Insaaf:The Final Justice is a typical action vehicle which was completely rejected upon release. During the late 1990s, audiences were dissatisfied with such absurd films which appeared severely jaded. In fact, a long list of action flicks were failing despite having saleable stars like Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, and Sunny Deol. Thus, the disastrous performance of Insaaf is no surprise; it was simply delayed and the concept was done to death.
Insaaf tells the routine story of a hard boiled police inspector, Vikram Singh. He is the honest cop who cannot stand any kind of illicit activities in Mumbai. He leads a blithe life with his sister, Aarti Singh, who teaches in a school. When Vikram clashes with a local mob boss, Chiman Bhai, his radiant conveniently falls apart. Naturally, Vikram will slaughter all those who ruined his colorful. Most of Insaaf's second half focuses on how Vikram slays each and every villain.
Insaaf's plot is pretty mundane with an extremely unimaginative screenplay. It takes this wearisome vehicle a significant amount of time to develop the plot. To make matters worse, there are some forced comedy scenes which test your patience. As usual, the first half is full of comedy and romance which are never established properly. In fact, they seem pretty disjointed. The fun moments are mostly few and far between. The second half does evoke some interest but it quickly becomes too dull. The entire chain of events showcasing the brutal death of Vikram's sister and her students is just overdone. In addition, it is really hard to digest that one girl is able to survive for a significant amount of time despite being wounded with bullets. The most nonsensical portion of the film is when Akshay attacks Alok in the loo. He is not able to extract any information out of him and the film continues to drag. On the flipside, the hospital rescue sequence is decently demonstrated. Overall, the direction by Dayal Nihalani leaves a lot to be desired.
Anand Milind's music is one of the saving graces of the film. It is pretty entertaining despite some oafish lyrics. The most popular song from the film, Baarana De, is catchy but has ridiculously defective lyrics. Taana Tandana is alright with hilarious choreography. The best song is Meri Jaane Jaana. The song is soulful with good beats as well. It's sad that this singer never got many popular songs. The action by Akbar Bakshi is pretty average. There is only one memorable sequence which involves Akshay hanging on a chopper to reach the villains one by one.
Akshay Kumar is very average in his third act as a cop in 1997. He was much better as the inspector in Sabse Bada Khiladi. He overdoes scenes in which he has to express his frustration. Despite excelling in stunts as usual, this is one of Akshay's weaker films. Thankfully, he has done a notable amount of films which are worth remembering. Shilpa Shetty is decent but she does not get a lot of scope to act. She is mostly propped up as eye candy but she does her bit without hamming it up. Paresh Rawal is good but he did a better job as the humorous mob boss in Sunil Shetty's smash hit, Anth. Ranjeet is alright but has very little to do. Alok Nath hams it up whenever he has to excessively worry about losing his illicitly attained position as a minister. Mohan Joshi is good in a positive role for once. Rana Jung Bahadur repeats his side villain act. His character shouldn't have been terminated early in the film. Achyut Potdar has a very small role and he does what is required. The rest provide decent support and manage to fill the bill.
On the whole, Insaaf is a commonplace film with minimal qualities. It will only be re-watched by those who love to watch Akshay Kumar kick butt. I would say that this humdrum is strictly for Akshay Kumar fans.
Insaaf tells the routine story of a hard boiled police inspector, Vikram Singh. He is the honest cop who cannot stand any kind of illicit activities in Mumbai. He leads a blithe life with his sister, Aarti Singh, who teaches in a school. When Vikram clashes with a local mob boss, Chiman Bhai, his radiant conveniently falls apart. Naturally, Vikram will slaughter all those who ruined his colorful. Most of Insaaf's second half focuses on how Vikram slays each and every villain.
Insaaf's plot is pretty mundane with an extremely unimaginative screenplay. It takes this wearisome vehicle a significant amount of time to develop the plot. To make matters worse, there are some forced comedy scenes which test your patience. As usual, the first half is full of comedy and romance which are never established properly. In fact, they seem pretty disjointed. The fun moments are mostly few and far between. The second half does evoke some interest but it quickly becomes too dull. The entire chain of events showcasing the brutal death of Vikram's sister and her students is just overdone. In addition, it is really hard to digest that one girl is able to survive for a significant amount of time despite being wounded with bullets. The most nonsensical portion of the film is when Akshay attacks Alok in the loo. He is not able to extract any information out of him and the film continues to drag. On the flipside, the hospital rescue sequence is decently demonstrated. Overall, the direction by Dayal Nihalani leaves a lot to be desired.
Anand Milind's music is one of the saving graces of the film. It is pretty entertaining despite some oafish lyrics. The most popular song from the film, Baarana De, is catchy but has ridiculously defective lyrics. Taana Tandana is alright with hilarious choreography. The best song is Meri Jaane Jaana. The song is soulful with good beats as well. It's sad that this singer never got many popular songs. The action by Akbar Bakshi is pretty average. There is only one memorable sequence which involves Akshay hanging on a chopper to reach the villains one by one.
Akshay Kumar is very average in his third act as a cop in 1997. He was much better as the inspector in Sabse Bada Khiladi. He overdoes scenes in which he has to express his frustration. Despite excelling in stunts as usual, this is one of Akshay's weaker films. Thankfully, he has done a notable amount of films which are worth remembering. Shilpa Shetty is decent but she does not get a lot of scope to act. She is mostly propped up as eye candy but she does her bit without hamming it up. Paresh Rawal is good but he did a better job as the humorous mob boss in Sunil Shetty's smash hit, Anth. Ranjeet is alright but has very little to do. Alok Nath hams it up whenever he has to excessively worry about losing his illicitly attained position as a minister. Mohan Joshi is good in a positive role for once. Rana Jung Bahadur repeats his side villain act. His character shouldn't have been terminated early in the film. Achyut Potdar has a very small role and he does what is required. The rest provide decent support and manage to fill the bill.
On the whole, Insaaf is a commonplace film with minimal qualities. It will only be re-watched by those who love to watch Akshay Kumar kick butt. I would say that this humdrum is strictly for Akshay Kumar fans.
