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Critic Review
Class Of 83 (2020)When a top cop is sent away on a punishment posting as the Dean of a Police training academy, he decides to get back at a corrupt system by training five cadets to carry out what he couldn’t finish. But his plan may not be as sure-fire as he imagines it to be. Based on Hussain Zaidi’s book with the same name, 'Class of 83' tells the story of a committed Mumbai Police cop, Vijay Singh (Bobby Deol) who goes through professional and personal losses simultaneously. As his quest to nab a dreaded underworld gang-lord goes awry, he is relegated to the post of a Dean at a Police training academy in Nashik. At the same time, he has to come to terms with the sudden death of his wife. At the academy, his past still haunts him and he realises that even though he followed the law diligently, he wasn’t able to play smart enough to protect himself from falling prey to a corrupt nexus between the politicians and the underworld. Armed with a new resolve, he picks five cadets from the academy and decides to train them skilfully with his insights and insider tips. Even though these five young men - Pramod Shukla (Bhupendra Jadawat), Aslam Khan (Sameer Paranjape), Vishnu Varde (Hitesh Bhojraj), Janardan Surve (Prithvik Pratap) and Lakshman Jadhav (Ninad Mahajani) - are the bottom performing students in their batch, they soak in the practical knowledge bestowed on them by Vijay Singh.As they pass out and join the Mumbai Police force, it takes a few years before Singh’s plans can start to take shape. However, by then each of them are seasoned policemen themselves with their own notions about law, order and corruption. And moreover, the landscape of Mumbai’s crime and underworld has changed..
All said and done, Class Of 83 in the hands of artists who know this world better would’ve been a far superior product. Nothing works for the film in its current version and it’s a shame because yet another good story wasted..
Overall, the film gives off the impression of being the pilot episode of an interesting series on Mumbai’s cops and criminals. It would have worked better if it was developed as a series....
Still, Class of ‘83 works both as a well-realised if a trifle sketchy hark-back at an interesting epoch, as well as an entertainer. Though we’ve seen so many iterations of the gangsters vs honest law enforcers in the movies, there’s always room for .
There’s a reason why a certain section of the Indian audience (still) idolises characters such as Singham and Chulbul Pandey. It is because they also endorse these characters’ eye for an eye approach to dispensing justice. But with three back-to-back .
Class of '83 is not to be watched lightly. Especially in the latter half when youthful banter is dispensed with and harsh realities take over, it demands close attention. As it happens, that attention is not hard to give because Sabharwal and editor Manas.
But ultimately, although 'Class of 83' had all the ingredients to make a gripping crime drama and recreates a realistic setting, it ends up dishing out a tedious watch..
