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Release DateJan 12, 2018
CastVineeth Kumar, Jimmy Shergill
DirectorAnurag Kashyap
ProducerAanand L. Rai
GenreDrama, Sports
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Oct 04, 2018 06:02 PM640 Views (via Android App)

MukkaBaaz ( 2018) Drama | action After Venture of Psycho-Thriller " Raman Raghav 2.0" Anurag Kashyap " Knight? of Bollywood" come up with " Revenge Saga love story and obviously it would be come like it? What a bakvas movie if you like the movie than OK but there is meaningless bakvas movie is it my point of view.


BAREILLY KA SABSE BADAA MULTI-TASKER !
Apr 14, 2018 12:42 PM946 Views

Auteur Anurag Kashyap's  "Mukkabaaz" could well have been titled "Bareilly's Biggest Multi-Tasker". Somewhat like but with far bigger challenges than the great Indian film heroes who have to not just act but also dance, sing and fight unlike their luckier Hollywood brethren who only have to do the first thing, The Boxer we see here doesn't just have to box at the top level but also accomplish the Herculean task of overcoming caste politics and wholesale skulduggery, do a day-time Railways job under the mercy of corrupt bosses who barely allow him to escape in the evenings for his boxing training, which again he has to curtail because home beckons but he is too tired to cuddle up to his wife whose hand he had to fight like a fiend to win. Forget a district-level medal, if any man or woman can wake up the next day to again go through the cycle of this insane circus, he or she deserves a million dollars in cash and a Lifetime Achievement Award.


'Mukkabaaz' was birthed through switching the babies in the creative cradle. Actor Vineet Kumar Singh, who had rendered superb thespian work for Kashyap multiple times before, came to the latter with a script along the lines of "Rocky"(1976). In India though, Rockies die a rocky death and Kashyap instead of erecting a mountain of fluff, told Vineet that they would make the film but jab it much closer to the bone, and that Vineet would have to train, blood risk guts and all, to become a real boxer. Vineet trained for a year, breaking his nose, his abdomen getting sculpted by rows of carved muscle and boxing close to how a pro would. The results show and and are shoved into the ring with bell-rings of reality. In real-life India, even state-level boxing tournaments are often deserted by the public, with useless politicians deciding who will represent the state and who will not. Talent is interred, chicanery is garlanded. But Kashyap's grinning sense of humour and flamboyance is on ripe display  - a Kerala minister in real life mistakenly heaped praises on America's great boxer Muhammad Ali for being Kerala's own high-achieveing son - this gaffe is borrowed by the movie but Kashyap evolves it become a joke upon a joke.


What makes the film a caste apart from the standard-punch sports drama is therefore its fierce commitment to reality and realpolitik. Other films will have the audience cheering for the rising underdog; this one does too but it also shows the boxing venue for a state-level competition being appropriated for a marriage function already underway while the newly arrived officials and boxers look on stunned. That's just the start of the dark circus. This film will "lose" in order to win the larger victory, but try selling these true-bones in commercial India.


Shravan Singh(Vineet Kumar Singh) is a top boxer in the town of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. This young man has enough talent and determination to make it to the national level but the local boss Bhagwan Das Mishra(Jimmy Shergill) will now allow this to happen. Mishra is an ex-boxer who belongs to the elite Brahmin caste, with political clout and riches to boot. He's also a vicious thug with a murderous streak, and hates Shravan largely because the latter does not care for him, with the other significant downer being that Shravan does not belong to a high caste. To make matters worse for Shravan, he is determined to woo the good-looking but mute Sunaina(Zoya Hussain) who is Mishra's niece. Both men will not back down come what may and so starts a dangerous war, made more even by heartening associates. Shravan would have been murdered quite early, but Mishra loves to see him live and suffer.


