Rocky Handsome movie review: John Abraham's action does all the talking
At its core, John Abraham's Rocky Handsome is a tale of emotion and action. And it is in the action part that this Nishikant Kamat-directed film shines.
Direction: Nishikant Kamat
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(3/5)A man who no one quite knows or bothers about. He runs a pawn shop in Goa, and is neighbour to a seven-year-old girl who, again, no one quite bothers about. She calls him 'Handsome' (John Abraham); he calls her Nayomi (Diya). Rocky Handsome, at its core, is the story of these two unusual friends.
Nayomi and Handsome share a strange friendship. They are joined by their love for fish, and are similar in their unwanted-ness. Nayomi has a cokehead of a mother Anna (Nathalia Kaur), who routinely gets into trouble because of her addiction.
Nayomi and Handsome find solace in each other's company until the latter walks away from her when she calls him her dad in front of the cops. Torn by guilt, when Handsome gets back to his house and ponders over it all, Nayomi and Anna are kidnapped in a drug-theft related case. And all hell breaks loose.
John Abraham at the Delhi press conference of Rocky Handsome
On the other side, the Goa Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) led by Dilip Sangodkar (Sharad Kelkar) is after a major drug-dealing, trafficking and organ-harvesting Mafioso called Maantu. Brothers Kevin (Nishikant Kamat) and Luke Ferreira (Teddy Maurya) are Maantu's Man Fridays, who do the dirty work. Basically, kidnapping, killing and keeping the channels aflow.
Handsome gets embroiled in the Ferreira brothers' nefarious schemes and lands in the net of the ANC. And it is then that they realise that this is Kabir Ahlawat, a man from nowhere, from the looks of it. They have the task of nabbing the gang; he has the task of getting Nayomi back. And in the process, they deliver one hell of a ride.
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