Salman as Comic-Book Style Hero in Veer

Salman’s much awaited Veer was released this week. Two and a half hour long film fails to impress the audience, though this has all masala, dialogues to draw whistles from certain section and melodious numbers.

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Costume drama Veer is a blend of Manmohan Desai films and and Hollywood warrior flicks. This mega-scale love story written by Salman himself and directed by Anil Sharma as Warrior hero fails to impress with the content quality.

The film is set in pre-independence era and revolves around a warrior tribe Pindharis. Jacie Shroff is villian as the king of Madhavgarh who cheats the Pindhari tribe to get favour of Britishers. Head of tribe Prithvi Singh is played by Mithun Chakraborty. He grooms his two sons – Veer and Punya (Sohail Khan) to take the revenge.

Zarine Khan makes debut as Yashodhara the princess of Madhavgarh. She carries the look fabulously and falls in love with Veer. Display of heavy jewellery to mark the wealth of Rajwada is beautiful. Her resemblance to Katrina was talked about by cine magazines.

There does not seem to be any logic in various patches which are not well integrated but are put just to bring out the heroic qualities of the central character. Be that the a strange swayamvar scene, killing of the wrestler or flared nostrils. Director Anil Sharma had done this before in Gaddar

Jackie Shroff is far off from the villainous presence of Amresh Puri who could leave more impact than hero himself. Mithun has brought the hurting pain of betrayal in his character.

The film can take you to the theaters only if you are hard core Salman fan else can be avoided. He is a comic hero in this film doing every thing successfully and winning over the princess at the end

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