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Shivaay is so boring it can make an atheist pray to lord Shiva to stop the torture. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Can save you 173 minutes and a ticket worth of money. Shivaay climbs mountains in Slow mo like people usually breathe when a doctor asks to. He is a chilled out, chillum smoking sherpa who falls for Olga(a trekker)on an expedition. He justifies his name by showing his 3 tattoos: a snake, shiva's face & trishul. Simple. Right? Also,he Saves Olga from an avalanche by jumping into a tent and makes love while they await evacuation. Olga's expecting now and Shivay convinces against abortion by saying, " Ye bacha mujhe de do"! LOL. His daughter (Gaura) is firang, mute& can trek Mount Everest for a chocolate Because that's what kids do.On knowing about Olga, she wants to visit Bulgaria where the movie now takes the 'Taken' effect and Ajay fights everyone in Bulgaria to bring Olga back.Helping him is Vir das, a hacker who can enter any network using a dashboard. LOL. Just like Happy New Year! What keeps you awake is the Bolo Har Har song. The chase sequences are great but the emo drag kills them, too. Ajay and Gaura always get saved when bullets are being fired from both ends. By their Matrix like evading skills,They could have probably survived Hiroshima! The movie makes no sense and really needed a divine intervention while it was being shot.Shiv ji would get in his Rudra form if he gets to know a movie on his name has been made this bad! If you still choose to go watch it, remember! I warned ya!

SHIVAAY - A common problem , which every movie has , when the hero is also the director and producer of the film , is that , he doesn't allow the editor to cut much of the film , and that's the Biggest problem with Shivaay. It could have easily been a 120-130 min film , and would have been great , but in real its 173 min long , and drabs and drabs and drabs for a really long time. Many critics have criticized it by saying that action set pieces were very long , but i didn't find them long. In fact the only departments where movies gets full marks are the technical department which include action choreography , cinematography , visual effects and music including background score. And its the drama where scenes get too long and should have been edited. Because lets be clear AJAY DEVGAN is just an above average director , but if he would have concentrated more on action (which he undoubtedly did) and avoided long drama scenes (which he didn't do) then he would have intelligently made a pretty good film . We cant dig out logic in this film , just because it doesn't have dance numbers or unwanted punchlines and have more sleek action scenes doesn't mean that its not a masala film . So there were too many logical gaps in the film which i am not gonna discuss. When it comes to acting , it was a very easy role for Ajay's caliber , and he did it very fine. But the dialogue writer gave him too much larger then life dialogues , which didn't seem realistic. Every time any character ask Shivaay anything , he reply it with a dialogue like Big B use to reply in AGNEEPATH. Abigail Eames as the daughter of Shivaay is the best among the cast. And on contrary Vir Das is the worst. Both actresses are just average , which cost a little to the quality of the film

. The thing is that , action set pieces are gorgeous , and cover a big part of the film , and those action scenes keep you on the edge of the seat. And its important to watch those scenes on big screen. Like i mentioned , some better editing and a better director to handle the drama would have made this movie a lot better. But now its just an above average entertaining film . But i am glad that at least Ajay tried to raise the bar of Bollywood action with this film. And yes i think if someone didn't mind not so good long dramatic scenes and only cares about how good the action scenes are , then he may pretty much like this movie more then me. 6.8/10. by ANuP APu KuMaR

Shivaay is an Action film by Ajay Devgn and it also marks his directorial debut. The film is an out and out action film with more of fight sequences/trekking and less of words. It operates on a simple plot, though very powerful relationship that of a father- daughter, and wider issues like child trafficking at international level. It does have some breathtaking visuals of mountains and action sequences. But certainly the film has its own loopholes.

