , when the hero is also the director and producer of the film , is that , he doesn't allow the editor to cut much of the film , and that's the Biggest problem with Shivaay. It could have easily been a 120-130 min film , and would have been great , but in real its 173 min long , and drabs and drabs and drabs for a really long time. Many critics have criticized it by saying that action set pieces were very long , but i didn't find them long. In fact the only departments where movies gets full marks are the technical department which include action choreography , cinematography , visual effects and music including background score. And its the drama where scenes get too long and should have been edited. Because lets be clear AJAY DEVGAN is just an above average director , but if he would have concentrated more on action (which he undoubtedly did) and avoided long drama scenes (which he didn't do) then he would have intelligently made a pretty good film . We cant dig out logic in this film , just because it doesn't have dance numbers or unwanted punchlines and have more sleek action scenes doesn't mean that its not a masala film . So there were too many logical gaps in the film which i am not gonna discuss. When it comes to acting , it was a very easy role for Ajay's caliber , and he did it very fine. But the dialogue writer gave him too much larger then life dialogues , which didn't seem realistic. Every time any character ask Shivaay anything , he reply it with a dialogue like Big B use to reply in AGNEEPATH. Abigail Eames as the daughter of Shivaay is the best among the cast. And on contrary Vir Das is the worst. Both actresses are just average , which cost a little to the quality of the film
. The thing is that , action set pieces are gorgeous , and cover a big part of the film , and those action scenes keep you on the edge of the seat. And its important to watch those scenes on big screen. Like i mentioned , some better editing and a better director to handle the drama would have made this movie a lot better. But now its just an above average entertaining film . But i am glad that at least Ajay tried to raise the bar of Bollywood action with this film. And yes i think if someone didn't mind not so good long dramatic scenes and only cares about how good the action scenes are , then he may pretty much like this movie more then me. 6.8/10. by ANuP APu KuMaR
. The thing is that , action set pieces are gorgeous , and cover a big part of the film , and those action scenes keep you on the edge of the seat. And its important to watch those scenes on big screen. Like i mentioned , some better editing and a better director to handle the drama would have made this movie a lot better. But now its just an above average entertaining film . But i am glad that at least Ajay tried to raise the bar of Bollywood action with this film. And yes i think if someone didn't mind not so good long dramatic scenes and only cares about how good the action scenes are , then he may pretty much like this movie more then me. 6.8/10. by ANuP APu KuMaR