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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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FLASHBACK# No one killed Divya Bharti?

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The millennials today may not even know there existed a star called Divya Bharti who was hailed as the rising sensation of the early 90s, a blooming life nipped in the bud ! Revisiting the life and times of an actress who showed immense star appeal and promise only to be snatched away by a cruel turn of destiny.  With her family, brother Kunal, mother Mita and father Om Prakash (1992)  Born in 1974, Divya was raised in Bombay and film actors Sharman Joshi and Farhan Akhtar were her school batch mates till standard tenth. While her classmates pursued higher studies, Divya’s ambitious mother pushed her in the glamorous world of films, at 15 she started acting in Telugu films. Bobilli Raja(1990) was a blockbuster and Divya became a much sought after teen sensation down south. It wasn’t long before Bollywood producers started making a beeline for Divya to sign the dotted line for them.  A still photograph from her Movie magazine shoot (1993)  She was signed on and uncere...
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