Nikamma

STORY: When a jobless middle-class boy Adi (Abhimanyu Dassani) realises that his sister-in-law, RTO officer Avni (Shilpa Shetty) has always meant well and cared for him, he starts protecting her discreetly against Vikramjit (Abhimanyu Singh), a rogue businessman who wishes to become a politician. Does he succeed? REVIEW: Adi (Abhimanyu Dassani) is an aimless young man, forced to live with his bhabhi Avni (Shilpa Shetty), an honest RTO officer. They seem emotionally disconnected from one another, until circumstances bring out the truth to Adi. His bhabhi has always been on his team and is willing to make sacrifices to see him succeed. When a threat looms large on Avni’s life, Adi decides to discreetly guard her. Director Sabbir Khan’ remake of Middle Class Abbayi (Telugu), starring Nani and Sai Pallavi, aims to present the story of a middle class family, its beliefs, actions and reactions to tough situations. What it eventually does is present a confused tale of a young lad, whiling away his life and family’s money, until he’s made to realise his sister-in-law’s true emotions for him. In a runtime of two hours and twenty eight minutes, the film has very little to offer in terms of entertainment. A few funny lines here and there, and some power-packed action scenes are insufficient to glue the wafer-thin plot together and make it entertaining. The movie feels way too lengthy for its runtime. The story takes very long to come to its central issue which also seems dated. The f...

Nikamma Review & Review Rating Abhimanyu Dassani) is an unemployed youth with an unusual power. He has a photographic memory and can easily remember and recall past episodes. His elder brother, Raman (Samir Soni) dotes on him and fulfills all his wishes. But after Raman gets married to Avni ( Shirely Setia). She instantly proposes to him. Adi is taken aback but he decides to stay back and begin an affair with Natasha. He soon finds out that she is Avni’s cousin and that she had seen Adi in Avni and Raman’s wedding. That is when she had fallen for him and had decided that she will marry him. Natasha is residing in the college hostel in Dhamli but she leaves it and shifts in Avni’s place so that she could be close to Adi. Avni is unaware of their love affair but when she finds out, she sends Natasha to her parent’s place. This angers Adi even more. On the other hand, Avni also frustrates one more individual – Vikramjit Bisht (Abhimanyu Singh). He’s touted as the next MLA and runs a taxi service called Super. In order to expand his business and ensure that passengers opt for Super, Vikramjit floods the roads with his cabs, some of which are illegal. When the bus service association raises an objection, he sets fire to one of the buses, killing 40 people on board. He is also hand-in-gloves with Avni’s senior, Arun Rastogi. Avni, however, decides to take action against Vikramjit and seizes his illegal cars. Vikramjit is so angry that he goes to RTO to kill her. At the same mom...

Story Nikamma opens with an injured Adi (Abhimanyu Dassani) checking upon a comatose man in a hospital. When one of the nurses quiz him about his concern for the patient, the film hits the rewind button. Adi is a lazy, happy-go-lucky guy who shares a close equation with his brother Raman (Samir Soni). With the entry of Avni (Shilpa Shetty) as Raman's wife, Adi imagines himself as being knocked off the 'happy' photograph and desperately clinging to the frame. Later, Adi is forced to relocate to another city, Dhaamli with Avni when the latter who works as a regional transport officer gets a job transfer. There, the hapless guy finds himself pushed all over the house as Avni entrusts him with day-to-day household jobs. Amidst this, he also finds time to romance his girlfriend Natasha (Shirley Setia). And then like Adi exclaims in the trailer, "Jab life ho itni jhakaas, tabhi lagti hain hero ki vaat." Enters the villain Vikramjeet Bisht (Abhimanyu Singh) who soon locks horns with Avni. But fret not, there's Mr Nikamma who is all set to be the saviour for his sister-in-law because 'jab problem family pe aati hain na toh ek Nikamma hi kaam aata hain.' Direction Nani's Middle Class Abbayi was a commercial potboiler which banked heavily on the performances more than the script. Director Sabbir Khan tries to use the same template for Nikamma. However, his mediocre execution plays a major spoilsport. A massy entertainer needs a certain conviction and this is where Khan stumbles. Als...

Who amongst us thinks we are in 2022? Not the makers responsible for ‘ Nikamma’, a remake of Telugu hit ‘Middle Class Abbayi’, because they have come up with a film so moth-balled that it would have been roundly rejected even in the 80s. Jobless Adi (Abhimanyu Dassani) is just another version of your standard-procedure Bollywood hero. A brat, made much of by his affectionate family, which includes a big brother (Sameer Soni), and seemingly strict sister-in-law (Shilpa Shetty). But we all know that Adi is just biding his time, waiting for a chance to reveal his true colours. This is also a film which is meant to be Shilpa Shetty’s comeback, so for the price of one, we get two heroes. Shetty plays a government officer in a small town, going up against the local baddie (Abhimanyu Singh), who lives in a palace and is always surrounded by a posse of scowling goons. So that’s your film: Adi and his ‘maa samaan’ Bhabhi up against the Very Bad Guy. Set pieces featuring bike chases, fight scenes, bloody limbs, and one guy taking on all comers. And just so you know they haven’t been forgotten, a couple of song-and-dances. There’s not one thing in this film that we haven’t seen a zillion times before. Unless you think Ms Shetty trying to be badass counts. Or maybe that’s what the filmmakers think. Abhimanyu Dasani does a fair job of playing yet another version of