Review of Son of Sardar

Release Date - 13'th November 2012

One Word which describes the film - Disappointing

Most Used  Dialogue – Kabhi has bhi diya karo 

Genre - Comedy 

Direction -  Ashwni Dhir

Producer –  Ajay Devgn , N.R.Pachisia , Pravin Talreja


Cast- Ajay Devgn , Sanjay Dutt ,  Sonakshi Sinha , Juhi Chawla

Budget - 30 crores 

In his debut film Phool Aur Kaante (1991) Ajay Devgn impressed everyone with his stunt of standing on two moving bikes. After 11 years he tries to do the same on two running horses. But this time the stunt looks more of a computerized effect . 
The film is a remake of South Indian film  Maryada Ramanna directed by  S S Rajamouli . After watching Makkhi  ( Eega ) I had high hopes from  Son of Sardar but it ended up like another Rohit Shetty film and if it's possible even worse than that . At least Rohit Shetty's film fall in the senseless comedy genre and appeal to the masses . Son of Sardar  tried to mix comedy with romance with lots of songs added with lame two liners which according to Devgn himself are the kinds written on the back of trucks. 

There were the usual South Indian film elements  , flying cars , flying people , flying bike .The difference was that every one was talking in Punjabi and after every 10 min there was talk of whiskey . When the film released  I read on the film's wikipedia page that the budget was 80 crores .While watching the film I was wondering where did they spend that much money as there were no foreign shoots , no designer dresses or lavish  Karan Johar  kind of larger than life sets . It's good that they changed the budget to 30 crores or people would have thought that they were actually serving Blue Label scotch (approx 12 K per bottle) to all the cast and crew 24-7 !

Sanjay Dutt was not as irritating as he was in Rascals but such kind of films do nothing to reestablish his  image as a good actor . After all he has given us films like Naam (1986) , Sadak, Saajan , Khal Nayak ,Vaastav: The Reality,  Munna Bhai M.B.B.S., Lage Raho Munna Bhai etc.

Sonakshi as the loud Punjabi girl looked pretty . She had no great scenes to show her talent. 

Senior actor like Tanuja were totally wasted .She was shown suffering from a kind of Retrograde amnesia  ( trying to use the term I learned in Jab tak hai jaan ! )

In a line, If  instead of saying after every 5 minutes 'Kabhi has bhi liya karo' the makers had really tried to make a comedy which genuinely made people laugh, we would have not been so disappointed.
AVOIDABLE .