It is hard to believe that Kangana Ranaut has directed Emergency, the excellent biopic on the multifaceted little-understood India Gandhi, while playing her so skilfully on screen.
At first the whining voice tends to get in the way. But we soon get used to it—and at almost three hours , there is plenty of time for whatever emotional and other adjustments this canny biopic requires—and within fifteen minutes of playing time Ms Ranaut assumes the space that Mrs Gandhi occupied, with an impressive equipoise.
So overpowering is Ms Ranaut’s screen presence—the hurt, the pride, the anger, the egotism, the obstinacy, the vulnerability—that it is easy to overlook the sheer excellence of the presentation.
Emergency is not just another biopic thrown into the prolonged season of genre-orgying. It is a story that needed to be told, and is told with an assertive acumen that makes for an...
At first the whining voice tends to get in the way. But we soon get used to it—and at almost three hours , there is plenty of time for whatever emotional and other adjustments this canny biopic requires—and within fifteen minutes of playing time Ms Ranaut assumes the space that Mrs Gandhi occupied, with an impressive equipoise.
So overpowering is Ms Ranaut’s screen presence—the hurt, the pride, the anger, the egotism, the obstinacy, the vulnerability—that it is easy to overlook the sheer excellence of the presentation.
Emergency is not just another biopic thrown into the prolonged season of genre-orgying. It is a story that needed to be told, and is told with an assertive acumen that makes for an...
- 1/17/2025
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
Emergency Movie Review Rating:
Star Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Anupam Kher, Mahima Chaudhary, Shreyas Talpade, Milind Soman & others
Director: Kangana Ranaut
Emergency Movie Review(Photo Credit – YouTube)
What’s Good: No political vested interest but a balanced yet incisive look at India’s most controversial prime minister.
What’s Bad: An episodic feeling in parts.
Loo Break: Certainly not!
Watch or Not?: Yes, it is edu-tainment for all.
Language: Hindi
Available On: Theatrical release
Runtime: 148 Minutes
User Rating:
Though the film is titled Emergency, based on the darkest chapter in Free India and the biggest and mammoth blunder done by Indira Gandhi, it is no less than a biopic (that genre which flopped right and left last year!) as it details her life from childhood till her death, seven years after she lifted the emergency.
Surprisingly for Kangana Ranaut, an actor-director whose political ideology and party affiliations are polar opposites to Indira Gandhi,...
Star Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Anupam Kher, Mahima Chaudhary, Shreyas Talpade, Milind Soman & others
Director: Kangana Ranaut
Emergency Movie Review(Photo Credit – YouTube)
What’s Good: No political vested interest but a balanced yet incisive look at India’s most controversial prime minister.
What’s Bad: An episodic feeling in parts.
Loo Break: Certainly not!
Watch or Not?: Yes, it is edu-tainment for all.
Language: Hindi
Available On: Theatrical release
Runtime: 148 Minutes
User Rating:
Though the film is titled Emergency, based on the darkest chapter in Free India and the biggest and mammoth blunder done by Indira Gandhi, it is no less than a biopic (that genre which flopped right and left last year!) as it details her life from childhood till her death, seven years after she lifted the emergency.
Surprisingly for Kangana Ranaut, an actor-director whose political ideology and party affiliations are polar opposites to Indira Gandhi,...
- 1/17/2025
- by Rajiv Vijayakar
- KoiMoi
Hyderabad, Dec 28: Actor Darshan Pandya who himself is a good looking television actor, believes that looks matter a lot in television industry. He was in Ahmedabad recently. The actor debuted in serials with the daily soap on Zee TV channel “Aapki Antara”. And recently he was seen playing the character named Vineet in Sony TV channel’s show “Kya Huaa Tera Vaada”.
Darshan’s parents and sibling stay at Ahmedabad and that’s why he visited the city. While he was there, he got the chance to watch a film and also had food in some good restaurants in the city. In his professional world Darshan’s part in “Kya Huaa Tera Vaada”.
Darshan’s parents and sibling stay at Ahmedabad and that’s why he visited the city. While he was there, he got the chance to watch a film and also had food in some good restaurants in the city. In his professional world Darshan’s part in “Kya Huaa Tera Vaada”.
- 12/28/2012
- by Diksha Singh
- RealBollywood.com
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