Review of Mohenjo Daro

Story is so simple, rich girl, poor boy, he has to take revenge of his father death and save the people from evil. Main emphasis of makers was to make this film visually rich without much thinking about what they want to say. Film opening crocodile hunting scene is so amateurish, we have seen lots of amazing VFX work before like in Bahu-Bali. This scene was just to establish protagonist strength but not his wisdom because he assumes that there is just a single crocodile in a river!! And dives with riding crocodile's back deep into river. Screenplay is very much unaffected of era the story belongs. All scenes can easily fit in any time period except costume and locations. Love scenes are just because they have to. There is not a single scene where you can not predict the happening so excitement value is zero. Pre climax fight with two cannibals as they were introduced by the evil, is so fictitious and illogical. Cannibals fight with the male protagonist as they are much interested in showing their fighting strength than hunting a man. It seems that lion is flexing his muscle when he has to prey. Evil gets caught in climax then another extended climax comes as the flood threat by the dam build on river. Initially it was established and said as disadvantage of dam that it has made the villages dry but suddenly it emerges as biggest danger to the main city? Because again makers were relying on showing some lengthy rescue operation. Yes it looks grand but when you are not relating with it then it looks soulless. Performance wise Hritik Roshan is good. Kabir Bedi is fine and rest are just OK. When heroine becomes emotional you feel amused. Hard to believe that music has two stalwarts, A.R.Rehman and Gulzar Sahib.