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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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(Temporary Backup) Raktanchal (2020) review

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Raktanchal (2020)  Director- Ritam Shrivastava  Cast- Nikiten Dheer, KrantiPrakash Jha, Chittaranjan Tripathy, Soundarya, Vikram Kochhar, Daya Shanker Panday, Krishna Bisht, Ronjini Chakraborty, Basu Soni, Pramod Pathak, Rajesh Dubey.  Right from the onset we can guess the inspiration for this gangwar webseries, it has to be the cult classic Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), high on violence, replete with choicest Hindi expletives it’s also got a good storyline.  Set in UP, the basic plot centres around two warring gangs, one led by the egoistic cold blooded Waseem Khan(Dheer) and the other by a simpleton turned gangster Vijay Singh(Jha), their mutual hatred for each other multiplies the dead body count where the two try outdoing each other notwithstanding innocent lives getting butchered in the bargain.  Direction is first rate, Shrivastava stays clear of making it another Mirzapur(2018) but the overdose of foul language and graphic violence could’ve been toned a bit...
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