Bramhastra: Part one - Shiva

             Well, the thought that repeatedly crossed my mind while watching the film was, "you can't take Harry Potter out of any fantasy film". From Shiva being the chosen one, his mother dying when he was a baby to Guruji withholding information from him like Dumbledore did. The climax scene had the same essence that "Philosopher's stone" had. Even the villain is similar to Voldemort. He possesses and uses people to get to the stone, whispering in their ears and not having a real body but still being alive because of the powers he possesses. Shiva also had a personal connection with the villain and was getting visions of him. Junoon being a faithful servant and as cruel as Bellatrix. A lot of similarities!

              Enough with Harry Potter. Brahmastra Part One : Shiva  is unintentionally funny whenever the characters open their mouths. The story is too cliched and so many interesting characters are wasted. Why does the movie start on a bad comic note? Why are the bad guys so loud and almost immortal? If they are this big a community of saviours then why no one showed up to rescue at least the second important person after the death of the first one? If only they had kept the story very basic and everything in the frame was utilized well, it would have been a treat to the eyes. Which it was but without any feelings to it. Good guys were dying so easily that the bad guys just had to chase them. Guruji at a point tells Shiva that everything is connected and you have not just randomly reached here and then the most important aspect of his life, love, is as random as it can be. If everything is happening for a reason then why is there no reason for Isha being in his life? There are so many questions and none of them are answered. There are empty streets, empty Ghats, empty temples, which in real life are the most crowded places. This is happening in the 21st century and no satellite is getting the signal of these huge activities in Himalaya. Everything happens to the convenience of the characters. Because of these basic but very very important aspects the spectacular visual effects are reduced to just being technically good. So much time is wasted in stupid action sequences and suddenly they fill your brain with information worth half an hour in 10 minutes. Let alone the audience, how are the characters supposed to go to war with this bombardment of very important bits of information and grasp it, process it and then start fighting almost immediately? And when asked about it, like an unimportant person, Isha is told that "we have told "him" everything". As if suggesting, you don't need to know it. 

            Aliya Bhatt, one of the most talented actors we have in the country today, is worse than her debut movie Student of the year. None of the characters have any depth to believe the conclusion of the movie. And I really want to ask creators for which universe the dialogues were written. Where the hell did they see people talking like this? Every word said by every character is a cringe. The villain, Mouny Roy's character, has slightly better tone and dialogues, otherwise everything else was like hearing a voice over, especially Guruji.

             Shahrukh Khan and Nagarjuna were a treat to the eyes. They played their part so well that I wished it was their movie and I could see more of them. The feeling when Wanar appeared on screen when Shahrukh uses wanarastra and Nandi appears on the use of Nandi astra was the best of the whole movie. As opposed to when agnee astra appears for Ranbir or when the sword forms, it was so sudden that we did not get any time to process those developments. His emerging as saviour seems very childish. We took 11 year old Harry Potter seriously but couldn't believe this 30 year old grown man who explained the circle as "Pizza like ''. 

             The movie strangely was not boring at all, eyes were pleased, ears were happy until no one talked and brain was proud of itself for creating better theories than the makers. Now just waiting for Deepika as Shiva's mother in the next part, just out of curiosity, to see if she delivers the dialogues in the same manner. 

                                                               


                                                                                                                           -- Megha Chougule

Comments

  1. Bhoomika Pandhare3 October 2022 at 11:41

    You have hit the nail on the head with this one. Acidic and acerbic.

    This review is more of an entertainer than the movie itself. :)

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