MOHENJO DARO - When the trailer for this movie was out , i told all my friends that the movie doesn't seems like showing any details about the history like we have seen in GWARIKAR's earlier movies like LAGAAN , JODHA AKBAR and the unfortunate flop KHELEN HUM JEE JAAN SE . In- fact it looked liked just a plan story in a backdrop of the city MOHENJO DARO. But you know we have to trust the director , and should not judge the movie by its trailer. RIGHT ? . Absolutely wrong. The movie is exactly the product what the trailer shows with a oversimplified and over saturated story-line which provide nothing exciting except some very few light hearted laughing moment , some good dance performances (which i don't know were appropriate or not . Does belly dancing has already been invented in 2016 BC? I don't know about that) and a single GLADIATOR like fight scene which although was nothing exceptional but was OK as compared to rest of the movie. The Beginning of the movie seems too much inspired with BAHUBALI where our hero wants to go to the city called MOHENJO DARO for some reason he doesn't understand himself. Then he meet our female lead. they fall in love , some songs happen , villain is the hurdle , some backstory about why the city feels familiar to our hero , then a number of climaxes happens. Yes you read it right. The movie really test your patience , just when you think , nothing more left to see, the movie extend it to more 15 mins , and then when you feel OK NOW AT LAST ITS FINISHED it extend itself for more 20 MINS. So we actually have not one but 3 climax. Although the last 20mins are good (if only you could ignore the scientific jumps the movie takes about ENGINEERING knowledge one requires to built a Bridge) but it was too late to care.
Hritik gave an earnest performance , but was surely not at its best. If you ask me , his character was not so complicated which needs an actor like Hritik to perform. Some newcomer would have been a better choice then i could have justified the silly and childish things his character has been doing in LOVE. Pooja Hedge in his Bollywood debut , surely looked good , but she doesn't promise any exceptional performance in future. Arunoday Singh seems like an extended and period version of his character in MAIN TERA HERO. I hope he must not be typecast in the role of "VILLAINS WHO WANTS TO MARRY HEROINS roles". About Kabir Bedi , i just don't like him as an actor. So i didn't liked him here too. Ashutosh surly is a good director, but he has written a typical Bollywood story this time. Which was difficult to be saved BY Hritik's performance , Rehman's if not brilliant but good music and some good cinematography and production design (although movie looked very much like any Egyptian empire of Hollywood films). There is just nothing to recommend here. Except you are a too much die hard fan of Hritik. Although i must warn you , the person with whom i was watching the film was a FAn too , and his reaction was as same as me. 6.2/10 by ANuP APu KuMaR.
Hritik gave an earnest performance , but was surely not at its best. If you ask me , his character was not so complicated which needs an actor like Hritik to perform. Some newcomer would have been a better choice then i could have justified the silly and childish things his character has been doing in LOVE. Pooja Hedge in his Bollywood debut , surely looked good , but she doesn't promise any exceptional performance in future. Arunoday Singh seems like an extended and period version of his character in MAIN TERA HERO. I hope he must not be typecast in the role of "VILLAINS WHO WANTS TO MARRY HEROINS roles". About Kabir Bedi , i just don't like him as an actor. So i didn't liked him here too. Ashutosh surly is a good director, but he has written a typical Bollywood story this time. Which was difficult to be saved BY Hritik's performance , Rehman's if not brilliant but good music and some good cinematography and production design (although movie looked very much like any Egyptian empire of Hollywood films). There is just nothing to recommend here. Except you are a too much die hard fan of Hritik. Although i must warn you , the person with whom i was watching the film was a FAn too , and his reaction was as same as me. 6.2/10 by ANuP APu KuMaR.