Basically A Tamil mass film starring SRK
Jawan may be shot mainly in Hindi, but it is a Tamil mass film in all its essence. Atlee is known for basically copying ideas from other famous movies and making them in his own style for his favourite star. Jawan is an amalgamation of many such movies, including his own films. But the core is the man against system idea which was popularized in this particular form by director Shankar and since then it has been embraced by South Indian movies. The first half had a few interesting stuff going on but it was kinda boring me. I've heard about how Atlee dismisses normal logic from how people talk about his films like Bigil which is even more apparent here. Knowing this and being an SRK fan, I was expecting stuff in the film that defies logic. Overall it didn't affect me too much but the first half had a lot of such things that continuously happened that made it hard to enjoy it. Not using logic to be entertained is fine but the film has too much story in it and most of it doesn't have any logic. It's following too many formula-driven story ideas at once without properly integrating them. But once the interval block action sequence started the movie turned around for me. From there onwards it was a very entertaining movie and if you can watch it with a great audience it will be a great experience.
But it is to be noted that, there's so much story here, but no real characters. The characters are not at all written with depth but everyone is given certain visual flairs to make it very appealing. Nayanthara's character felt so weak but the way she is presented visually through the action scenes kind of makes you forget that.
Some dialogues and scenes kind of felt like a personal message from SRK which seamlessly blends with this kind of film. Maybe that's why he wanted to do such a south-style film.
All in all, I thought it was an average to okay film because I am an SRK fan and enjoyed watching his action scenes and song sequences in the theatre.
If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, this is an Onam movie 😇
But it is to be noted that, there's so much story here, but no real characters. The characters are not at all written with depth but everyone is given certain visual flairs to make it very appealing. Nayanthara's character felt so weak but the way she is presented visually through the action scenes kind of makes you forget that.
Some dialogues and scenes kind of felt like a personal message from SRK which seamlessly blends with this kind of film. Maybe that's why he wanted to do such a south-style film.
All in all, I thought it was an average to okay film because I am an SRK fan and enjoyed watching his action scenes and song sequences in the theatre.
If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, this is an Onam movie 😇
- Jithindurden
- Sep 6, 2023