Scenes linger on forever, nullifying their own significance.

Ajay, who is perhaps in every frame of the film doesn’t know where to stop as a director. However, the film has its issues, biggest being its run-time (3 hours) and thus, poor editing.

An extended car-chase sequence in particular is outstanding. Soon high-octane, gravity and death-defying action sequences take centre stage, which are on par with the Hollywood films.

The abduction of his daughter turns our chillum-smoking cool trekker into an angry killer, who vows to bust the flesh trade racket in Bulgaria. Rescuing her from the masked child-traffickers becomes his only reason for survival.

But their plan goes for a toss when the little girl gets kidnapped in the foreign land. Shivaay (Ajay Devgn), a fearless Himalayan mountaineer covered in Lord Shiva tattoos, heads to Bulgaria to fulfill his nine-year-old daughter Gaura’s (Abigail Eames) wish of seeing her mother Olga (Erika Kaar), who abandoned them years ago. CAST: Ajay Devgn, Abigail Eames, Erika Kaar, Sayyeshaa Saigal, Girish Karnad

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