Film

Baaghi

Name: Baaghi
Genre: Action, Thriller, Romance, Adventure
Released: 2016
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor, Sunil Grover, Sudheer Babu, Saurav Chakrabarti

Martial arts action

A kinetic action-romance about a hot-headed fighter who must rescue his lost love from a martial arts champion. Tiger Shroff's explosive physicality anchors this globe-trotting thriller, which trades plot coherence for eye-catching set pieces and romantic melodrama. Built for audiences who want spectacle, charm, and a hero who solves problems with his body.

TMDb rating

3.2

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you want a loud, kinetic Bollywood action romance where the fight choreography does the storytelling and a love story rides along on a motorbike, with a hero who fights first and thinks later.

Skip it if you find Hindi-language masala films exhausting, since it runs over two hours and piles on melodrama, sudden shifts of tone and a lot of shouting between its bruising set pieces.

What it asks of you: Settle in for about 134 minutes of mostly brisk momentum, with the emotional beats hammered home rather than quietly earned, and a willingness to accept big, unsubtle feeling as the default register.

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