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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012)
Nice story but not very well filmed
I am not a regular reviewer so please excuse my English writing.
Well, yes. A very good "fiction" story. Riz Ahmad did good job. Om Puri sir, excellent as always. The story is so powerful that it really dragged me to IMDb to appreciate it. I love the Qawwali from Coke Studio from the very famous group.
Most of the "Pakistani" parts are filmed in India so there are flaws. Let's come to the poor location selection, bad choices of characters and worst dialogs as always in the Hollywood movies made for South Asia.
- Shabana Aazmi was a huge misfit because the family is a Lahori family but Shabana's Punjabi is not that up to the mark.
- Secondly, the universities in Pakistan (even the worst ones) don't look like the one shown in the movie. Even if I assume it's a fiction movie, there must me something close to reality. You can check google images of "Pakistani universities".
- Thirdly, why, when we show people from Pakistan, there are Muslim caps everywhere :). Guys, there are hardly few people in Lahore who wear Muslim caps but I know the director have tried to show the religious extremism but it's not the best way.
- And Shabana says to Riz on the phone, "Electricity is not available and Eid Mubarak". I can assure that the time shown in the movie, at that time there was hardly any loadshedding in Pakistan. In fact between 1998 - 2008, most of the people forgot about power cuts. Power cuts started from 2008. Even if there is a powercut, a Princeton graduate with a huge salary can't afford a power generator in his house in Lahore :)
- Riz Khan's acting is good but he recited a very common verse of Iqbal that was wrong. I am sure even a lot of Indians know the correct version.
I would say very good writing but poor direction and bad location choices.
Heropanti (2014)
Not at all recommended.
Just two things in this movie are nice. 1. Prakash Raj 2. Music. I just don't understand in which age the directors, editors and producers of this movie are living. After watching the trailer, I seriously expected this movie to be like Commando and it could have been better than that considering Tiger Shroff has nice gymnastics skills but I wasted three hours of my life last night. I am not a regular viewer of Indian movies but this movie forced me to write this review to warn viewers about the bad direction and script.
The movie has a lot of hiccups that gave an extra painful extension to the length of the movie. Like appearance of songs, they just come out of no where. No context is considered.
Bad bad bad script. Like what the hell I should understand with the dialog:
"iski shade khan Karna Ha Ye haq main apse nahi chhinana chahta.....Lekin jahan Bi tay ki Ha..Agar use Zara Si Bi takleef Hui...To Main apko nahi chodunga...!"
Secondly, what, in the whole movie the forth small guy need to do? He certainly has nothing to do to stay in the whole movie since they caught him with a confusion. Prakash Raj, as usual tried to give his 100% but because of weak script, this movie would have been his career's worst one after probably Dabbang 2.
All in all, I just hated this movie.