The other 3 cops who are his gang members are also pretty good. Anurag Kashyap as the corrupt cop at the center of the robbery is super. She does ok though I would have liked to know what she was thinking once in a while which her stony expression doesn't allow. Sonakshi punches and kicks her way through the movie with abandon and a set expression on her face. It just made me want to kick him like Akira. Murugadoss thought it probably a masterstroke of humour. The worst is where they show the Psychiatrist who has certified Akira as ill, at home in his undies, drinking beer and watching Tom and Jerry. All this is meant to be funny but just shows you a Director stuck in the Middle Ages. The mental asylum is full of people who talk to dolls and think green is red. The college bully is a girl with short hair, pierced lip and wears spaghetti tops. The movie is also full of old fashioned cliches that grate. What about if she had started a martial arts institute to teach self-defense? That was her main skill and the one that saved her ultimately but that is now pushed aside completely. She chooses to become a teacher tteaching Kabir dohas. If the story had made use of her strength to fight against some injustice, it would have given the character and it's fight more conviction. Her defining experience of helping an acid victim in her childhood has made her strong. Two, Akira has no real motive to fight except to survive. One, it uses very weak links to move the story forward. The movie ends on a very tame and trite note that tells you the Director's heart was not in the woman empowerment angle in the first place. There is also another powerful female character - a police inspector who tries to help her. She is aided by a clever mentally deranged person from the metal hospital where she is kept sedated. They get on her case and she has to try and escape from them multiple times. Akira gets caught for no fault of hers in a scam run by 4 policemen. After this the movie starts going into self-annihilation mode. She moves to Mumbai and takes on the college bullies. She throws acid on another eve teaser in self- defense and gets sent to a Remand home for the act. A young Akira identifies a man who throws acid on a woman and then her father encourages her to learn martial arts.

The story starts of promisingly enough (I don't know how many times I have written that sentence!).

Its idea of showing woman power rests entirely on the heroine Akira bashing up everyone in sight when she is in trouble and not much beside.

Unfortunately, it doesn't really come through on that promise. Or atleast that's the impression I got from the opening scenes. Review Akira & earn 20 DM Points.* Review SubmitĪkira tries to be a brave movie about strong women and empowerment etc.

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