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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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AASHRAM 2(2020): Not Upto The Mark

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Directed by: Prakash Jha  Cast: Bobby Deol, Darshan Kumar, Anupriya Goenka, Sachin Shroff, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Aditi Pohankar, Tushar Pandey, Tridha Chaudhary, Anurita Jha, Adhyayan Suman, Rajeev Siddhartha, Vikram Kochhar & others.  Season one had it’s gripping moments with some unpredictability and authenticity, typically in Prakash Jha’s trademark pattern, somehow that’s missing in part two, and things look monotonous.  Spread over nine long elongated episodes and also very strongly hinting at part three this could’ve easily been wrapped up this time. Continuing from earlier season the fake Godman Baba Nirala(Deol) continues his power hungry game, when he’s not raping innocent women or campaigning for politicians he’s found playing with puppets in his grand bedroom. There’s a lot of focus on the political affiliations this time, and after a point it drags and appears boring, if you don’t yawn then you are used to such repetitive fare.  Jha is no doubt in great...
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