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JAWAAN (2023) : review

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And finally the much hyped, much awaited Jawaan saw light of the day ! Big stars, big budget( humongous budget actually), big music composer, everything super large. But does it meet the expectations of the average viewer? No it goes not. Read on.  A decorated jawan locks horns with a criminal called Kaali, this is in 1986 ( the year movies like Aakhri Raasta released, just for reference). Kaali gets him eliminated and send the pregnant wife to jail. The baby born in jail grows up to become the hero (look alike of the father) and decides to avenge the misdeeds done to his innocent patriotic parents. Well, isn’t it a masaaledaar full on Bollywood- Tollywood drama subject ?  And then the director Atlee also borrows ideas and references from various retro movies, some idea from Sholay (1975) as the hero assembled a gang of jailed Qaidis in order to form a team to nab the villain, then there’s an entire episode borrowed from Dhartiputra (1993), and the basic theme is copy pasted ...
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KEDARNATH {2018} Director: Abhishek Kapoor  So we are revisiting the tragic cyclonic storms that claimed so many innocent lives in Uttarakhand in June 2013. To give the maverick director his due credit he has certainly done a fantastic job of recreating the horror in the last fifteen minutes of the movie.  Set in Uttarakhand the tragic love story features a young passionately in love couple Mansoor (Sushant Singh Rajput) and Mandakini (Sara Ali Khan) who are but obviously by Bollywood tradition divided by class and religion. With the families at war the unexpected storms create the much needed sensation in the story.  Director Abhishek Kapoor has focussed majorly on the anti climax sequences wherein the special effects are adorable and worth appreciating, when we can go ga ga over the cartoon like effects in the over hyped 2.0 (2018) why not give due credit to the effects here which are authentically conceptualised and look realistic. Kapoor nearly sleepwalks in his direc...
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