Kalank... Movie or Theatre
Two superstars of today - Alia Bhatt & Varun Dhawan
Two superstars of yore - Madhuri Dixit & Sanjay Dutt
Two known faces - Sonakshi Sinha & Aditya Roy Kapur
THE Karan Johan Productions
Item number by Kriti Sanon
Madhuri Dixit dance choreographed by Saroj Khan
Music by Pritam
All this will definitely raise your expectations and it is a challenge for the makers to surpass it.
Well, they tried but... obviously there is a 'but'...
To summarize the review in one sentence, this film is not a 'movie' instead it is a theatrical presentation. If you watch it with this input, you might end up liking it. Today, our expectations from a 'movie' are high especially a couple of days after watching the new episode of the last season of Game of Thrones. We expect realism, there has to be blood after someone is stabbed multiple times, for eg and it is not cool to fight a computer graphics generated bull, colloquial dialogues, real locations and real people.
Story is cliched which again is acceptable in a theatre where we are used to watching the stories of Ramayan or Alladin again and again and don't mind it. It is no 'Andhadhun' which can keep surprising you in each scene. Here, you know exactly what is happening and what are the limited options for closure.
All actors are anyways awesome so they do their best to carry their characters. Varun Dhawan does it the best amongst all. Alia Bhatt being Alia Bhatt does everything she does best but I think we are expecting too much too soon from her. We need to give her time till she matures into doing such characters. Madhuri Dixit's solo dance made me wonder as to how many 55 year old women I could watch dancing?
Direction is slack at places, there are some gaps in the logic of why someone was doing what they were doing but that's kinda acceptable in fiction.
Karan Johar has got a particular world view which is quite visible in the characters, situations and what they do and say and it doesn't matter whether these characters live in today's America or the 1940s India.
Watch it if you like theatre.
Two superstars of yore - Madhuri Dixit & Sanjay Dutt
Two known faces - Sonakshi Sinha & Aditya Roy Kapur
THE Karan Johan Productions
Item number by Kriti Sanon
Madhuri Dixit dance choreographed by Saroj Khan
Music by Pritam
All this will definitely raise your expectations and it is a challenge for the makers to surpass it.
Well, they tried but... obviously there is a 'but'...
To summarize the review in one sentence, this film is not a 'movie' instead it is a theatrical presentation. If you watch it with this input, you might end up liking it. Today, our expectations from a 'movie' are high especially a couple of days after watching the new episode of the last season of Game of Thrones. We expect realism, there has to be blood after someone is stabbed multiple times, for eg and it is not cool to fight a computer graphics generated bull, colloquial dialogues, real locations and real people.
Story is cliched which again is acceptable in a theatre where we are used to watching the stories of Ramayan or Alladin again and again and don't mind it. It is no 'Andhadhun' which can keep surprising you in each scene. Here, you know exactly what is happening and what are the limited options for closure.
All actors are anyways awesome so they do their best to carry their characters. Varun Dhawan does it the best amongst all. Alia Bhatt being Alia Bhatt does everything she does best but I think we are expecting too much too soon from her. We need to give her time till she matures into doing such characters. Madhuri Dixit's solo dance made me wonder as to how many 55 year old women I could watch dancing?
Direction is slack at places, there are some gaps in the logic of why someone was doing what they were doing but that's kinda acceptable in fiction.
Karan Johar has got a particular world view which is quite visible in the characters, situations and what they do and say and it doesn't matter whether these characters live in today's America or the 1940s India.
Watch it if you like theatre.
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