bobbysing Another official remake from Karan Johar's production house with the remake specialist director Karan Malhotra, BROTHERS tries hard to create the same impact generated by English action film WARRIOR (2011). But in the process goes on adding many unwanted, forced elements in its first half diluting the end-result that could have been much better with a more focused vision and quality writing.Unexpectedly beginning on a slower note, BROTHERS is a big disappointment before the intermission since the director considers his audience still stuck in somewhere around 80-90s who would need a long family detailing with the same old concepts of the other woman, a drunkard husband, a soutela bhai (step-brother) and a deadly accident before moving on to the basic theme. In fact the first half of BROTHERS (partially reminding you of Manmohan Desai-Amitabh's NASEEB) is full of all forced progressions where apart from the family trouble we also have the usual songs, romance and an item number too displaying the sick mentality of the makers quite clearly. Plus one can also easily notice the imbalanced life- description of both the brothers, where the elder one gets a better mileage (being the bigger star) and the younger one is made to play a much weaker character as compared to the original script and treatment of the English film. But here, specifically coming back to the inclusion of an item number I would like to raise a socially relevant question to the makers with reference to the fan following of these famous fighters of the sport in India. "Every socially aware person in the country (as well as abroad) having kid boys in the family very well knows that these fighters of WWF, WWE, RAW and their best selling digital games are actually more famous among the boys in the age group of 8-15. Now even after knowing the fact, what kind of ailing mentality forced them to add a typical item song featuring Kareena Kapoor doing all those vulgar body movements and striptease in the film remains out of my understanding. Not sure whether this was an idea of Karan Johar or Karan Malhotra. But it was indeed an outcome of a highly confused mindset or from the one who simply wishes to focus on the box office returns or personal relationships but not the target viewers."Moreover the poor first half also makes you think about the substandard writing repeatedly. For instance I would love to know where in Mumbai are these fighter hubs actually (always had this question while watching NASEEB too) and what kind of school hires a teacher with big tattoos all over his body clearly visible to the students. In addition I personally have never been comfortable watching characters talking with their father or mother in 'Tu, Tera, Tuney' lingo disrespectfully.Anyway if you simply ignore or forget the inferior story progression of BROTHERS in its first half then it isn't that bad remake in its concluding part, as post intermission it strictly follows the path shown by its original and adds some good Indian insertions that work perfectly (like hitting the father in front of the son & a peppy number running in the backdrop during the wins). So where its initial part fails to make any kind of emotional connect with the viewers, the final hour somehow finds a decent grip mainly due to the impressive training sequences and individual fights of both the brothers in their various rounds providing the much awaited excitement, thrill and action to the restless audience.The film has an average soundtrack (surprisingly coming from KJO's production house) which was not at all required in the first place. But still it has one fine love song and a catchy anthem, not properly used in the fight sequences. However the impressive cinematography and action together try hard to provide the much needed lift to the film in its final hour. But again here too a highly uneven and ineffective background score keeps pulling it back just at the right moments, when an intelligently chosen piece or an exciting baseline was actually needed the most. Besides, the editing could easily have made the film shorter by 10-12 minutes, avoiding the prolonged sequences in the first half and the repetitive ones in the second.In the cast ensemble, it's actually Jackie Shroff who scores the maximum even before Akshay and Sidharth. Especially watch out for him in the finale and in the scene when he gets the sight of his grand-daughter for the first time. Akshay Kumar as the elder brother does complete justice to his role of a son, husband, father, teacher and a tough fighter together. He displays a fine balance playing the various dimensions of his character excelling in the fight & training sequences in particular. Sidharth Malhotra on the other hand, holds himself strong in front of Akshay and Shroff and delivers a matured, praiseworthy performance despite having the weakest role in terms of writing. And adding a bit of nostalgia, the two brothers standing in front of each other in the boxing stance reminded me of JOHNY MERA NAAM's climax with Dev Anand and Pran playing the brothers.In the supporting cast, Jacqueline Fernandez is decent as the simple wife and Shefali Shah once again shines in her small role. Ashutosh Rana, Kiran Kumar and Raj Zutshi are just fine, whereas Kareena Kapoor seems to be of no use opting for such kind of item numbers as a low-grade dancer doing a striptease.In all, you can easily give it a skip if you are not a big fan of action or ring fights. But the viewers interested in this particular sport form and free style action would mostly enjoy the second half of the movie as a one-time watch alone and nothing else.

tony benny First of all,let's not compare Brothers with Warrior!This film may not have done a good job on remaking Warrior but its a sure treat for those who haven't watched it.It contains emotion along with action.A few disappointing points may be that its boring in the first half,and the second half has nothing but action.But that doesn't have to be a big thing!.People have to go along with the story.Though the movie is very bloody,and keeps making sounds of bones breaking which is really exaggerated,it's still worth a watch.Jackie Shroff has played his role extremely well and so did Akshay.Sidharth din't have much of a performance to do in this film,he's like a silent guy who doesn't talk much.But he did well too! Jacqueline killed it! Some people have found this movie disappointing,but I have found it a fine remake.Well,I guess its out of theater's,so I suggest those who haven't watched it yet.Stop reading the negative comments and go for it!(I meant to download it :> Once its out In clear print,if you care about the graphics.Warning:This movie is fit only for a one-time watch.Watching it twice wont be enjoyed.

Milan Singh Entire movie is copied from "Warriors" movie. These DIRECTORs, PRODUCERs Must have shame. If you are copping so much at least put the name on credit... No, they like to deceive Indian people, make money and don't care what the world will say of India...Guys just stop giving credit for these types of full copy movie in Bollywood. These people shows that they don't care about creativeness only lazy and care about coping, deceiving and making money.. For these people we Indian and the name of Bollywood goes down..I hated the movie from start to end. If you have also watched "Warriors" you will see how much the entire thing is copied. Just the difference you will actually find is TOO MUCH DRAMA .

samiem41 I would have loved to give negative rating. I don't understand which kind of people have voted good for this movie. This is a nightmare movie which can only give you headache. Only show this movie to your enemies. This is the first review of mine, found a option to include spoiler..Let me tell, there is nothing called spoiler in this movie. The entire movie was a spoiler. Disgusting is the word which I would say.Waste story, waste acting. Someone said that second half is good, hence i waited like a fool for good part.Even if you subtract 2:25 mins from this movie. That 5 min is still intolerable. Nothing just nothing at all is good.Its one epic from bollywood like "Jhoom barabar jhoom, AAG " People should use this movie against criminals to torture them, nuffin more than that.