Naam Shabana Movie Review

We all remember 2015's critically acclaimed action spy thriller 'Baby' directed by Neeraj Pandey. Tapsee Pannu played Shabana Khan in that movie where she travels with Akshay Kumar pretending to be her wife to capture the terrorist Wasim Khan. Naam Shabana is Baby's Spin-off featuring Tapsee Pannu as Shabana Khan in the lead role. Naam Shabana, however, is not directed by the talented Neeraj Pandey. This time he has given the job of director to Shivam Nair and Neeraj is the producer of the movie.

Naam Shabana is about character Shabana Khan (Tapsee Pannu), a B.Com student whose life revolves around her training and widowed mother and her classmate Jai (Taher Mithaiwala) who loves her but she doesn't entertain her. When they finally go on a date, Shabana tells Taher about her past and reciprocates his feelings. On their way back home, they get pursued by eve-teasers and a tragedy follows. Hereon, the making of Shabana - The Lethal Spy begins.

Naam Shaban includes a powerful starcast - Manoj Bajpayee, Tapsee Pannu and the handsome antagonist Prithviraj Sukumaran all do justice to their roles. Akshay Kumar does a cameo. Sadly, the movie falters in the direction and screenplay department. The movie fails to gather pace in the first half which seems very stretched. Akshay Kumar makes an appearance in just one scene before interval with hardly any dialogues. Post intermission, within 5 minutes you get back the Baby starcast and the movie gathers pace and becomes interesting.  The ending is extremely fast paced but that doesn't help as the audience lose interest in the first half a bit.

If you enjoyed Akshay Kumar's Baby, then you are definitely gonna find it interesting. Liking is very subjective but this for sure is a watchable movie. We give it 3.5 stars.