Akram Khan is a master of the typically hackneyed vengeance pot boiler. His movies are truly the lowest common denominator designed to appeal to the most indiscriminating front bencher. Once in a while his films have hit the jackpot Box Office wise therefore sustaining a career of remarkable ordinariness.

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This film is yet more of the same spicy masala offered by Khan with the requisite saucy dance numbers thrown in for a bit of extra hot chilli. Akram Khan is trigger happy with the zoom lens in finest sleazy Lollywood tradition and his lens appears to linger endlessly on the female bum, another familiar local trait. Anyway this film starts off with one typically bellicose, blimpish, moustachioed moron explaining to his mystified wife about how his best friend is just the cat's whiskers when it comes to loyalty. The wife's intuition warns her otherwise, and so it proves when the so called mate turns on his "friend" sending him packing off to jail for a crime he didn't commit. Worse still he goes to his mate's house and rapes his wife just to prove a point. Then there is the usual murder and mayhem with young child witnessing the brutal murder of his father and swearing revenge…being led away to prison where he grows up five minutes later as a young , virile and very, very angry Sultan Rahi.

Meanwhile the big nasty villain has also reared his two sons who he has trained to become the biggest "Badmashes" in town, but he has been clever enough to groom one as a straightforward goon while the other son has been camouflaged as a fully trained lawyer. Meanwhile Sultan Rahi arrives back from jail to seek and destroy the "peo da qatils" (fathers murderers) and then we have basically two hours of the usual macho posturing, schizophrenic fight scenes punctuated by the occasional extra hot club dance. In fact one of the all time great club dances makes an appearance in this film as it did in another we have previously reviewed. The fabulously cheap dance to the song Kadh Le Kadh Le makes an appearance in this film though it has also been spliced in to Pindi Wal. From memory, the song actually belongs to Aaj da Badmaash but it is fairly common for people to steal songs and scenes from one film and splice them into another film……..the most popular splicing material being porn!

Aaj Da Badmarsh is film making at its most stripped down and basic and crude. There isn't the slightest semblance of polish to proceedings and in keeping with the Rahi style of Punjabi films, there is an awful lot of shouting going on. The comic book violence that one associates with the genre is there in plentiful supply as is the typically zany background score dominated with that fabulously cheesy organ that is such the trademark of Lollywood scores from the 70's and 80's. Sultan Rahi bellows aggressively and looks very cross and packs a mighty wallop. He also performs a rare song and dance scene but generally speaking the film is a bit of a shamble and the entire story is set into position within the first 15 minutes - which means that the rest of the two hours and 30 minutes is devoted to the tediously predictable unfolding of the revenge scenario!

Najma doesn't have much to do other than wiggle her bum, something she does with remarkable talent. Aasia has even less to do other than the occasional song here or there. Yet, it has to be said that any film containing a club dance as hot as Kadh le and another where three beauties are crooning (Pa pa pa pa pa kariya pyar wey) in school girl frocks while two men in their underwear pretend to be African tribals can't be all bad. Alas this one has some serious deficiencies and is just too run of the mill and horribly predictable with its twisted moral that in order to defeat hoodlums, one has to become a kingpin hoodlum oneself. Yet having said that, would we have our Lollywood Punjabi films any other way? Doubtful.