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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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LUDO(2020): a game worth playing

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Director: Anurag Basu  Cast: Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Bachchan, Aditya Roy Kapur, Rajkumar Rao, Shalini Vatsa, Fatima Sheikh, Sanya Malhotra, Bhanu Uday, Rohit Saraf, Asha Negi, Pearle Maaney & others.  Have to confess, all this while I’d been under the foolish impression that Ludo is an Anurag Kashyap film, until the opening credits flashed! No idea why, but the teaser had that Kashyap kind of touché.  The other Anurag ie Basu is no less a maverick film maker, here he combines four parallel tracks that keep bumping into each other leading to a climax where all ‘accidentally’ meet-up. Basu has experimented in the past and going by his instincts he’ll surely keep experimenting for as long as he makes movies, this one is an over the top black comedy, nobody’s complaining as it’s meant to be over the top, colourful, sometimes loud, at times incomprehensible and most times entertaining.  Basu does a commendable job, thankfully the humour is managed responsibly, not...
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