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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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LAXMII (2020): no bomb 💣 here

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Directed by: Raghava Lawrence  Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kiara Advani, Rajesh Sharma, Manu Rishi Chadda, Tarun Arora, Ayesha Reza, Ashwini Kalshikar, Prachi Pandya, Adhvik Mahajan, Master Jason, Baby Grace, and Sharad Kelkar.  Now this one is an official remake of an over the top south movie, so you got to get used to the loud background score, superficial hamming by all artists, stunts defying gravity and the likes, if that’s not your cup of tea, well then you’ll have to skip this supernatural comedy, which unfortunately has nothing ‘super’ nor ‘comical’ about it.  Haven’t watched the original hence unsure whether that had any authenticity but the remake is awful and generously low on substance. The story (or the lack of it) is about a man who gets possessed by the revengeful ghost of a transgender who has to settle score with some evil conspirators. The screenplay is loaded with loopholes, you’ve to try really hard to laugh at the onscreen proceedings, the humour somehow suc...
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