Mumbai Saga Review: This gangster drama is must watch film for it’s direction, screenplay and most important massy dialogues
Mumbai Saga Movie Rating: 3.5 Stars
Finally watched Mumbai Saga movie on Amazon Prime Video. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: John Abraham, Emraan Hashmi, Mahesh Manjrekar, Prateik Babbar, Rohit Roy, Kajal Aggarwal, Suniel Shetty, Samir Soni, Shaad Randhawa, Gulshan Grover and Anjana Sukhani
Director: Sanjay Gupta
Release Date: 27th April 2021 on Amazon Prime Video
Story: It is the story of a gangster and his rivalry with a cop. In the mid-80s, Amartya Rao (John Abraham) lives with his family comprising of his father (Rajendra Gupta), brother Arjun (Harsh Sharma) and wife Seema (Kajal Aggarwal) in Mumbai. His family sells vegetables on the streets and are harrowed as they have to pay ‘hafta’ (bribe) to the goons of Gaitonde (Amole Gupte). One day, Arjun argues with one of the goons who then throws Arjun off from a bridge. Amartya saves him in the nick of time before Arjun gets crushed under the train. Amartya till now had decided to not get involved with gangsters.
However, he loves Arjun to death and the attack on him enrages him. He single handedly assaults Gaitonde’s men and even chops off the hand of one of the goons. Gaitonde, who operates from the jail, tells the police to get Amartya arrested. Moreover, he puts Amartya in the same jail as him. Gaitonde’s henchmen attack Amartya in the prison. Yet again, Amartya single handedly defeats them. Gaitonde now realises that Amartya is too dangerous. The next day, Amartya is released on bail. This is made possible by Bhau (Mahesh Manjrekar), the unofficial king of Mumbai. Bhau offers Amartya to work for him and to find a solution to Gaitonde and his menace. Amartya also has the support of narcotics dealer Nari Khan (Gulshan Grover) and Sada Anna (Sunil Shetty).
The story then moves 12 years ahead. Arjun (Prateik Babbar) has now grown up and Amartya sends him off to UK to protect him. Meanwhile, Sunil Khaitan (Samir Soni) is an industrialist who owns a mill, built by his ancestors. He wants to fire all the mill workers, demolish the mill and sell the land for an astronomical price. He takes the help of Gaitonde to evict the mill owners. Bhau tells Amartya to stop the Khaitaan Mill from materializing so that he can get the votes of mill workers. Amartya meets Sunil and warns him of dire consequences. Sunil complains to Gaitonde about Amartya’s trend. In retaliation, Gaitonde tries to kill Arjun when the latter is in Mumbai on a short visit.
Arjun escapes unhurt. An angry Amartya then finishes off Sunil Khaitan in broad daylight. His widow, Sonali (Anjana Sukhani) goes to the police headquarters and announces that she’ll reward Rs. 10 crore to the cop who kills Amartya. Vijay Savarkar (Emraan Hashmi) gets interested in this offer and decides that he’ll kill Amartya, come what may. He vows to eliminate Amartya and goes after him but the latter shifts to London for some time. What happens next forms the rest of the film.
Positives
1. Excellent performances
2. Story
3. Screenplay
4. Direction
5. Dialogues
Negatives
1. Cinematography
2. Music
3. Climax
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : > When I watched the trailer planned to watch this movie when it premiere on OTT because trailer is amazing and always loved gangster drama and in this film cast is also amazing.
Based on the true-life story of underworld dons Amar and Ashwin Naik, Mumbai Saga is the story of a commoner-turned-gangster Amartya Rao, whose dramatic rise in the Mumbai of nineties was marked by lawlessness, betrayal and bloody gang wars.
Film begins on a rocking note which depicts the politician-gangster nexus in Mumbai a few decades ago. The film wastes no time as it soon comes to the point as to why Amartya became a don. Post interval the cat and mouse chase between Amartya and Savarkar keeps viewers on the edge of their seats, as also the sudden twist in the tale in the pre-climax. The climax though could have been better still it is worth watching. On the whole, MUMBAI SAGA is a film that deserves to be experienced on the big screen. It is embellished with massy moments, clap worthy dialogues, sudden twists and loads of style. My View on this movie Highly Recommended!!
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