Shivaay Hiindi Movie Review

You are left wondering for nearly three hours if anyone would want to make a film like this. This is truly Ajay Devgn’s Himalayan blunder. Scenes in the film when you see some character or the other shedding tears you are tempted to believe that it is captured while they were seeing rushes of the film. In fact, a child in the sparsely seated theatre cried loudly and I wondered if it was a case of the child asking about the Emperor’s new clothes!!
Tiringly and disgustingly long the film takes just too much for granted. Agonisingly told with a speed that is conspicuous for lack of it and for lack of direction you could yawn your way through or just sit to supreme boredom with total resignation. The choice is entirely yours.
Shivaay (Ajay Devgn) is that hookah dragging brave heart in the Himalayas who is saving people with his dare devilry when he is not conducting trekking tours. On one such tour the team are confronted with a avalanche which becomes the whirlwind of his life. He saves a member of the team Olga (Erica Karr). In a revisit to the Roop tera Mastana scenario, the lady is pregnant and the mother to be. She sees sense and declares that though she loves Shivaay the relationship has no future. She has to return to Bulgaria and he cannot leave the Himalayas. She tries to tell him that abortion is the only sensible road ahead. He vetoes it. Nine years later when his mute daughter Gori (Abigail Eames) realises that she has a mother tucked away in another part of the globe she insists on making a trip and searching for the mother who left her behind. Thus, the two leave for Bulgaria in search of Olga. Things take a turn for the worse when Shivaay can not only not find his wife but sees his daughter being kidnapped.
From this stage the entire film is hijacked by the person who is in charge of the stunts and action and there is nothing in the film but chases and gun shots and fights and car crashes as the desperate father fights hard to save his daughter from being a prospective victim for trafficking and ensures she is saved. When you think that he has finally saved her you have a fresh serving of another bout of long violence where Shivaay out does the magic of a Rajnikanth. You shake your head in total disbelief and by now at the end of your patience and even relieved that it is all over. Wait a minute, it is not. Then we have a suggestive battle for custody of the child between Olga who has screamed her way back into the script and the ever brooding Shivaay supported by local lass in waiting Anushka (Sayyesha Saigal). Just when you are about to say: I couldn’t care less, the film maker takes the much delayed bow and the film (and with it the agony) comes to an end.
Ajay has lost the plot. It is simply incomprehensible that so much of effort has been put into a script that begs for sanity and relevance. In fact, for a good part of the film the script goes missing as does entertainment or curiosity. Only cinematography and action keeps the film going, or it would be the audience going – going out with promptitude. Ajay as usual is brooding eternally and even when in love. He has the signature expression which can now be patented for consistency. None in the cast impress. Olga and the rest are shouting their lungs out without reason.

Rating: 2 stars
+ Cinematography and action
– Unbearably and irrelevantly long.

L. Ravichander.