The film begins with Shivaay being knocked out to the ground and his breathing sound. The camera focuses on the hand-knitted doll lying there. Then the story is conveyed in flash back, to be precise 9 years back. Shivaay (Ajay Devgn) is a guide, who is an expert in trekking. He does help the people during catastrophic landslides and also helps Indian Army in covert operations. He falls in love with a Bulgarian girl Olga (Erika Kaar) who came for trekking to India. Olga gets uncomfortable when she comes to know regarding her unexpected pregnancy. She wanted to go back to Bulgaria and had her own life to live. She did not want the child, but Shivaay was very adamant on having the baby. He asks Olga to stay back till her delivery, give him the child and then go back. Olga goes back to Bulgaria giving the girl child to Shivaay. Then, one gets to see 8 year old mute Gaura (Abigail Eames) trekking along with Shivaay. When she discovers that her mother is in Bulgaria contrary to what had been conveyed to her about Olga not alive, she forces Shivaay to take her to Bulgaria to meet Olga. The moment they land in Bulgaria, the trouble starts. Very soon we see Shivaay chasing his enemies, running away from police authorities, getting trapped in a foreign land etc. Anushka (Sayesha Saigal), an embassy employee and Vir Das, a technical geek in a hacker's role come to the rescue of Shivaay. Parallels are drawn between Gaura- Shivaay's and Anushka-Girish Karnad's father-daughter relationships.

Shivaay lands into what sort of troubles? Who become his enemies and why? How does Shivaay fight back ? Is he able to explore the nexus of child trafficking ?

Regarding the cast, Ajay Devgn definitely stands out as Action Hero. Rest of the cast have less screen time and are OK. Girish Karnad, a great actor, is underutilized in the film.

Cinematographer Aseem Bajaj has indeed given some great visuals, it is top-notch.

What lacks in the film is that it is very quick in jumping from father-daughter bond/emotional connect to the issues of child trafficking followed by chasing sequences between Shivaay and the culprits and at times between Shivaay and police authorities too.

Shivaay is an out and out Ajay Devgn's Action film, which has some breathtaking visuals by Aseem Bajaj. Watch it, if you like action films.

I watched this First day First show, as I have lots of expectation from this movie but very frankly speaking its not that action oriented as it was shown in trailer, its more on family drama part rather than Action part, but this really doesn't mean its an average movie its a high class entertainment movie, which whole family can watch. Ajay Devgn at his best and amazing as usual, stunts and graphics and specially the location covered in Himalayan Mountains are not comparable to any other India movie, no doubt. Erika was too good in her role, Saiyasi Sehgal first rate in her small but important role, Actors like Vir Das as Ethical hacker, Girish Kannad was impressive in their cameos. Story is too old and the main negative point of movie may be inspire from some old movies Taken & rocky handsome. I am sure this movie will receive Negative reviews from Critic's though it will earn a lot of profit. An Bold Actor Like Ajay said in favor of Country apart from some bolly craps actor so he would be rated negatively by special critic group and media but in theater occupancy was 85 % better than ADHM which was 52%.

I will rate this 8/10.

Watch this movie at your own risk, chances are it might does some serious brain damage and by that I mean killing brain cells and by that I mean the sheer stupidity of the movie might rub off on you.

-Let me say this right off the bat that this movie is half-copy of Liam Neeson's Taken, but of course with Bollywood rendition which already sets the bar quite low. Through out the movie, you are gonna ask yourself whether Shivaay (Ajay Devgan) has super powers or is he like one of those south movies gimmick where one guy can easily take on an army of bad guys single handedly and I think it is latter because there is a scene where Ajay Devgan gets shot by a Gatling Gun from a Helicopter and still running faster than Usian Bolt like there's no tomorrow and acting all fine and then gets stabbed twice by the main antagonist, but still somehow manage to fight him on equal terms. I am still surprise that this movie has such a high rating despite the fact that the conclusion of the fight was a load of BS (SPOILERS AHEAD):-Towards the end of the movie both fell down from the cliff because they were obviously fighting at the edge, but for some reason that exact same deep cliff transformed into a slope cliff while they were falling and rolling because according to laws of physics it is impossible to roll while falling on a vertical cliff, right RIGHT? and they still somehow manage to survive {OBVIOUS PLOT ARMOR} and after Shivaay killed the antagonist he somehow teleported back to the top of the bridge from where he fell down in the first place, HOW? Are you telling me that guy who has been shot and stabbed somehow manage to climb that cliff with bare hands? That is ridiculous even for South Movies and I am not making this up, it literally happened like this.(SPOILERS END)

-Let's talk about the story now. The first hour of the movie pretty much establish this that Shivaay is the master of hill climbing and he has no equal, he is pretty much a god when it comes to Mountains. Okay, I get it but what in the hell is the point of this when it almost has no relationship with the rest of the movie. I mean literally more than half of the movie is dumb investigation and chasing after the suppose kidnappers. If the movie is trying to show us that because of the time he spent in the mountains is the reason why he is so supernaturally strong, then why not make a movie where Shivaay is some ex-govt. official? That would save your location budget and would establish a strong plot material.

