Though the title says review but this is no professional review. This is a musafir review. You can close the window if you want. Ha ha. Anyways I write for fun on this blog.
I had gone to watch the film without any clue of the story or without any story based reviews. I guess I will have to keep the suspense here as I dont intend to share the script with you.
Mr Hirani has the ability to make a film on a sensitive issue and yet let it sound totally uncontroversial. To make a film on Gandhi in India and not have any public unrest is phenomenal. In PK, he draws an amazing script on an issue as difficult as religion...and gets away with it. No protests till now.
The most phenomenal thing in the film is that everything is questioned within the film...including the origin of the hero. You dont have to believe in the story but gradually you start believing in the origin of the hero...and then you are in for a ride as the protagonist asks questions and goes to the origin of religions in a very organic manner. An enquiry so deep and yet so simple that any common audience would relate to it. The fact that the protagonist happens to choose Bhojpuri accent by accident is a part of the script I guess.
Though the film has the conventional Hindi film drama and melodrama but it is amazing in what it does and delivers.
Aamir is as usualy but I think an actor like Pankaj Kapur or Shahnawaaz could have made the film 10 times more powerful. But I guess, the fact that a mainstream super actor chooses to do such a film is in itself a nice thing.
I happen to see the film with an upcoming AD of a film and we both agree that it takes a lot of friendship between Vidhu Vinod and Hirani to produce such films.
If you have some interest in communal harmony...this film will appeal you.
I had gone to watch the film without any clue of the story or without any story based reviews. I guess I will have to keep the suspense here as I dont intend to share the script with you.
Mr Hirani has the ability to make a film on a sensitive issue and yet let it sound totally uncontroversial. To make a film on Gandhi in India and not have any public unrest is phenomenal. In PK, he draws an amazing script on an issue as difficult as religion...and gets away with it. No protests till now.
The most phenomenal thing in the film is that everything is questioned within the film...including the origin of the hero. You dont have to believe in the story but gradually you start believing in the origin of the hero...and then you are in for a ride as the protagonist asks questions and goes to the origin of religions in a very organic manner. An enquiry so deep and yet so simple that any common audience would relate to it. The fact that the protagonist happens to choose Bhojpuri accent by accident is a part of the script I guess.
Though the film has the conventional Hindi film drama and melodrama but it is amazing in what it does and delivers.
Aamir is as usualy but I think an actor like Pankaj Kapur or Shahnawaaz could have made the film 10 times more powerful. But I guess, the fact that a mainstream super actor chooses to do such a film is in itself a nice thing.
I happen to see the film with an upcoming AD of a film and we both agree that it takes a lot of friendship between Vidhu Vinod and Hirani to produce such films.
If you have some interest in communal harmony...this film will appeal you.
