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Mardaani 2 (2019)
Good initial story line - pathetic execution
The movie starts with a murder and rape of a 23 year old. The gore details of it are maintained very well. The story starts off super nice with a mystery for SP Shivani Roy to solve. She, with her expertise starts building a case and of course the story also takes into account the image of women not only in the current society but also the perception many of the officers in the police force also have (Shekhawat). The villain, an exhibitionist makes sure he draws SP's attention and keeps at her toes.
Having said this, the story started off really well. But then...it got hijacked by emotional content. Emotional content to the extent that it was a morally correcting film than a factual one. Added to that, the background score was more of a "long live Indian police theme" than of a good murder mystery thriller movie.
Rani Mukerji as usual, a good actor, delivered her best. The negative character was brilliant. Story could have been structured better. The moral part could have come later in the film with a good police-villian chase (with which it initially started but got hijacked by moral policing).
Arjun Reddy (2017)
Could be much better
One more typical LOVE STORY that ends "happily" in totally unlikely circumstances. The problem is that some parts of the movie were very realistic (especially the dialogues but not how they were delivered) so gave me hope that it might actually end with a realistic point of view but again the director chose to please the general crowd.
Happy that the real issue of drug abuse and alcoholism among youth was shown (but now that I think of it, it seems like it was just added to make the movie appeal to the young crowd and not really to address the issue in the society) and some characters were sticking to speaking their native tongue (not seen much in Telugu movies).
One more disappointment.