-The only reason why I gave 2 rating because some of the CGI effects were damn fine like the one where the photo of Shivaay's daughter transforms into ash and disappears into thin air from Shivaay's hand, but that is it. One scene is not gonna save this un-holy god of an abomination.

An actor should never think of direction along with acting in it.

I have always liked Ajay Devgan for his acting. But, this movie is something, I never imagined. Far worst from the worsest.

Well, all you can see here is Bajrangi Bhaijaan(Hindi) + TAKEN (English) = TOTAL DISASTER by Ajay Devgan.

The logic is out of order most of the times, background music isn't matching always, no one would even remember the tune of any song, fights aren't good, emotions were out of line and story is a big DISASTER.

If I start writing about the spoilers, maybe I can't stop writing another big article about why this movie shouldn't have happened.

I never knew that, Ajay Devgan is the person behind the story, else I would have never wasted my time for it. It's really PATHETIC and worst. To be honest, this is the worst movie so far that I have seen in this year 2016.

Well, if you are just a fan of Ajay Devgan and doesn't care about

any aspects of the movie, then this movie is made for you, else, there is nothing much to be liked in it.

Movie Review: Shivaay Ratings: 3.5/5 Genre: Action/Romance/Thriller

In year 2008, Ajay Devgan has directed movie named 'U Me aur Hum' which was flopped on box office. These is the second time Ajay Devgan is directing movie (Shivaay). Will he mark the success with his direction or just fail as per last time. Let's analyze...

Story starts with the introduction of Shivaay (Ajay Devgan) with helping to Indian Army on some assignment. Once he leading a group of mountaineers, he meets Olga paramski ( Erika Kaar) and they both fall in love and have a child named Gaura (Abigial Eames). Olga leaves both Shivaay and Gaura and went back to her home country Bulgaria. Shivaay looks after Gaura as single parent. One day Gaura comes to know about her mother and wants to go Bulgaria to meet her mother. Shivaay and Gaura wents to Bulgaria to meet Olga, but Gaura has been kidnapped by unknown persons. Shivaay starts search for his daughter Gaura and is helped by Anushka (Sayyeshaa), Wahab (Vir Das) and Sharma (Saurabh Shukla). Does Shivaay manage to find his daughter Gaura and Olga in Unknown Country Bulgaria is what forms the rest of the film.

Shivaay has several plus points to watch it. Action Pack Scenes and Stunning visual effects are heart of the movie. Excellent Cinematography, Beautiful locations of Himalaya's range and Bulgaria are really looks awesome and gives stunning experience to viewers. Climax fight will definitely gives you Thrilling experience.

If we talk about Performances, Ajay Devgan has performed superbly as Shivaay and no doubt he carries full movie on his Shoulders. Abigial Eames is excellent in role of Ajay's mute daughter. Erika Kaar is good. Sayeeshaa, Vir Das & Saurabh Shukla helps movie to move forward in supporting roles.

On the whole, Shivaay was Superb Romantic Action Thriller, shows emotional story of Father and Daughter relations. Awesome stunning visual effects, Action pack Scenes and Excellent Cinematography makes it a perfect watch. Worth watching. Don't miss it...

Right now I have surging head-ache after watching Shivaay. I had high hopes because, ADHM left me extremely disappointed, I am a fan of Ajay Devgn. Alas, all hopes came crashing like that bad CGI'd avalanche. There was so much of Ajay that he couldn't make a cohesive story to stop his self- glorification. From the opening sequence I was sure that Ajay is going to glorify the hell out of himself in this movie and BOY, he does. He goes to the extent of defying physics(in practically every action scene), biology(nobody wears nothing even when surrounded by snow) and even LOGIC. I mean, the dude gets shot twice, stabbed twice, once in the back-bone, falls off a cliff and suffers only a sprain in his hand. COME ON!!OK, Let me just divide this review into parts.