After Black Friday, Dev D, Gangs of Wassepur and  Ugly, this is the fifth remarkable film that Kashyap has directed, in addition to the terrific short'Murabba', bearing in mind that he was the writer for three great films - Kaun, Satya and Shool - before his directorial career. If he continues at this rate in the next five years, he will be at the same zenith of Indian cinema as Satyajit Ray and Ram Gopal Varma are. Amongst Kashyap's various fortes has been the gift to construct bravura scenes of filmic story-telling. I lost count of the number of powerful scenes in'Mukkabaaz'. Shravan's father taunts for him for dropping out of school and being unemployed, in return for which Shravan's backlash is a ferociously full-blooded tirade. A more aggressive father would rained slaps upon the son, but here Shravan's undeniable hook of reality makes the father silently sustain most of the blazing blows. It is the ethical heart of the film magnificently established early.


Another powerhouse sequence is when Mishra summons Shravan's new coach Sanjay Kumar(Ravi Kishan, in a superbly controlled act) for a dressing down. India's glorious caste system had decided that Sanjay Kumar is a lower-caste untouchable while Mishra is the heaven-born and this scene illustrates who actually is the man who should be treated like dirt. Verbal undercuts and retaliations are calmly expertly exchanged till the emotional temperature dangerously escalates, exquistely enhanced by the palpitating underline of Prashant Pillai's score.


Want that same dramatic power with lyricism and break-dance? Kashyap rocks Benares's riverside stony Ghats with "Paintra" - a video song that is a virtuosic fusion of the coach's scriptural counsel, a teenager's striking break-dance and Shravan's formal training. Harsh mogrel music is elevated by striking beats and pulsing trumpets, and woven into the narrative like an urchin-Guru, the callisthenics oscillating between the aesthetic and the physical.


Mukkabaaz's music is a remixed reprise from the rural-cheeky brand pioneered by Kashyap's backing, harking to his "Gangs of Wasseypur". Rachita Arora is recruited this time to deploy the folksy-chic tunes and she does a good job, but Kashyap errs in allowing the singing to often become loud and overboiled while not guiding his composer to engineer truly enjoyable music. To be sure, he banks upon this overtly melodramatic device to make the film more saleable to his country's audience but the box office results have shown that the audience exclusively wants a star, a happy ending  and will accept no other commercial whoring around. "Mushkil Hai" is the film's first song and its swinging rhythms and lashing beats are undoubtedly a success, as it shows Shravan dancing with the zest of a loon in a marriage celebration while a decked-up Sunaina's face brilliantly lights up on seeing her man in heat. But the other songs are uninspired, their strong local flavour lacking special melody. Background score composer Prashant Pillai, as hinted earlier, delivers some dazzling results, being able to evoke radiant emotion with the economy of a sitar, while subtly pumping up other scenes with frisson-packed rhythms. But even he is shortchanged by Kashyap's periodic insistence on overwrought "music". On a slightly different note, when Shravan lets loose a rain of punches late in the story, he chants "Jai Mata Di" which means'Hail The Almighty Mother'. It comes off as terribly melodramatic, even though it is honestly meant to connote revenge taken for the entire motherland.


But what consistently redeems the film is the relentless focus on imaginative story-telling, and the running kicks with which it blasts apart casteism and corruption. Kashyap himself points out that his films have a significantly bigger scene count than other Hindi films, and Mukkabaaz ploughs through these thickets of highs and lows - Shravan's initial exile, his hidden training, an eventual big victory, another high in personal life, then the "plateaus" with his tight-rope walk on three tracks, then the crash and then again the resurgence - while making the songs part of the narrative rather than time-consuming extras. It is a world governed by bad men, but the script steadily discloses how good men still exist at various levels. The police inspector is a deceptively good example(Abhay Joshi in an act that that is as subtly effective as it is seemingly bland - cf. Tigmanshu Dhulia in'Gangs of Wasseypur').


