Salman Found Wanting in 'Wanted'

I hate to visit my blog once in a while and see it look like a dilapidated warehouse on a mountain highway. I promise to myself that I would post more frequently, even if it amounts to plain rambling. The noise in a film blog comes from raves, rants and comments, and not necessarily critiques and analyses. Let me start with my comment on Wanted, which is Salman Khan's biggest hit in the past few years. This is probably the first film after a long time, where he has attempted to act and not sleepwalk through the role. But whatever little I saw of Wanted left me wanting for something better from Salman. No doubt the crowds are lapping his performance in a film whose style and treatment is different from most run-of-the-mill masala stuff on the big screen. But I recommend that one should actually see Pokkiri, the Tamil version of Wanted. In what was a purely masala film, Vijay kept the screen on fire with his histrionics and dialogue timing. Wish Salman had borrowed some Vijay's (ada) style from him, or at least director Prabhudeva had made Salman add a bit more spice to his performance (I can hear a lot of Salman fans ready to throw brickbats at me, but I stand by what i say).