Watching RGV's Aag is like committing SUICIDE

There is no beating around the bush when it comes to the verdict on Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag.

“It’s the worst film I have seen in my entire life,” says a moviegoer outside a Delhi theater.

To start with, the rustic locales of Ramgarh which gave a sense of realism to the setting of the 1975 blockbuster has now been transported into suburban Mumbai with most of the film shot on film sets with artificial lighting – stylish but still leaves one feeling claustrophobic.

Though, the storyline of director Ram Gopal Varma's film is a spin-off of the original, the lack of characterisation proves to be the jarring difference between the classic and this forgettable flick.

Sample this – the most famous villain Gabbar Singh is now Babban Singh, never mind the name, but the evergreen dialogues of Gabbar like ‘Kitne aadmi the’ is now poorly compensated with Babban's facial contortions.
Even the friendship of Raj and Heero is shallow – forget about the Yeh Dosti bonding that one could die for. This 21st Century Jai and Veeru remain strangers till the very end and same goes for the chemistry or rather the lack of it between Raj and Durga.

Speaking of the leading ladies, Nisha Kothari as the vivacious Basanti or Ghungroo in this case, is a tapori with a bidi hanging from her lip, who also happens to be a Rajinikanth fan.

She struts around town in her auto personified as ‘laila’ but all through we just wait for her to light her bidi and actually smoke one! So, much like the movie – this aag too just doesn't light up.

With critics and fans trashing the movie, it looks like watching this one would be pure sooocide.