This may be a "boxing film" but some of the greatest friction and desperation comes from his tortured listless days at his railways job. Shravan rolls with the third-class punches until he is  kick-upgraded to to the executive cabin where he has an electrifying show-down with his crooked superior. The boxing itself is perhaps the reason why not one, not two but four cinematographers cook the broth(some for the dramatic coverage, others for recording the boxing). There are no dishonestly quick cuts of scene to hide the action. As Vineet has trained well to be a real-boxer, he fights with intense confidence and the camera records this true grit with clean focus. The shot-taking remains from a point outside the ring, with no close-ups, but it does not compromise the power of the fight. Shravan wins most matches without great suffering, and we think the real killer fight is going to come in the semi-finals and finals, and so we wait.


The director's close associate, editor Aarti Bajaj, is on board here but her editing dazzle is not(the editing of the film trailer is fantastic, though).  I noted a needless inclusion of some useless transition shots at a mid-way stage of the fim that reflected poorly on the editing, but then realized that the quality of splicing is actually decent for the amount of material covered, with the zenith being reached when Shravan hectically tries to balance working, boxing, and conjugal life. That shot quickly circles back to catch him on yet another day on his scooter at the traffic lights, gazing frustrated at the green signal to come on - the daily grind thus tellingly shown.


Vineet Kumar Singh acts better than Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar, and as well as Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. But as he prefers to steer away from audience-pleasing films, is not classically handsome and does not have a star father, his Indian commercial future is uncertain. Nevermind that his role does not have introspective shades here - he is given a wide selection of explosive scenes and he goes at them like scud missiles serially firing. The character of Bhagwan Das Mishra as the villain is deliberately low-key in demeanour and yet Jimmy Shergill makes him exude seething menace, taken to a coldly venomous acme in his scene with the coach where his blood-stained injured eyes are slickly filmed over by scarlet shades.


Zoya Hussain's film debut shows her in sprightly, endearing light. Kashyap's decision to make her character mute is a commercially dangerous one, which he felt would mirror "the lack of voice in the women of the region"(a point which will fall on deaf ears of most of his audience). This however makes Sunaina's romance with Shravan unique in Indian film history, what with the number of messages they exchange on their smartphones popping up separately on the screen in Hindi lettering - a bold choice as not many outside the Hindi-speaking Northern states can read Hindi fast enough, with no English subtitles provided either. One can hear Kashyap declaring - "But that's our national language, can't you read it?!" The film's sudden deceleration and cessation intially seems a shocking downer in what was to be a thrilling ascension but not for nothing has Kashyap cut his teeth on the great lacerating bricks of cinema verite. For him verity is paramount, more than money-making shibboleths are, and if you have to understand why a billion-strong country like India gives such profoundly shameless performance in sport, you have to appreciate why the finale ends the way it ends.


Top reviewer Bhardwaj Rangan rightly christened Mukkabaaz as "masala-fied" Kashyap. But a director like the latter, however much masala he throws in, ends up with a smackingly real-life flavour blend which Indian film audiences in general lack the taste to appreciate. Mukkabaaz seems to have grossed a total of Rs.10 crore(approx US$ 2 million) while Aamir Khan's'Dangal'(2016), a film which takes off from wrestling, has grossed Rs. 2122 crore(that's not a typo). Kashyap may again tell naive outsiders that working with stars will makes his scripts "safe" and spineless but I find it heart-breaking that the country's best director should repeatedly fail at the box office like this. The reality is inescapable - it will still be some more decades before the majority Indian film audience shrug off their slavish devotion to star vehicles.  I continue to be an advocate of the alternating formula where a gifted director should brilliantly manoeuver between making one film with a star and then making the next more liberated one without the interference of a star. This is admittedly easier said that done, but no other way way seems more feasible.


The film's last frame informs us(of interest to non-Indians mainly because Indians already know this and are preparing to make a run towards the next'Dangal' while maintaining as far a distance as possible from this and the next'Mukkabaaz') that in the 2016 Rio Olympics India earned a grand total of two medals. In the competitive world of cinema however, people like me can take heart that Anurag Kashyap should have been the winner of multiple international gold medals for a selection of his previous films though Venice, Berlin and Cannes did not have the caliber to honour him so. As for'Mukkabaaz', it probably does not need a medal, because it is shrouded in so many golden wreaths.


