Review of Brothers (2015) by Ash N — 31 Oct 2015

As a NRI viewer I might be among the few to actually appreciate the absence a few 'currently traditional' elements of a usual 'Bollywood' movie...of-course it was under borders because of being a remake of a Hollywood movie but even as that is true you didn't have a character playing the usual 'stupid joker' type instead the principal role was a light touch to the funny element which is needed for a movie like this, you didn't have a 'villain', there weren't lots of songs and the songs that were there had some story elements going in the background, no actor(esp Akshay Kumar) was doing any over-acting like they do in Singh is king or many movies like Om Shanti Om/Bajrangi Bhaijaan (to avoid actor names..) etc or any of the other masalla movies which has sadly become the traditional movie of India. The movie felt at a good pace for a movie going around 'mma/fighting'.

To be true with movies like Singh is king and all in which its recommended to not bring your brains in the theatre to think and instead blindly laugh (which has become the main line movies in Bollywood sadly) I had low hopes for good acting from Akshay Kumar but he still has it and that's good to know as that could also mean that actors like ShahRukh Khan, Salman Khan, etc could still do good acting instead making bling-bling off of over-acted roles in garbage movies and songs that have no good lyrics, music or dancing and are only meant to show actress's watermelons and booty (there was one such song in this movie too alas! but I suppose they wanted at-least some India public to watch the movie too eh!).

With the recent news of WWE and TNA showcasing in India soon here's to hoping that MMA comes to India in the same spectacular way as they show in the movie...which, for a movie, was rather realistic in ideals...in India in reality MMA is/would be considered a criminal's playground and hence banned which isn't even nearly the case in real MMA..movies have the power to shape future and plus with the appearance of entertainment shows like WWE and TNA maybe real fighting like MMA/UFC could land in India sooner!. :).