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Pathaan is a pure Bollywood movie made for the masses. But its as generic of bollywood blockbuster as it gets. Its a wanna be mission impossible esque cinematic universe with big stars that misses what made those movies special.

The action is loud, flashy, over the top and not realistic by any means. But you are a fool if you went into this expecting realistic looking action. Its dumb action flick that is kinda fun. It has its entertaining moments and some funny dialog. Thats just about the things I like. SRK carries the film with his presence and Deepika Padukone is way too attractive to take eyes of her. John Abraham had some deadpan dialog delivery in serious situations that was amusing. While the actors carry the film their character writing is unfortunately way too one dimensional.

Maybe I just have seen too many movies to be entertained by this flick. An example is a tragic flashback backstory of a spy where a pregnant wife is tortured. Its a scene that made me giggle on how painfully generic this writing is to generate sympathy but at the same time making some of the rest of the audience gasp in visible disgust.

In the end this movie is the definition a generic Bollywood action blockbuster. After you come out of the theatre and think about some of the logistics, none of it makes sense and all the 'smart' characters come out looking stupid.

I've always not been a very big fan of such Bollywood blockbusters so my review is more on the negative side but if you enjoyed films such as Bang Bang, Ek Tha Tiger, Tiger Zinda Hai and War(2019) then I suppose you'll love this move. Its a movie for those who love SRK and Bollywood.

5/10.

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Manikarnika, the movie about the legendary queen of Jhansi is unfortunately a completely crap film. Its an utter failure from a narrative and direction standpoint with the writing feeling childish and one-dimensional.

There are no characters in this film and only caricatures of cliches. The British antagonists are portrayed as these absolutely evil monsters and its absolutely hilarious to see the ways this film makes you try and hate them. The attempts at emotional manipulation are painfully cringe-worthy and laughable.

The only positive thing I have to say about the film is that a couple of battle sequences were decent. Although the film is littered with poor CG, the action choreography was decent and had a few impressive shots. But you'll be better off watching them on YouTube than suffering through the whole film to get to them.

There appears to be a lot of praise for Kangana's performance. While its her screen presence that mostly carries the film, her acting boils down to nothing more than widening her eyes to glare angrily hence looking like a strong female. It appears that people are eating into the jingoistic attitude of this film to mistake for it for good filmmaking.