Is this really the best we can do???!!!
Just back from watching 'Kalki 2898 AD'.
I am still reeling from all the noise that permeated the movie.
I went thinking that one would be able to watch a tale well told, interweaving the Mahabharata with Sci Fi.
What I found was a mish mash of the Mahabharata, Harry Potter, some Ramayana like visuals, a bit from "The Handmaid's Tale" and a lot of Marvel Comic type stuff.
The first half was quite slow. The world is a battered place. The Ganga has dried up. Kashi is where everybody lives because it is the last viable city on Earth. Things happen that are not logically connected.
Prabhas is charming but at times his cavalier attitude did seem out of place.
Mr Bachchan does not make his appearance until 1.5 hours of the movie is over. He is Ashwatthama, all old, battered and in bandages (suggesting the passage of time as per Shri Krishna's curse, I guess)and reminds one of Obi-Wan-Kenobi.
Deepika is SUM80 which later gets translated to 'Sumati'. She is carrying the saviour (Kalki) and has to be protected.
Kamalahasan plays the role of "Supreme Yaskin" which, to me, looked like Voldemort when he was seeking to be rejuvenated with the horcruxes.
With all this going, I will say one thing - I stayed in my seat. I was curious to know what happened to SUM80. After all, the hope of the world was within her.
There are many sequences that were not logically in sequence but in a Marvel movie like this, one can always attribute some sense to what happened.
I wish the beauty of the epic had been brought out a little more clearly and the story woven around that. Can't be too difficult, I should think.
I get the feeling that this turned into a pot boiler because these days pot boilers are money spinners.
Should you go and watch? Well if you have three and a half hours with nothing better to do, then you may want to take a turn at the theatre.
I am still reeling from all the noise that permeated the movie.
I went thinking that one would be able to watch a tale well told, interweaving the Mahabharata with Sci Fi.
What I found was a mish mash of the Mahabharata, Harry Potter, some Ramayana like visuals, a bit from "The Handmaid's Tale" and a lot of Marvel Comic type stuff.
The first half was quite slow. The world is a battered place. The Ganga has dried up. Kashi is where everybody lives because it is the last viable city on Earth. Things happen that are not logically connected.
Prabhas is charming but at times his cavalier attitude did seem out of place.
Mr Bachchan does not make his appearance until 1.5 hours of the movie is over. He is Ashwatthama, all old, battered and in bandages (suggesting the passage of time as per Shri Krishna's curse, I guess)and reminds one of Obi-Wan-Kenobi.
Deepika is SUM80 which later gets translated to 'Sumati'. She is carrying the saviour (Kalki) and has to be protected.
Kamalahasan plays the role of "Supreme Yaskin" which, to me, looked like Voldemort when he was seeking to be rejuvenated with the horcruxes.
With all this going, I will say one thing - I stayed in my seat. I was curious to know what happened to SUM80. After all, the hope of the world was within her.
There are many sequences that were not logically in sequence but in a Marvel movie like this, one can always attribute some sense to what happened.
I wish the beauty of the epic had been brought out a little more clearly and the story woven around that. Can't be too difficult, I should think.
I get the feeling that this turned into a pot boiler because these days pot boilers are money spinners.
Should you go and watch? Well if you have three and a half hours with nothing better to do, then you may want to take a turn at the theatre.
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- Jun 30, 2024