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jatinyadavluckyMouthShut Verified Member
Rewari (Haryana) India
Boring and confusing movie
Feb 09, 2018 11:48 AM1262 Views (via Android App)

Mukkabaz movie as the name suggests is based on Boxing. Jimmy Shergill plays the role of Bhagwan das Mishra who prepares boxers and he holds a powerful position in UP state boxing federation. He is a dictator kind of person who force his terms on his students. Vineet Kumar is the most promising boxer in his academy and he loves Bhagwan das mishra's dumb niece zoya and he stands against him for his love. But Bhagwan das decides to ruin his career and does everything to ruin his career. Fighting against all odds the hero continues his passion for boxing and at last pays the price for his love for zoya and boxing. Performances of actors are okay but not exceptional. Story and dialogues are poor. Direction is average. Music is also not upto the mark except the song Priye. So this movie in my opinion is a waste of time as well as money.


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makdumMouthShut Verified Member
Kumarkunta Street Kadapa (Ap) India
Mukkabaaz movie not bad
Feb 08, 2018 09:35 PM1148 Views

Mukkabaaz movie: I saw a trailer on youtube but not a movie it's like some real story and the director Anurag Kashyap


create a story its based on Indian sports and made a love story for entitlement and another thing is I am first to see in Bollywood industry the two actors Vineet and Zoya they do role hero and heroine I don't no that there role any other shows. but in this movie, they got more popularity in this two the movie is simply and fantastically. another thing is the created based on Indian nature more youngsters like sports on cricket boxing kulfu etc. on thus whey I am telling based on my knowledge its got grate rating.


Rahul_arya51MouthShut Verified Member
Lucknow India
Awesome movie
Feb 08, 2018 06:24 PM1188 Views (via Android App)

Watch this movie only for Vineet singh, if nothing else.such raw perfomance ! You can clearly see that he is an dedicated artist and truly stands out in the movie.anurag kashyap is best with the small canvas and stars which less stardom.the boxing fight sequels were average but so much happens at the same time that we dont bother for those scenes.zoya hussain was fine with disablily.The other charecters were brilliant like Ravi kishan had a short role but was sparkling.shreedhar dubey as vineet's freind was ok.overall you will be amazed to see perfomance of each character.Watch if you are fan of jimmi shergil like me.


SumanjMouthShut Verified Member
Siliguri India
Good movie
Feb 07, 2018 12:35 PM1029 Views (via Mobile)

Finally I watched this movie . My favorite director is back I s another action package filck. And action director who also work for rocky handsome. Now mukkaamaz also good. I love every shravan's attitude. Performance is good, acting is also good . I love this movie.


kanaujiasavitriMouthShut Verified Member
Lucknow India
All about mukkabaaz...
Feb 05, 2018 11:01 PM1058 Views

Mukkabaaz is film that is about' boxer michal tyson' who was famous for his boxing, or I can say this is a biopic of a'boxer tyson'. that is shown in the movie very well.but casting is weal little bit.


film starts with' vineet kumar singh' who lives in uttar pradesh where our societies think that there is no future in''sports' so' shravan's( vineet kumar singh) father push shravan to take his carrier towards government sector but his passion is to bacome a boxer like his idol " micael tyson " . other side he is in love also. besides all this problems how he achieve his goals with his passion hardwork that is shown in the film. apart from all these things there is great performances by jimmy shergil as a coach and ravi kishan all are famous for doing' desi performances'. heroine's acting is not so good.


film is directed by anurag kashyap known for giving good films.


music is not up to the mark only one song is good.


cinematography is below average there are lots of scene of uttar pradesh's some cities.


