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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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MIDNIGHT’s CHILDREN (2012)

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MIDNIGHT’s CHILDREN by Deepa Mehta Cast: Satya Bhabha, Siddhartha Suryanarayan, Shriya Saran, Ronit Roy, Shahana Goswami, Shabana Azmi, Seema Biswas, Anupam Kher, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Soha Ali Khan, Rahul Bose, Neha Mahajan, Ranvir Shorey, Vinay Pathak, Rajat Kapoor and others.  Unsure if this movie had a theatrical release in my country( when internationally released in 2012-13) but it certainly makes Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy(2020) look like a classic. Mehta has failed in every aspect of this cinematic adaptation of a great novel.  It is claimed that the writer Salman Rushdie was really proud of this adaptation, really? Why? It’s bizarre and disjointed, a complete cold blooded murder of cinematic liberty. Specially the second half that zooms like Rajdhani Express with no halts.  While the novel dealt with human emotions, the dilemma of a young adult in post independent India, his tribulations, self discovery etc. Here it goes to another level, more like a desperate a...
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