Viru Devgan's surreal dream. Ajay Devgan's father took up no business of his own, oh, not his own. If I did a trick, everyone would be fine. My son usually does more than half of Dad’s tricks. No, it took him to direct. The result is more than depressing. More nauseating pathos and patriotic patriotism I have not met even in Indian cinema. The original film is called “Swear to India”. Ha-ha-ha, our distributors probably took into account that patriotic Indian films in Russia are in more than modest demand, so the film was renamed to the cool title “Saboteur”. Its creators - Devgan Films, and in Russian - father Viru and son Ajay Devgana, probably due to this and planned to "push" him at the box office. Alas, the attempt was unsuccessful, the film failed in India. At that time, the Indians chose romance and love - I mean such films as "Everything in life happens" and similar to them.
In a nutshell, the plot can be described as the protracted conflict between India and Pakistan. Ajay Devgan played twin brothers separated at birth. One grew up in Pakistan, the other in India, and the two were unaware of each other’s existence. Ajay Hindu has a beloved mother (Farida Jalal), and a patriotic one-armed uncle (Amitabh Bachchan). The Pakistani became a spy for Indian strategic secrets. Hindu became a writer, the author of cool spy thrillers in the genre of “action”. What was the surprise of intelligence, when it turned out that the writer in his books tells about real situations and heroes, although in theory it is a state secret!
Amitabh, as always, is a pro, and is very glad that this time he was not painted in a “radical black color with a greenish tint”, like Kisu Vorobyaninov, but was given a gray wig. The gray hair is very good for him.
Ajaya I already positively perceive, and here he is in a double copy. Perhaps he is the only reason to watch this nonsense. Conscientiously performed all the tricks, jumped from the plane without a parachute, generally flew like a superman, was missing only blue tights with red underpants and a cloak. I was also impressed by the scene where Ajay and Manisha, escaping from the pursuit by car, drove off the bridge to the railway under it. There was just a train passing, and they had to ride on the roofs of cars "anti-wool". Very impressive, but of course there were stuntmen in the car.
And so ... computer graphics — the unnaturalness of what is happening not only caught — pearl in the eye. Even in Bollywood of those times, you could find a worthy specialist in special effects and do it all on a level. But it happened.
The love lines are Ajay-Sushmita Sen and Ajay-Manisha Koiral. I think I liked the first one better. This is my earliest Sushmita and I am not disappointed. Nice girl. In this film, she played herself, Miss Universe. Despite the high-profile title, according to the script she is very decent, honest, cheerful, kind and most importantly female quality - patriotic! A real Indian woman. Although there is very little in the film.
Another heroine was Manisha Koirala, who appears in the film for the same period of time as Sushmita, 15 minutes from the force and she played the beloved of Pakistani Ajay. Here she turned out very well, sang a couple of songs, built eyes Ajayu and five times (once in every three minutes of presence in the film) asked his character: “Honey, when is our wedding?” Closer to the final, her heroine is completely out of the question, deprived of life, mixed with a patriotic streak ... Ew, how uncultured...
And a completely tiny role for 2-4 minutes was played by my favorite Kashmir Shah, the star of secondary roles. Probably because she appears in films for such a short time, never gets bored?
Of the other secondary stars in the film involved: Gulshan Grover, Kader Khan and Prem Chopra. Gulshan did not touch me at all, although in the plot he was a villain who kidnapped one of the twin brothers during the bombing. The same, Pakistani.
Two of the songs are Love Mujhe Love Ho Gaya Hai and Mera Dil Mein Aaj. Although I repeat, in comparison with other hits of these years, they pale and fade.
From fatty minuses: the film is confused, delusional and stupid. You jump from fifth to tenth without any transition, so you gradually lose the thread of the story. Everyone blows something up, and then — boom! — abruptly begins some romantic scene and song. And all this is punctuated by the patriotic speeches of Amitabh Bachchan, punctuated every five minutes. So the whole narrative seems more than lengthy, and many of these speeches could be thrown out. What they are, what they are not, is all one. If all this really dreamed of Ajayev Pope, then he can only be pityed.
I can tell you what made me laugh: the military. They ran during the film herds, periodically appearing in the frame. And ran haphazardly, causing their appearance the desire to laugh.
I was also laughed at by the hats that the military wore during the battle: woven from straw, and some twigs are stuck in them ... with leaves. I understand that if they had fought in the woods, maybe some bird would have bought into this illusion of sight, but they fought in a village where there was not a bush within a kilometer radius, only sand. What's that for? ?
Bottom line: if you watch this for Ajay, you can endure it. If that's the case, it's very difficult.
7 out of 10