Mukkabaaz
Feb 05, 2018 09:12 PM1419 Views (via Android App)

Mukkacaaz is directed by anurag kashyap and the most cast in movie vineet sing, jimmy shergill, zoya hussain.slow motion fist fight never looked intriguing.tere is pain tere is lust and tere is challenge.thks movie leve is good but most seen are great.jimmy shergill roll is fantabulish.and he is expriance actor in punjabi movie.his punjabi movie osm and great acting.vineet sing is also good actor and his acting hopefull great.and acteress zoya hussain is a great acteress and her acting is good.thanks for watching mukkabaaz movie.


Shubhampandey58MouthShut Verified Member
New Delhi India
Good movie
Feb 04, 2018 08:52 PM1380 Views (via Android App)

This is very interesting movie based on the lower cast boxer life.The boxer name is Shravan,


Plot:


Movie start with the talking of two boxers of their life and they talking about what they doing in future they go to their coach house and they do their personal work like chopping, massage etc and Shravan says that he is not a servant he is a Student so he didn't do this and after the followers of coach beat the Shravan and they go for another coach and make a good boxer


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Song's are so funny and interesting and very good the lyrics are well written and music is great.


Cinematography:


The scene are based on real life and see what is happening in this days with the boxer and lower cast people and the cinematography is very good and like the real life.


Verdict:


Awesome movie overall the movie is well written , well acted and well organised and very good family movie to what happening with lower cast boxer.


Overall the movie is very good.


Asifbeg007MouthShut Verified Member
Contai India
Average Mukka
Feb 03, 2018 03:32 PM1015 Views (via Android App)

Mukkabaaz based on a very typical love story.


But the plot is very simple and the performance of the lead actor is quite good. This movie have some fantastic diloughs. A very simple story is represent by the director anurag kassap.


The overall performance of this movie is quite good.


Some songs include in this film but I don't like any of the songs.


The cinematography of this film is average. If you are a love story movie fan then you sould watch it once.


I give it only three stars because of its simplicity and dailoughs.


Cownpore Club 33 Cantt India
Mukkabaaz ??
Feb 02, 2018 06:08 PM1151 Views (via Android App)

Mukkabaaz is really a fabulous love story , and it's full of drama , watching this movie is very great experience for me , this movie also show you to a way to follow your dreams , my whole family laugh while watching it so it's a family type movie , my favourite song from the movie is paytra , really motivational toward your dream and this movie also implies that to follow your dream till the ends , you can find it little bit dramatic and tge sence of comedy is also good so I would like to rate it a 4.5 starts


hpi31tbMouthShut Verified Member
Bareilly India
A fantastic movie
Feb 01, 2018 02:19 PM810 Views (via Android App)

Mukkabaaz is a very good movie. It shoot in bareilly city and Vanaras city in up. A histroy of a boxer. A silent movie because it's actress is not talk. Jimmy a wonderful actor. Mukkbaaz film many sences in bareilly. Mukkabaaz one time watch movie. In tgis movie some drama and action. This movie is a fantastic movie. Tgis film is package is low but it on box lffoice earn more money. Anurag sir ever make a good film. This movie is directed by the anurag kashyap. Mukkabaaz movie is depend on a boxer life. This movie is family movie. I love it. A fully enjoyment film


hardikdeoraMouthShut Verified Member
Jodhpur India
One time watch movie
Feb 01, 2018 01:07 PM975 Views (via Android App)

Mukkabaaz one of the nicest movie in this year.mukkabaaz film completely based on real story and real experience based movie. it's a story of a boxer and his love story. Film is full of drama but little bit romance or love jealouse in some scenes. Songs of this movie is average and one song is too good for youth. A man who is fight for his love and compit his bad coach who is a don of the area. The climax of movie is not good according to movie.


After all movie is inspired youth through lot of messages and its a one time watch movie.