ACTING- The acting in the movie suffers from tonal differences. None of the characters settle on one tone. Sometimes it's campy, sometimes dead-serious even in serious situations. There is a over-dose of Ajay Devgn. He is a mixture of Krrish, Shaktimann but also not. Does his powers come and go? On top of that the whole thing about his name being Shivaay, the name of the movie being Shivaay, his tattoos related to Shiva has actually no relevance. He is no re-incarnation nor is the story a modern adaptation of a mythological tale of the God. It's just plain confusing. Apparently it draws the crowd who believe in the mythology. Erika Kaar is average to be fair. It could have been done by practically anyone. Probably Ajay wanted to go to Bulgaria, so they chose her. I don't know why they went for a non-Indian actress. Abigail Eames is expressive and not going to the point of being over-the- top. I don't know whether she will work in the Hindi film industry or abroad but this shouldn't be her first and last performance in a feature length film. Vir Das, o gosh! Vir Das is supposed to be a hacker and according to Ajay Devgn, a hacker is like THAT. He just over-acted like . He was supposed to be the comic-relief but there was no subtlety in it. Sayesha Saigal probably was the flower-vase of this movie, the damsel who accompanies the protagonist. Now that I think of it, what did her character actually do to help him? She just drove Shivaay to the apparent villain and that's it. She didn't do any actual help to find the girl. It was so sad to see a hacker being portrayed so poorly and succumbing to the likes of that girl. NOW, the villain. There are three villains, the guy playing games on the phone, the old guy and Chengiz. Chengiz is the main villain, he has one line and a screen- time of 10 minutes max. YUP. The main villain. The guy playing games on the phone has no line, is a bit mysterious but when the final showdown begins he fizzles out like a stale firework. The background of the old guy isn't discovered. There are no layers to the only negative character which could have had some gravity to it.

DIRECTION and SCRIPT- Ajay Devgn put everything he had into the script but he forgot to add logic into it. Apparently a broken leg and dangling off a cliff doesn't stop someone from making out when you are just a few feet from death. The most shocking thing was the representation of the Nepali guy. He was stereo-typically named Kancha and talked in the "OO SHABJI" lingo. No nepali talks like that but in Ajay's world, they do. There is a chase scene and only, Ajay can make a chase scene feel boring. The fight scenes are used with vomit cam or shaky cam, because Ajay Devgn can't fake fight. It's clear that they were doing it slowly and the whole thing was sped up. The editing is extremely choppy. It is so choppy that the music in a scene doesn't end and the scene abruptly cuts to something else. The dialogues are so bland. Normal people don't talk in philosophical lines all the time. The script demanded there be an earthquake to let Gaura know about her mother. You see the vibe? There is no middle-ground. Either too bland or too over-the-top.

CINEMATOGRAPHY- When there is nothing happening the cinematography can be appreciated. The moment something starts all the build up goes to waste. The camera shakes and shakes till you see only a blur and nothing else. They tried to go for something different but it was much of the same. They made a chase scene look boring. How can u appreciate someone who made a chase scene look boring in an action movie? You can't. I think Bollywood has still a long way to go to match action and CGI heavy scenes with Hollywood.

FINAL VERDICT- Don't waste your money on this. Buy it on the DVD because 3 hours of this slug-fest is going to give you a head-ache like I have right now. If you a buy the DVD you can pause at your own will but if you go to the theatre you are in Ajay's territory and he won't let you leave when you want to. Trust me. Buy the DVD.

The cinematography is awesome however there are some scenes that are shaky specially on chasing scenes. The story is not that impressive as the plot is already seen in some Hollywood movies. The acting are not convincing and very strained. Film editing is poor as there are no proper transitions on important scene to the next chapter of the story i.e. intermission. The introductory scene showing Shivaay lying in prone position at the top of a hill has no connection with the story. The role of Gaura (Shivaay's daughter) may be better if she is not mute. I suspect that they cannot find a European girl that can speak Hindi fluently. Still, I can say that the film entertained me as Ajay has shown a very good fighting scenes and beautiful mountain shots.

Except the scenery, there is nothing to watch in the latest Singham star.

Ajay Devgan hits the screen with one more unwatchable action drama under his direction. He is there in every single frame of the film to carry out the burden the worst screen play of the decade. Abigail Eames delivers a powerful performance as a mute girl. Background score is also good and action scenes are watchable.

Saurabh Shukla, Girish Karnad & Vir Das are total waste. Worst part of the movie is EDITING. Story is simple but too stretched. Cinematography is good.

Last Words: Go watch this, only if don't have anything else to do...