A woman enters into the dark realm of espionage after rumbling with a tragedy and a ruffled past. The movie is all about Shabana (Tapsee), a young Muslim girl endowed with a strong spirit and special knack for kickboxing. The movie is a prequel to the 2015 Neeraj Pandey directed movie "Baby". This time Neeraj has scripted the tale where the happenings occur a few years prior the mission "Baby". The movie does include a lot of the stars of the erstwhile one, Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa and includes Manoj Bajpayee in a pivotal role. Tapsee who played a cameo in Baby beating up a terrorist in a Kathmandu hotel room is the central character here. Neeraj and Director Shivam Nair do a smart job in telling the story from the girl's point of view. What made a simple girl transform into a kick ass secret-agent forms the first half of the story. The problem in stating the tale from the scratch is that there are high chances that the ending may result in being improperly fleshed out. That's what has exactly happened with the film.
When the movie turns into the final mission of eliminating the prime arms dealer, the plot seemed to rush from thereon. There seemed to be too many loose ends which the story struggled to connect. Why did the agents failed to comprehend the facial similarity between Tony and Mikhail at the very beginning? Even though they missed it, why was Tony allowed to go to the loo with such casual cover? When the latter put a knife in one of the agent's belly, weren't the rest able to hear the scream? Why didn't they react immediately all together? We see a poker faced Akshay Kumar coming to Shabana's aid every now and then. Was it an international mission or a protégé training program? Why didn't Akshay himself do it? It clearly seemed at least none of the things which Tapsee did would have been impossible for him. Why was She inducted in the middle of her training program? Was there a dearth in agent pool?
Thus one finds a promising first half immersing into a boring one in the second. As far as performances are concerned, Tapsee shoulders the lead role with great elan. She emoted diverse emotions and looked extremely believable in the action scenes. With performances in Pink and now in this one, she is definitely the next big thing in B Town. Manoj Bajpayee does remind you of Special Chabbis with a little more English dialogues in his delivery. Danny, Akshay and Anupam simply reenact their "Baby" molds in pieces. The antagonist played by the Malayali star Prithviraj is extremely impressive and one wished to see more of him.
Overall it's definitely a one time watch.
When the movie turns into the final mission of eliminating the prime arms dealer, the plot seemed to rush from thereon. There seemed to be too many loose ends which the story struggled to connect. Why did the agents failed to comprehend the facial similarity between Tony and Mikhail at the very beginning? Even though they missed it, why was Tony allowed to go to the loo with such casual cover? When the latter put a knife in one of the agent's belly, weren't the rest able to hear the scream? Why didn't they react immediately all together? We see a poker faced Akshay Kumar coming to Shabana's aid every now and then. Was it an international mission or a protégé training program? Why didn't Akshay himself do it? It clearly seemed at least none of the things which Tapsee did would have been impossible for him. Why was She inducted in the middle of her training program? Was there a dearth in agent pool?
Thus one finds a promising first half immersing into a boring one in the second. As far as performances are concerned, Tapsee shoulders the lead role with great elan. She emoted diverse emotions and looked extremely believable in the action scenes. With performances in Pink and now in this one, she is definitely the next big thing in B Town. Manoj Bajpayee does remind you of Special Chabbis with a little more English dialogues in his delivery. Danny, Akshay and Anupam simply reenact their "Baby" molds in pieces. The antagonist played by the Malayali star Prithviraj is extremely impressive and one wished to see more of him.
Overall it's definitely a one time watch.