Review of Raid . . .

Review of Raid . . .

             

Raj Kumar Gupta is expert in making suspense and thriller films. I loved his previous works such as #Aamir and #NoOneKilledJessica

Raid is based on true story happened in the mid 80s in Income Tax Department at the city of Lucknow. It falls in the genre of #Special26 like suspense and also it has thrills included. Gripping storyline with perfect timing. Never bored me for a minute. Sometimes it's headache when a simple screenplay stretched by the writers but here film is having length of only 128mins therefore i could bear the unnecessary romantic sequences between the IT officer and his wife.

Dialogues written very well written by Ritesh Shah who impressed me with his writing work in #Pink

Conversations between IT officer Abhay Patnayak (Ajay Devgn) & Tauji (Saurabh Shukla) is mind blowing and makes movie worth watch.

Performances by protagonist and antagonist takes movie to the superior level. It's always great treat to watch Ajay Devgn in an honest cop or common man role whether it was #Yuva or #Apaharan or #Singham i loved him in many of his movies. He once stated that he is lazy actor sometimes he doesn't even do much but i believe that his simplicity in the role is what makes me his big fan. &  i have been always big fan of Saurabh Shukla since the character Kallu Mama he played in #Satya His dialogue speaking and physical appearance always shines in negative roles or comedy roles. His comic timing is perfect. Here Patnayak VS Tauji game is worth watch only because of these two talented actors. Nowadays Akshay Kumar is also doing several hard hitting roles like Ajay Devgn. It was keep reminding me of #Special16 and #JollyLLB2 kinda films.

Music by Amit Trivedi is nice and two tracks by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan lovely.

Several scenes like Ajay's first time entry in office and induction with the staff, His entry in the house of Tauji, his interrogation on phones with other officials, and of course climax.

Ileana D'Cruz is also decent in the role of wife of an honest IT officer.

Over all it was really good gripping thriller drama made by the director.

Specially for the performances.

3.5/5.

--- Harsh Desai Filmy . . .