Not to mention the lullaby score in the background. Instead, she says, “ amma vara poranga,” a callback to Bhai’s emotional struggle with memories of his mother. Now, the usual way is to make Reena say she’s going to become a mother or Bhai is going to become a father. She doesn’t straight away tell him but drops hints that Bhai, who is preoccupied with business, doesn’t catch. Reena (played by Srinidhi Shetty) attempts to convey to Bhai that she is pregnant with his child. Let me illustrate this marriage with the most terrific scene of K.G.F Chapter 2 which concerns Bhai but isn’t about him. This meeting of the two worlds is powerful and visceral, even if it remains just a possibility throughout. The most amazing achievement of Prashanth Neel has got to be the marrying of the Hollywood motifs from influential figures - Coppola, Scorsese, Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson and George Miller - with masala flourishes from Indian filmmakers. There is only one way to look at K.G.F for it to work for you and that is to partake in the madness it offers - from scene to scene one set piece to another one giddy stunt choreography to the next. There, in that one single shot, Prashanth Neel highlights what the K.G.F films are for: to create a delirious cinematic experience, where there is barely any time for us to contemplate logic and sense. Bullet casings drop to the ground and Bhai walks in slow-motion to light up his cigarette from the gun’s nozzle with an equally electrifying background score by Ravi Basrur. With a cigarette hanging from his lip, he fires aimlessly to show his prowess as bullets zoom past the station and everything in between. There is a moment in K.G.F: Chapter 2, where Rocky Bhai (a rocking Yash, bathed and cleansed in masculine orgy) takes a machine gun out to blow up a police station, in the garb of a “field test”. After all, K.G.F films are written on steroids. That they no longer imagine scenes propelled by absolute madness. I've never been more happy to add a new Bond book to my bookshelf and continue the adventure.There is something outlandish yet gorgeous about the K.G.F franchise that they no longer make such films. I really need some fun! So while With A Mind To Kill is superb and going dark has never troubled me in the past, at this moment in time I still rank Trigger Mortis at the top of my Horowitz list as it seems the lightest of his outings. However, it is a darker book, and I'm still very much suffering PTSD from the last James Bond film, No Time To Die, with its relentless bleakness, hopelessness, and humiliating death of 007. So how does With A Mind To Kill stand against Horowitz's two other Bonds? I think most will agree With A Mind To Kill is his best and I wouldn't argue with that. This feels a bit calculated and while fans may like it, I thought it was a touch distracting. While call backs to The Man With The Golden Gun are integral with the plot and expected, it's possible every book gets a nod in some form. If I have a criticism (and this wouldn't be a proper review without) it would be with the frequent callbacks to past Fleming books. And it certainly isn't hard to see Russia as the villain these days, which makes this book, set in 1965, feel (tragically) up to the minute.
We also have a solid Bond Girl in Katya Leonova.
Bond's mission is clear cut, the locations are atmospheric, and the stakes are sky high from page one. Without going into major spoilers, the book delivers an epic action sequence set in London before moving onto Russia where much of the novel is set. The book is packed with tension and moves like a rocket. It's Horowitz's darkest Bond with a powerful climax that perfectly caps his time as the reigning continuation novelist and, possibly, this particular era of period Bond novels.įor a third time Horowitz proves he knows exactly what makes a great James Bond adventure.
I've had the pleasure of reading it and I can report it's excellent! Horowitz mines one of the richest untapped veins of the literary James Bond namely, what happened to 007 in Russia between the books You Only Live Twice and The Man With The Golden Gun. Anthony Horowitz's third and final James Bond novel, With A Mind To Kill, is released today by Jonathan Cape in the UK.
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