Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Manoj
bajpai, Raj babbar
Director:
Length: 2hrs and 40 minutes approx
For films like TEVAR, the templates are set
and therefore the only thing which has to be worked upon is to put all the
genres effectively into the film and not compromising on scenes which can be
elaborated for few whistles and claps. Fair enough! We understand a film has to
cater to masses who enjoys drama which has protagonist spewing few heroic
dialogues and antagonist who is at the back-foot. TEVAR too comes from the same
school of film-making. In-fact the film is overtly repetitive in its narration
where we see the lead pair only running away from the goons, a plot that’s been
exploited to death in Bollywood.
But the film benefits enormously from its
leading man who submits himself to the rustic, grounded rowdy boy who finds
fighting with goons equivalent to playing Kabaddi. The film is pretty brisk in
its first hour even if it lasts for 80 minutes. Few scenes stand-out like the
ones between Arjun and his sister or Arjun kapoor and Raj Babbar or even the
intense and engaging intermission episode. Not that everything is correct here though-
the introduction part of Sonakshi is abrupt and the song is too mild to hook
you. Also the item number, which is decent enough, feels like has popped in
wrong time.
Post interval, TEVAR doesn’t lose it all at
once. It has few gripping parts, like the one with Raj Babbar and Sonakshi
Sinha. But intermittently the film stumbles and has to use western looking
dance numbers which can be best termed boring! Who expects this film which is
unapologetically earthy and “Indian” trying to put lights on for their actor to
do some western dance numbers? But what really bogs TEVAR down is last half
hour where TEVAR loses direction to where to take its story ahead and that
brings in exaggerated and overplayed emotions followed up by stale action
sequence. Only if the climax was devised in smarter manner, TEVAR could have
been a satisfying watch.
The dialogues at places are funny and some
dialogues cheesy. The action scenes initially are good and it is really
refreshing to see some new angles and shots and thrills in action scenes.
Although as pointed, it seemed like the action director ran short of ideas in
climax which looked like rehashed versions of earlier action scenes of the
film. The newbie director has to be credited for handling the first half
effectively despite the routine screenplay.
Arjun kapoor displays vulnerability and
aggression with equal zeal. He does have to work on the emotional scenes which
comes across towards the weak finale, but still, he is the film to holds the
film together. Manoj Bajpai, although in a role that is type casted for him,
gives nice dimension of his character- a character that is brutal but falls for
a girl as easily as any other guy in the town, a character that is fooled
several times and yet he manages to send through menacing vibes across.
Sonakshi sinha, well my review for her remains the same as what was for few of
her earlier films. Raj babbar is terrific in few scenes that he appears in.
TEVAR is watchable, but it saddens to see
that the film breaks down in the final half hour where ideally it should’ve
been its strongest. Go for it, have a good first two hours and then assume as
if you’re watching the rest of the film just a duty of finishing the whole
film.
Rating – 2.5/5
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