Don't get fooled by the promos - this is the only thing I gathered from "Eklavya - The Royal Guard". This is that movie where you get all the good scenes in the promos and then you have nothing to watch in the theater.
I can not tell how it started because I entered in PVR after 15 mins of movie start. But with my bollywood sixth sense I could guess 15 mins easily and don't need any one to tell me as what all I missed, because I am sure I did none. Eklayva is, supposedly, a saga of a royal guards genre who are serving a bunch of "ranas" for ages. Their "dharma" is well told to them since the childhood and that is to protect the "rana" at any cost. If they failed in the "dharma" then their nine generation would end up in the fist of hell. The latest guard in the generation, Eklayva, is also trying to serve his dharma. But then tale took a turn and he had to do few more favors to the rana family because the great rana himself was naturally unable to regenerate. And thus he ended up becoming father of two twins of rana, the secret which unveils, to rana, only when both the children are in their adulthood. This starts a series of mumbo-jumbo and senseless garbage of events with the word "dharma" being repeated in every frame by every actor in the movie, and perhaps by director, camera-men, sidies and spot boys. This is when I started praying to god to end this movies which, from mercy of god, did end.
Apart from few fantastic cinematography there is nothing to watch in this movie. And frankly, you don't have to turn up in theater to see the same as it is available every 10 mins on ETC.
My favorite actor and character in the movies has to be Bomen Irani (Rana). A thakur, who has noting manly than his mustaches and beard, is fantastically played by Bomen. Mr. AB has else but to be real tense with lot of redness in the eyes. Saif is good and Vidya Balan is allright. Raima irritates in every frame she appears and Sanjay Dutt asks the same question in his look as do I - why the heck I am here.
All in all, it's a waste of time and for me - waste of money. A lot was expected from VVC as I like this guy but looks like he should better stick to production only.
Star - 1 and half (out of five)
Recommendation - Stay away unless you know you will never be able to visit Udaipur.
I can not tell how it started because I entered in PVR after 15 mins of movie start. But with my bollywood sixth sense I could guess 15 mins easily and don't need any one to tell me as what all I missed, because I am sure I did none. Eklayva is, supposedly, a saga of a royal guards genre who are serving a bunch of "ranas" for ages. Their "dharma" is well told to them since the childhood and that is to protect the "rana" at any cost. If they failed in the "dharma" then their nine generation would end up in the fist of hell. The latest guard in the generation, Eklayva, is also trying to serve his dharma. But then tale took a turn and he had to do few more favors to the rana family because the great rana himself was naturally unable to regenerate. And thus he ended up becoming father of two twins of rana, the secret which unveils, to rana, only when both the children are in their adulthood. This starts a series of mumbo-jumbo and senseless garbage of events with the word "dharma" being repeated in every frame by every actor in the movie, and perhaps by director, camera-men, sidies and spot boys. This is when I started praying to god to end this movies which, from mercy of god, did end.
Apart from few fantastic cinematography there is nothing to watch in this movie. And frankly, you don't have to turn up in theater to see the same as it is available every 10 mins on ETC.
My favorite actor and character in the movies has to be Bomen Irani (Rana). A thakur, who has noting manly than his mustaches and beard, is fantastically played by Bomen. Mr. AB has else but to be real tense with lot of redness in the eyes. Saif is good and Vidya Balan is allright. Raima irritates in every frame she appears and Sanjay Dutt asks the same question in his look as do I - why the heck I am here.
All in all, it's a waste of time and for me - waste of money. A lot was expected from VVC as I like this guy but looks like he should better stick to production only.
Star - 1 and half (out of five)
Recommendation - Stay away unless you know you will never be able to visit Udaipur.
1 comments:
Bomen == women
ha ha ha. Good review SP bhai. This is one of the worst movies I have seen in last one tenth of a century.
Munnabhai and Langda Tyagi have been wasted. Movie was such a bag of shit that Langda was immediately hospitalised for heart attack.
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