Salim and Javed were the masters of recycling of older plots and sometimes genres of classic superheats.
Shaan was supposed to bring alive the Bond style of film making to the Indian silver screen but Salim-Javed did not succeed in doing that.
Salim-Javed were too much into the success of Sholay, and their desperate attempts to emulate that success, shows and detracts from making Shaan a Bond style of film. Sunil Dutt as the inspector emulates Thakur's role as a policeman battling the main villain. Vijay and Ravi play small time crooks to emulate Jai and Veeru but their escapades are mainly in the city rather than in villages.
The script takes too long to develop the rather thin plot and Shatrughan Sinha's character has to be allowed to play the role of Jai he missed out on, in Sholay. So we have a needless 'bridge' as backdrop to an action sequence, and Sinha delivering Jai like dialogue about how he will not miss Shakal if he shoots.
Rakhee's emulation of Jaya's widow role thankfully is cut short.
Bachchan is not allowed to build up on his angry man image and his action sequences are kept too short.
The car chases and the helicopter rides have their impact as do the 'interiors' of Shakal's HQ on an island.
Only Kharbanda gives his all to his Shakal role. The rest of the cast just are too focused on starring in the next big success after Sholay.
An outdated Johnny Lever and a debutant Mazhar Khan clutter up the scene and the plot.
The songs are just so so. Helen is wasted in the final dance song.
The background in almost all scenes is too cheap, with a bus as the scene for a song between the two heroes and the two heroines.
A pity given the huge budget spent on the villain's HO.
Shaan was supposed to bring alive the Bond style of film making to the Indian silver screen but Salim-Javed did not succeed in doing that.
Salim-Javed were too much into the success of Sholay, and their desperate attempts to emulate that success, shows and detracts from making Shaan a Bond style of film. Sunil Dutt as the inspector emulates Thakur's role as a policeman battling the main villain. Vijay and Ravi play small time crooks to emulate Jai and Veeru but their escapades are mainly in the city rather than in villages.
The script takes too long to develop the rather thin plot and Shatrughan Sinha's character has to be allowed to play the role of Jai he missed out on, in Sholay. So we have a needless 'bridge' as backdrop to an action sequence, and Sinha delivering Jai like dialogue about how he will not miss Shakal if he shoots.
Rakhee's emulation of Jaya's widow role thankfully is cut short.
Bachchan is not allowed to build up on his angry man image and his action sequences are kept too short.
The car chases and the helicopter rides have their impact as do the 'interiors' of Shakal's HQ on an island.
Only Kharbanda gives his all to his Shakal role. The rest of the cast just are too focused on starring in the next big success after Sholay.
An outdated Johnny Lever and a debutant Mazhar Khan clutter up the scene and the plot.
The songs are just so so. Helen is wasted in the final dance song.
The background in almost all scenes is too cheap, with a bus as the scene for a song between the two heroes and the two heroines.
A pity given the huge budget spent on the villain's HO.