superindrajit Review of Mrityudaata

Mrityudaata (1997)

Awesome start, becomes horrible after interval

[4/10 · 23 November 2011]

After Bachan's delayed release Insaniyat(1994) flopped, Bachan took a break from movies and made a comeback with Mrityudaata(1997). Director Mehul Kumar also directed Mrityudaata after his two super hit films Tiranga and Krantiveer. I had great expectations from this movie and Amitabh Bachan is not a flopper like Akshay Kumar in 1997 who gave 7 flops in a single year. However, his only 2 hits being Bade Miya Chote Miya and Major Saab in 1998, he was crticized for picking some wrong films. The movie started off well, the introduction of the villains and their needs is shown well. The attempt to murder is also well shown and the introduction and current position of our hero Amitabh is well shown. The flashbacks of how Amitabh's family is killed is also well shown. Basically, everything before the interval is good and I really liked this movie before the interval. But, right after the interval, all the crying from the family about Arbaz's death and then when Karishma is getting married and Big B's brothers death things meet, Dimple Kapadia dies after doing some retarted shouting. But, I expected the movie to get better with some revenge and action. The following happened. However, the story was out of control and Pran's limited screen time is nothing good, he is just wasted. Big B running from the police and then Diler Mehendi's squeezed in song which was good. However, the plot is weak how they run into to Diler's show. Then they chase Amitabh to a brothel and Amitabh suddenly stops running and starts doing a Sunny Deol act beating everyone up. From here, they stop lengthing the movie and quickly finish it with Amitabh killing every villain. The ending is good, how they expose the villains. But, the prolonged ending of Amitabh and all the crowd chasing Paresh Rawal to the end is really prolonged and dragged. Amitabh kills the villains but is injured to such an extent, he dies. Its stupid how Amitabh kills all the villains but burning them and even in his last movie, he dies at the end. But, that was stupider. Mehul Kumar is a pathetic filmmaker who relied on actors to save his films but Amitabh doesn't save the movie for him. According to box office results, Mrityudaata was a flop, not as bad as Insaniyat but still a flop. Amitabh does his role in ease, he doesn't ham or mess his role up, Dimple Kapadia does good but her death scene is bad, she overacts, Karishma Kappoor is good but even she overacts, and Arbaaz Ali Khan doesn't known how to act, he's terrible. The villain inlcude Deepak Tijori who is wasted in his little screen time, Mukesh Rishi who can only get angry and overact, Ashish Vidhyarthi who is okay and Paresh Rawal who is good. Supporting Actors like Pran had only 20 minutes of screen time and is wasted. Overall, a movie which is just average. Could have been better if the second half was improved and then Big B would have saved the day.