Toofaan is the story of Aziz Ali from the slums who turns to professional boxing. It is his journey filled with obstacles that makes for the entire film. The story is truly outdated even if you look from a standpoint of sports as a genre. The typical underdog story is done and dusted so many times. Infact, this movie gives you vibes of Gully Boy meeting Sultan. In other words, nothing novel in the story. The screenplay is predictable although watchable. You exactly know how the story will unfold. The first half is breezy although the transformation journey(also in the second half) should have been inspiring(remember Bhaag Milkha Bhaag?). The real issue begins in the second half that begins to stretch. It is here where a few minutes could have been chopped off on the edit table to reduce the length of 161 minutes which was a bit too much for a sports film. Though there are a couple of twists, at least one of which I did not see it coming, the drama is as predictable as the multiplication table of 3. I also had an issue with the way the conflicts were portrayed. Any conflict in one scene would be resolved in the very next scene. Some issues like communalism were good and handled well too, however, the resolution should have been slightly better. On the plus side, the fight sequences in the ring are nice picturized and ooze of a lot of style. They also seem quite real. But overall, predictable is the word for the screenplay.