MISSION MANGAL - With this film my unsatisfactory run continues on with 'True story based movie starring Akhsay Kumar in lead' including Airlift, Rustam, Toilet - Ek Prem Katha, Gold and Kesari with PADMAN being the only exception which i liked a lot.
This one is not your usual fact based movie (like almost every other true story starring Akshay). Because even if you don't know all the facts about the Mission (just like me), the way things happened in the film you can easily judge that No-Way in reality things would have happened in this way. So first suggestion would be Watch this movie with a lot of GRAIN OF SALT. For comparison i would say 'Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran' was a better movie made in a realistic and fact based way.
But this movie is nowhere bad or anything. Its a decent entertainment. Infact some may like it a lot or even love it, who just want to get entertained doesn't care much about to know the realistic ways of working in ISRO or doesn't mind OVER-SIMPLIFIED science. This movie makes you feel like the Mission was so easy to accomplish and the ideas were so easy to come by. For example in one scene Sonakshi's character just utters the word "Its Impossible" upon which she gets an Angry speech from Akshay to do her job rightly. And the next morning she came up with the idea to solve the problem. Its like the scolding was the magical thing to open a Scientist's mind.
Nevertheless, some things which i really liked are the portrayal of Women in the movie and the role reversal. There have been uncountable movies where we see Men doing important jobs and wife being at home sometimes being supportive and sometimes not. That role is totally reversed here. Which i really loved. It makes you realize that in this predominate world were it has been made Universal Rule that its just Mother's Job to nurture there child (Dialogues from a husband to her wife like - tumhe to bas job ki padi hei, bachon tumhare bigad rahe hein & ETC) how difficult it is for working Women to manage Work with Home. Much more difficult then its more Men.
Vidya Balan is in the front and center of the film. Infact i think its not Akhsay who should have been the big face on the Poster, rather it should have been Balan. I mean seriously , she literally had longer screen time in the movie then Akhsay. But you know Akshay Kumar sells ticket, so that,s that. But thankfully Women in this film got great characters, and i mean each and everyone. And every actress did really good job with her character even if some of them didn't got enough screen time.
The Direction in comparison is not so perfect. Again its not bad at all , rather the First Time director shows that he has good hands to control a film but he also shows that right now he is a little inexperienced. He couldn't made the scenes tighter, couldn't raise enough excitement which could have made this movie better. In comparison he handles the funny scenes pretty brilliantly.
The movie is long. And it takes almost 60-65% of the movie to finish for the actual mission to start.
It was just too Bollywoodised. The science was too simplified. the tension was not there. Rather it was a fun movie. And i didn't wanted the movie which was based on one of the Biggest Achievement of my Country to be just a 'FUN MOVIE'. I wanted it to be something more then that.
7.1/10
By ANuP APu KuMaR
This one is not your usual fact based movie (like almost every other true story starring Akshay). Because even if you don't know all the facts about the Mission (just like me), the way things happened in the film you can easily judge that No-Way in reality things would have happened in this way. So first suggestion would be Watch this movie with a lot of GRAIN OF SALT. For comparison i would say 'Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran' was a better movie made in a realistic and fact based way.
But this movie is nowhere bad or anything. Its a decent entertainment. Infact some may like it a lot or even love it, who just want to get entertained doesn't care much about to know the realistic ways of working in ISRO or doesn't mind OVER-SIMPLIFIED science. This movie makes you feel like the Mission was so easy to accomplish and the ideas were so easy to come by. For example in one scene Sonakshi's character just utters the word "Its Impossible" upon which she gets an Angry speech from Akshay to do her job rightly. And the next morning she came up with the idea to solve the problem. Its like the scolding was the magical thing to open a Scientist's mind.
Nevertheless, some things which i really liked are the portrayal of Women in the movie and the role reversal. There have been uncountable movies where we see Men doing important jobs and wife being at home sometimes being supportive and sometimes not. That role is totally reversed here. Which i really loved. It makes you realize that in this predominate world were it has been made Universal Rule that its just Mother's Job to nurture there child (Dialogues from a husband to her wife like - tumhe to bas job ki padi hei, bachon tumhare bigad rahe hein & ETC) how difficult it is for working Women to manage Work with Home. Much more difficult then its more Men.
Vidya Balan is in the front and center of the film. Infact i think its not Akhsay who should have been the big face on the Poster, rather it should have been Balan. I mean seriously , she literally had longer screen time in the movie then Akhsay. But you know Akshay Kumar sells ticket, so that,s that. But thankfully Women in this film got great characters, and i mean each and everyone. And every actress did really good job with her character even if some of them didn't got enough screen time.
The Direction in comparison is not so perfect. Again its not bad at all , rather the First Time director shows that he has good hands to control a film but he also shows that right now he is a little inexperienced. He couldn't made the scenes tighter, couldn't raise enough excitement which could have made this movie better. In comparison he handles the funny scenes pretty brilliantly.
The movie is long. And it takes almost 60-65% of the movie to finish for the actual mission to start.
It was just too Bollywoodised. The science was too simplified. the tension was not there. Rather it was a fun movie. And i didn't wanted the movie which was based on one of the Biggest Achievement of my Country to be just a 'FUN MOVIE'. I wanted it to be something more then that.
7.1/10
By ANuP APu KuMaR