Tevar
Year: 2015
Director: Amit Sharma
Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Sonakshi Sinha, Manoj Bajpai, Raj Babbar, Dipti Nawal

Success of films like Dabbang, Ishqzaade, Chennai Express and R-Rajkumar has provided a new template for Bollywood’s wannabe blockbusters. Now practically every other film tries to make a violent love-story using rustic locales; hinterland lingo; a consortium of cops, goons and politicos; crude humor; bone-crunching violence and a raunchy item songs.

Used in right proportions and presented in right packaging, the formula works and entertains. But the problem is that no one knows the exact mix and hence more often than not we end up getting films, which besides being senseless and artless (supposedly the prime requirement for being a money-spinning Bollywood blockbuster!), are also totally devoid of entertainment value. 2015’s first major release Tevar is one such film!

What’s the plot?

An upright cop (Raj Babbar) and his wife (Dipti Nawal) have been indulgently tolerating their vagabond son’s (Arjun Kapoor) antics. The ruffian offspring whiles his time with his equally jobless friends, playing Kabaddi and picking fights on streets of Agra. Meanwhile in the neighbouring Mathura, the state home minister’s (Rajesh Sharma) henchman brother (Manoj Bajpai) has found a love interest in a firebrand journalist’s sister (Sonakshi Sinha). Obviously the young girl refuses the baddie’s unwanted advances. The villain makes the next move; he kills the girl’s brother and tries to kidnap her. Unwittingly the Agra youngster ends up spoiling these plans and rescuing the Mathura damsel in distress. How will he tackle the all-too-powerful criminal and his gang? How will the inevitable Agra boy-Mathura girl romance reach its conclusion?

What’s hot?

·        Manoj Bajpai’s villain is entertaining- at least in the beginning. Later even he becomes tiresome!

What’s not?

·        Practically everything jars in this poorly scripted and directed film.

·        The lead pair fails to ignite any chemistry on screen.

·        Arjun Kapoor is tolerable at best and irksome at worst!

·        Sonakshi Sinha delivers her most wooden performance till date.

·        An overload of bloody violence, ineffective item songs and tasteless humor.

Verdict

2015 begins with a stinker. Tevar is an avoidable fare.

Rating

1.5 stars