‘Tevar’, a colloquial Hindi term, translates to style and a person’s signature attitude. Arjun Kapoor’s action flick has loads of ‘tevar’, but flounders on narrative and exhausts you with its length and deafening background score. Yet, it entertains.
Set in the labyrinthine by lanes of Agra & Mathura, ‘Tevar’ soaks in local flavor of warm Indian savouries, the caressing, winter sun of western Uttar Pradesh, and colloquial one-liners. It’s Pintu’s story, a local ‘Kabaddi’ star. As the song in the film states, Arjun Kapoor as Pintu, AKA Ghanshyam, is a local ‘superman’, who bashes up eve teasers in a ratio of 1 to 15. So he mouths catchy lines, then flexes his arms and breaks everything (A bit like Salman Khan, who he serenades as a fan). Accidentally, one fine day, he ends up rescuing a damsel in distress (Sonakshi Sinha as Radhika) who is being eyed amorously by a local political goon (bahuballi), played masterfully by Manoj Bajpai. The ‘bahuballi’ is not your typical villain; he too, has fallen head over heels, and is now set on blood soaked conquest of his maiden. Having accidentally taken on the most powerful local goon with political backing, Pintu swears to go the whole hog in ensuring Radhika leaves for the safe shores of the USA. Thus begin many chaotic, chase sequences, a rather unconvincing hide out location and the blossoming of an understated love.
