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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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ONE HIT WONDERS# 2

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Why should boys have all the fun huh? In the one hit wonders girls ain’t lagging behind, there are quite a lot of heroines who hit the bullseye with one big hit and could never repeat the success formulae ever again. Do you even remember a Meera Jogalekar from Ek Kali Muskayee(1967)? Or Naina Sahu from Hare Kaanch Ki Chooriyaan(1967)? In the second segment revisiting five leading ladies who hit bigtime and collapsed thereafter.  Vimi Aggarwal Petite, soft and beautiful almost like a Barbie doll, infact even expressionless like the doll that’s how Vimi could be described. Her debut Humraaz(1967) was a sensational musical blockbuster, but her subsequent releases in Bollywood ducked at box office, a tumultuous personal life and terrible choice of movies like Vachan(1974) and others ended her once promising career.  Kaajal Kiran Her debut Hum Kisise Kum Nahin(1977) was a box office mega hit replete with melodious music. She could’ve easily filled in for the retiring Neetu Singh, ...
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