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Shivaay Film Review: Action Packed Film, Stunning Music, Hats off to Ajay Devgn’s Vision

Director: Ajay Devgn

Star – Cast: Ajay Devgn, Erika Kaar, Sayyesha, Abigail Eames, Saurabh Shukla, Girish Karnad

Ratings: 2/5 stars

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Shivaay (Ajay Devgn) spends time guiding tourists on high-altitude treks when not proving his mountaineering skills atop snow-clad Himalayan peaks. Some college students join Shivaay for a mountaineering mission. Olga (Erika Kaar), a Bulgarian studying at the Delhi University, is one of them. There is a spontaneous spark between Olga and Shivaay. They fall in love before the sun sets. Olga speaks flawless Hindi, Shivaay speaks some English. The morning after Shivaay impresses Olga with his tattoos, the group is on the trek. They see an avalanche coming their way. Everyone crosses over to the opposite peak. While trying to save an extraordinarily scared person, Shivaay and Olga are unable to make it before the avalanche hits them.

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So Shivaay and Olga jump into a nearby tent and the avalanche tosses it off into the abyss in between the two peaks. The tent is seen hanging between the peaks and the people inside realize that they have fallen in love, and go on to consummate their relationship. Kissing, making love, hanging in the air. Olga has to go back to Bulgaria after her fling with Shivaay. Right before leaving for her country, Olga finds out that she is pregnant. She doesn’t want to have the child, but Shivaay wants his half family. So Olga gives birth to a daughter. Olga goes back to Bulgaria and Shivaay climbs mountain peaks with his daughter Gaura (Abigail). Gaura discovers that her mother is alive and in Bulgaria, as opposed to Shivaay’s story that she is dead.

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Gaura throws a tantrum and tickets to Bulgaria follow. Shivaay and Gaura reach the Indian Embassy in Bulgaria to look for Olga. The new country turns out to be more mysterious than what the father-daughter duo expected. And they might not be able to untangle the web of lies and deceit coming their way.They runs into Anushka (Sayyesha) there, who, under the orders of her boss (Saurabh Shukla), decides to overturn mountains and find Olga. The rest of the story involves Ajay Devgn saving the children of Bulgaria from child trafficking, finding a sex worker’s lost father, fending off numerous goons single-handedly, being dragged through half of the country with barely a scratch on his jeans and so on.

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Ajay Devgn acts well, tries to emote through his eyes. Erika, Sayyesha, Abigail all is fine in their characters. The one aspect Shivaay wins in is the locations and the way they have been captured on camera. Both the Himalayas and Bulgaria are breathtaking; the scale of the film is mesmerizing as is the action and chase sequences. But good photography and stunts can do only so much to a badly-written film. Ajay Devgn escalates the excitement with a well-choreographed opening action sequence that sees him doing bungee-jumping, gliding and parachuting. The rising crescendo in the background makes him appear flamboyant, tough, skilled and intimidating.When you think it’s about to touch a logical end, another twist comes into sight. It keeps dragging in search of an end. Shivaay is must watch Film for all the action lovers and Ajay Devgn Fans.