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Deewar Movie Review
The film has some great moments.
It is a thorough entertainer like Milan Luthria's previous
film Kachhe Dhaage, which also was an escape drama about
Ajay Devgan and Saif Ali Khan escaping. Deewar is slickly
paced, but has a slightly tried and tested formula.
Milan Luthria's storytelling is however worth mentioning.
Amitabh Bachchan gets
a hero's role after a long time. He did carry Baghban
on his shoulders and carried this one too, admirably.
Bachchan has not lost any of his charm and personality.
Since he plays his age, the role suits well.
Sanjay Dutt is mind
blowing as Khan! His eyes speak a lot in the film and
his sense of comedy and timing leaves you stunned as
the rare comic moments waft through the serious film.
Akshaye Khanna works
hard on his role. He suits it too. His comic timing,
his charismatic smile, fits the bill. The only problem
is the age. He is said to be 30. And he was a small
child when Amitabh Bachchan went to the war. It ahs
been 33 years since the war. Which means that he had
to be 35 at least. Anyway, that is left to cinematic
liberty.
This film focuses on
the male characters and therefor Amrita Rao hardly has
scope. She is very cute, but sadly does not look like
a seductress during the Piya Banwari song though she
tries very hard.
Tanuja is wasted as
the mother. Aditya Shrivastav as the bad Pakistani army
man and Kay Kay as the evil jailor do well. They give
out menacing looks and do not utter any anti-India dialogues.
The film does not have any anti-Pakistan dialogues like
Gadar and does not create any communal or anti national
feelings.
The camerawork is nothing
spectacular, but the slick editing helps the film a
lot. There has been a lot of research on the script
and every detail has been done well. Even the scene
of a Pakistani soldier noticing the Indian matchbox
in the hands of Akshaye Khanna is quite remarkably taken.
But there needs to be
a thought given to not inserting songs when the pace
of film is just picking up. There were people who walked
out for a smoke during the Piya Banwari and the Marhaba
numbers.
All in all… an
entertaining project Deewar does not disappoint at all.
It is a delight for many interested in watching engaging
and compelling cinema. |
