Baarood (The Fire) - A Love Story (2012) User Reviews

Dwand Yudh

[superindrajit · 1/10 · 16 February 2015]

Sunil Shetty was a big name in the 1990s but his solo action films started failing after the 1990s. In the 1990s period, he had several flops but he was able to give big solo hits like Anth (1994) and Gopi Kishan (1994). However, he changed his image and did more social dramas and better made films post 2000. However, there were still the typical action films like Aaghaz(2000)which failed to make a mark at the box office. However, there were certain times when Sunil Shetty had to leave some of his movies incomplete because they kept getting delayed. There were a few films which he lost interest in; he did not want to be a part of these insanely long delayed movies. Officer(2001) was probably one of the few delayed release for which Sunil did all the shooting and dubbing without leaving the project incomplete. However, there were a few long delayed movies like Dilruba (later titled Khanjar) and Dwand Yudh (later titled Barood) which Sunil did not want to associated anymore. He was probably sick and tired that these movies were not releasing and he must have cut his connections with these films completely.

Barood: The Fire (A Love Story) is one such insanely long delayed film. Sunil Shetty had abandoned this film after his scenes of the entire film was shot. As a result, the audiences get a half baked movie which is incomplete. To make matters worse, most actors did not dub for the film. The film was completely outdated when it released in 2012 and it flopped miserably. Barood is a very typical romantic action flick which would have flopped even if it had released on time in the 1990s. The plot and concept is typical and the handling is a new version of terrible. The film was incomplete so it does not even make sense. The film starts with Sunil's scenes and his love with Shilpa Shirodkar. The romance is seriously outdated and the action is poorly shot. Action scenes just randomly pop up and the makers fail to tell the typical story properly. Sunil Shetty disappears by the end of the movie and this make it even more cringe-worthy.

Direction by Jagdish Pandey is horrible. The one time director fails to effectively handle the typical romantic action movie. It feels like a movie where nothing makes proper sense; editing is completely missing which makes the film worse as scenes pop up randomly without any explanation.

Sunil Shetty is there for some odd 40 minutes throughout the movie. He gives a very ordinary performance and his dubbing by someone else is seriously bad. Sunil shot for the film in the early 1990s so this is one of his expressionless performances where he hams it up. The action scenes which are supposed to be a highlight in every Sunil Shetty film are completely nonsensical here. Shilpa Shirodkar is okay but her dubbing by someone else is seriously bad. Mukesh Khanna is the only actor with his voice and he does an average job. The rest are functional.

On the whole, Barood is a nonsensical film which is completely dysfunctional. The film has no proper editing which makes the typical movie seriously bad. The film was supposed to release in 1994 but did not release till 2012. This makes the entire concept in the film outdated even if the film was properly finished.

Delayed

[silvan-desouza · 1/10 · 27 February 2016]

After Khanjar, this is yet another delayed film of Suneil Shetty This film pairs him with Shilpa Shirodkar with whom we worked in many film in 1990s and then she quit bollywood in 2000. This film was perhaps started in 1990s and finally releases in 2012 with new faces added. The film was supported by Mukesh Khanna who is the only actor who dubbed in his own voice and also helped in completing the film. The film was perhaps 70% complete as unlike Khanjar we have Suneil,Shilpa Shirodkar.etc for half the film. The film has such a done to death story that I doubt it would work even in 90s. The film has Suneil Shetty play a kidnapper who alongwith some guys kidnap children, he is headed by Kiran Kumar Mukesh Khanna plays a cop who is after them. The film seems so dated that it bores, there are unintentional hilarious scenes too.The film seems to be rushed and completed hastily. Sunil Shetty is killed almost 40 mins before the climax and then the film shifts to 18 years later(perhaps shot recently) where all newcomers are added who form Barood Gang under the leadership of Mukesh Khanna. The villains Kiran Kumar.etc are replaced by newcomers too who claim they have done a plastic surgery!!!!!Hahahahah Direction is nothing great Music sounds outdated, as most of the songs were recorded in 90s and only few recently

Suneil Shetty looks straight out of Mohra(1994) and perhaps the film was started in 1990s when he was a raw actor, here too his act is nothing great, his dubbing however makes his original voice even of those days sound better, it's really awful Shilpa Shirodkar has a small role and is okay, but her dubbing gives away Kiran Kumar does decently but his dubbing is horrible Mukesh Khanna is the only actor who dubbed in his voice and does an okay job. The newcomers are all non actors.