Badlapur Movie Review – Bollywood Bubble

Directed by: Sriram Raghvan
Produced by: Dinesh Vijan
Cast: Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yami Gautam, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte
Duration: 2 hours 5 minutes
Bollywood Bubble Rating: 4/5

Sriram Raghvan’s Badlapur is not any any other revenge flick where the audiences predict most of the plot, but is a story full of twits. The first 10 minutes of the movie are beautifully put up and should not be missed.

The film is a tale of Raghu’s (Varun Dhawan) revenge when his wife (Yami Gautam) and son get killed in a robbery episode. The robbery is undertaken by Layak (Nawazuddin Sidiqqui) and Vinay Pathak. While Nawaz gets arrested, Vinay manages to escape. Years pass by and even after 15 long years Raghu is unable to forgive and forget the episode and what follows is a series of events where voilence and twists are just a blink away.

Varun Dhawan sheds his lover boy garb and sports a perpetual scowl to express inner turmoil. He pulls it off for the most part.

Nawaz is superlative as Liak, bringing a sinful streak of twisted comedy, teaming it with unabashed swagger. It’s almost as if he was born as this character- that’s the level of conviction by this actor.

The ladies deliver adequately, but it’s Huma Qureshi (the sex worker) who brings more to her role than what it holds. Yami Gautam has little to do but looks luminous. Radhika Apte delivers a stellar performance.

Brisk and absorbing, concluding differently than expected, Badlapur is an inspired film that dangerously attempts to change the landscape of the thriller genre in Bollywood.

Having said that, this is not a typical entertainer at all. It’s for those who have an appetite for non-glossy, hard hitting & raw cinema.