Banner: Sohail Khan Production
Producer & Director: Sohail Khan
Star Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz Khan, Asif Basra, Amy Jackson, Niketan Dheer, Seema Biswas, Jas Arora & Jackie Shroff
Music: Sajid Ali – Wajid Ali
There have been films galore on sports. Perhaps the audience has had too many films based on cricket. So director Sohail Khan’s, who needs no special introduction,
latest offering Freaky Ali based on the game of golf, basically known as a rich man’s game, comes as a whiff of fresh air.
The scripted scenario of Freaky Ali kick starts with Ali (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) being brought up in the by lanes of Mumbai. He is an adopted orphan who tries to make his living by doing odd jobs like selling male undergarments. When his engagement breaks because of his image as a salesman and he sees tears in the eyes of the one woman he loves the most, his mother (Seema Biswas), Ali decides to turn rich by hook or by crook. He joins hands with his bestie Maqsood (Arbaaz Khan), a small-time gangster working under Sohail Khan aka Danger Bhai (Niketan Dheer) to extort money. Besides this, Ali is passionate about just one sport, cricket and even wins the challenge of scoring sixes at every ball during a gully-cricket match. During one of his extortion assignments, he decides to take up a golfing challenge and ends up victorious and he is spotted by Kishan Lal (Asif Basra), his neighbour & family well-wisher who believes that Ali’s talent can create wonders in the world of golf. As his destiny takes him towards a new way of life, with new goals & dreams. Ali then comes across new friends & love, Megha (Amy Jackson), he also makes new enemies like Vikram Rathod (Jas Arora). What follows is a series of matches where Ali has to prove his worth to his coach Kishan Lal while dealing with the success-obsessed Vikram Rathod and a man with selfish motives, Danger Bhai, who would go to any lengths to ensure the defeat of Ali at the tournament, even if it means turning his loved ones against him.
Sohail Khan has proved his directorial metle time & again by giving us some of the best & daringly different movies and once again he has brought to light the game of golf in his latest sports adventure movie namely Freaky Ali and he deserves full credit for that. But even Freaky. Ali has all the plus and minus points. The scripting work of Raaj Shandiliya & Sohail Khan is the main stay of Freaky Ali.
Performance wise Freaky Ali is an out & out Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s film and he has delivered a par excellence act, that too 1st time in a full length comical avatar and for which his comic timing in tandem with Arbaaz Khan is seen to be believed. Arbaaz Khan is perfect. Amy Jackson is impressive. Senior actors like Seema Biswas & Jackie Shroff in a cameo are good. While actors like Niketan Dheer, Jas Arora & Asif Misra deserve a special mention for their overall perfection in their justified act.
Tail Piece: Freaky Ali is roller coaster ride of fun & entertainment. In fact Freaky Ali is, a not to be missed, interesting sports adventure film.
