IslandGuru Who payed the critics

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Peter Young Back in those days, Salman Khan was a highly popular star, and to his credit he had hardly been part of those big-budget films made by Chopra, Ghai and the likes. Khan is a good entertainer, and a great strength of his is that he never seemed to consider himself a particularly good actor, neither did he really pretend to take the acting part of acting too close to heart. It was all about a good presence and a likably honest persona. In this film he actually does seem to try to show the opposite, but sadly he never manages to turn it into something particularly special since the film is not very good in the first place. Khan apparently just doesn't have the right flair for choosing the right movies. This is the same age old story of pride and honour, love and sacrifice, principles and values, rape and revenge, and they hardly ever ring true. They could have, had they been tackled by a more competent and imaginative writer or director. But the result is a stale, highly outdated film which doesn't work in spite of Khan's presence. The story lacks any possible depth and conviction. Then we have the usual heroine, played by Shilpa Shetty, whose appearance is basically restricted to the lavish songs. Speaking of songs, there's a nice number called "Hum Tumko Nigahon Mein". The action scenes are not that bad, relatively speaking, but they are typically exaggerated and all stretched out, just like the film itself.

silvan-desouza After Salman's success of TERE NAAM(2003) Plenty of his films released like GARV which released in 2004, The film worked only because of Salman's presence The film is otherwise a heckeyened outdated film, In that year suddenly cop films were in fashion and thousands of cop films released like KHAKEE(the best), AAN, Police Force.etc and it got irritating Watching GARV it looks like watching an 80s film with actors speaking dialogues(shouting) like there are doing a Mahabharat act. The film starts well but there's nothing that you haven't seen before, the first half is fast paced, only to be punctuated with songs and a forced romance. There are clichéd villains, loud politicians, maa and behen and almost everything we thought disappeared from Hindi films.Direction by Puneet Issar is not great Music is okaySalman Khan has thousands of hairstyles in the film, he does a restrained job and is decent at many places though monotonous at some Also his X marking part looks odd, Arbaaz Khan is decent in his role Shilpa Shetty has a blink and miss role, Farida Jalal is typecast, Akanshka who is the producer's relative annoys with her loud acting and shouting, Amrish Puri is decent, Anupam Kher excels, Govind Namdeo hams, Mukesh Rishi is as usual, Anant Jog, Shivaji Satham are as usual

MovieInspector Salman Khan shines in these kinds of roles; his performance is good as expected. Amrish Puri also did well in the movie along with Arbaaz Khan and Shilpa Shetty. Mukesh rishi was also OK. Others such as Farida Jalal and Anupam Kher were half-decent too. There's only one good song in the movie: 'soniye to soni'. The story is good and so too are the dialogues, most of which are delivered by Salman Khan. What is best about the movie is the action. A lot of people will say 'ouch' quite a lot throughout the movie and/or turn their head the other way. It is, after all, quite gruesome.Verdict:you must watch it if you're not squeamish. Since i'm not squeamish, I give it 8/10

Biswajit Tripathy Salman plays Arjun Ranawat, Inspector is a terror to the underworld. The underworld has tried time and again to get rid of him, but has failed.Amrish Puri plays a Sr. Inspector samar Singh who is a very honest. When Samar comes to know that Kashinath Trivedi has won the election, he puts his resignation. The reason being Kashinath Trivedi is a corrupt politician and has got underworld connection too.Zafar Supari played by Mukesh Rishi, the self-declared king of underworld is delighted too as he is happy that he can reign again. Though Samar Singh resigns from his job, two honest police officers Arjun Ranawat and Hyder Ali (Arbaaz Khan) are the thorns in their path. They won't allow Kashinath Trivedi and Zafar Supari sit in peace. They try the usual method of divide and rule among them in which Hyder Ali is killed. The blame is put on Arjun Ranawat who is suspended from his duty. Trial continues against him in connection with Hyder's murder as well as his alleged affair with his sister too played by a small time actress Akshanksha. How Salman defends his case and proves his innocence is the story of the movie. He also has to take revenge of Hyder Ali'e murder.Anupam Kher plays the role of Tyagi, a lawyer who defends cases against Zafar Supari and Kashinath Trivedi. All the characters are good and justified their role. Directed by Puneet Issar, for a change Salman has acted very well.