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Heropanti - Drunk Monk - 04-26-2016
No I don't know why this film is titled so. I don't know what that means in Hindi. It's Bollywood, about as Bollywood as you can get. A major hit in India in 2014, won lots of Indian film awards. I watched it to see Tiger Schroff, who is an up-and-coming martial arts Bollywood star. He's pretty, too pretty, like a young JCVD but Indian and dreamier. He plays Bablu opposite Kriti Sanon, who plays Dimpy. Bablu and Dimpy. Yea, I had a hard time getting past those names too. It's full of Bollywood rom-com hijinks, and even an almost EDM dance number. Very colorful and predictable, assuming you know Bollywood.
But the fight scenes, well, Tiger is very acrobatic. He can throw a lovely slo-mo flying kick. The choreography is silly, one-shot:one-more, way too much gratuitous slo-mo. Tiger strips off his shirt at any any excuse - heck if I had that build, I would too. He does a nice Jackie-Chan level stunt - a parkourish leap from one building to the next - shot from many angles. I think he has great potential - he just needs a better choreographer and cinematographer.
I'm not recommending this film. But I'm hopeful for Tiger's next one - Baaghi - which I posted a trailer in Coming soon