VD_10MouthShut Verified Member
Bhopal India
Worth Watching
Jan 31, 2018 03:12 PM1381 Views (via iOS App)

This is an underrated movie that people must watch. Not promoted much but is power packed with dialogues and story.


Jimmy Shergil marvellously performing a typical UP politician and Vineet Singh as the lead actor as the boxer Shravan Singh gave a powerful performance which can be easily seen in the movie during his training for boxing and how good he is in this.


The story revolve around how a talent can be suppressed by a powerful leader but at the end its the talent that can’t hide for a long time. Revolving around how the boxer manages his personal life being exploited by the politician and his passion of boxing.


Amazing dialouges and superbly directed with keeping the audience entraped in the story.


Music was ok not that much used in the movie.


Overall its a value for money to watch.


Mumbai India
MukkaBaaz
Jan 27, 2018 09:32 PM825 Views (via Android App)

Mukkabaaz, awesome fantastic movie, this is a serious story, which is again by Anuraag Kashyap a serious story. This is about a life of a boxer facing problems, pressure n all. Finally loosing, great movie, great meaning full songs and dialogue n all. Action of actors and actresses are outstanding. Fantastic movie must watch movie!


Marvelous
Jan 27, 2018 07:28 PM1001 Views (via Android App)

All you people who like good cinema, Mukkabaaz is a good watch, this is not movie, this is actually an experience to which we all can relate to at some point of time or may have read or heard about. This movie keep you on the ground, no mega sets, grand dance numbers, senseless action sequences, unrealastic romance. The movie has content, amazing actors and directions is marvelous, the way it should be by Mr. Anurag Kashyap but there are no gaalis yes you read it. Vineet is superb, zoya is great and gorgeous, Mr. Ravikishan is backbone but the player for me is jimny shergil, he is a character who brings the intensity in the movie. This is one of the best movies in long time, it's fun will make you fill good, bad, laugh and will surely entertain, most importantly this movie makes you think! Hats of to the Mukkabaaz Team.


Realistic punch mukkabaz
Jan 27, 2018 06:58 PM1469 Views

Hello everyone I just saw mukkabaz it is a wonderful movie this movie is so realistic and every frame is just mindblowing the cast of the movie the hero of the movie vineetkumar singh he is just brilliant what a actor he is incredible and that girl zoya the new comer steals the show every character in the movie gave very natural perfomances music wise the bgm was very good and the songs especially paintra was very good song and cinematography of the movie was really very good no doubt this is arurag kashyaps best till now go for it.


Watch for acting
Jan 27, 2018 01:21 AM818 Views (via Android App)

I love it, I love scenes between lead and his father.


I truly admire performance of Bhagwan das misra.he nailed it man.


May be there could be some differences in openion by people of different regions but Anurag Kashyap is too good with taking ground reallty.


Overall movie is great experience


bishalroy53MouthShut Verified Member
Nowgong, Assam, India India
A good one time watch movie.
Jan 25, 2018 10:17 PM1204 Views (via Android App)

The movie is based on a true story of a boxer who falls in love with the niece of the main villain who doesnot allow the boxer to participate in national rounds or even in district level in boxing tournaments. The villain oppose the person to fight in tournaments he even opposes the marraige of the boxer. He does various sort of activities in order to stop the boxer from progressing.


Overall, the movie is great to watch as it is based on a true story one cannot expect more fun out of it. This is good to watch with family as the movie might make you cry at certain instances. I would recommend this movie to all boxing lovers as the moves are nice and it is a great movie to watch with family too.


Very good
Jan 25, 2018 04:33 PM743 Views (via Android App)

This is very good movie I recomend all of those who play game like boxing this movie is all about you I know you have plans for you to see you to see the movie mukkabaaz when you see the movie you also like the movie mukkabaaz this is very motivational movie for all kinds of sports man so you will go to the nearest cinemas and enjoy the movie mukkabaaz this movie contains drama romance fight suspens and many more I prays god that make the journey beautiful excitement and adventures so good luck


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