Constantine_2018

This movie was very awful. The director seems had no mind set up on what he wanted to do. Movie starts as a comedy.. then becomes a Romance then a family drama. Mixing all these up is like mixing salt, sugar, vinegar and milk together. End result is BAD product.

• Shah Rukh Khan: Yet again he proves that he is totally non versatile actor. Once again he plays Raaj!! He is always SRK he never plays a character differently. His role has two dimension 1- The hyper SRK with his usual irritation when he wants to play a comic role and the shivering voice. 2- The OVERACTING romantic guy who tries desperately to make audiences cry. you will end laughing at the over acting he does rather than feeling pity for the character. One of his worst roles.

• Rani Mukherjee: She was nice at some parts when controlled and acted subtly. looked nice in the first half

• Music: Cheesy, bad, unnecessary. Songs were dumped here and there.

• Direction: TERRIBLE. Such directors should be sued for making such bad movies. Seriously doesn't Bollywood directors watch Hollywood Movies? or any international movies? I don't think so.

First thing if you have watched Silence of the Lambs (like I did) you will criticize this movie a lot. If you have not seen that movie you might think Sangharsh has something new to offer.

Preity Zinta has a bubbly personality but she could not live to the role which Jodi Foster played to perfection. Preity's fear, shock expressions were not good stand alone and bad compared to Foster's expressions.

Akshay Kumar is a nice actor but I feel he was not guided well in his role. It seems the director here did not have any clear vision of what kind of personality he would give him. sometimes he is calm other times he is jumping like a joker or screaming. It was really annoying. Anthony Hopkinz was a force of power in the original, calm scary personality. That first scene when Foster visits him in the jail and how he humiliates her is incredible. The Indian version is so bad. actually very very bad.

Ashutush Rana is creepy but his creep was not exploited. He was wasted in that role. they should have given him a creepy chilling atmosphere. Indian filmmakers do not know how to create such spooky atmosphere. In that scene where he wears a saree he reminded me of actress Silk Smitha. They look similar a bit specially the eyes.

I don't understand what are songs doing in such movie? they clearly kill the main theme and give lots of cheese to it.

Overall Sangharsh is not a good experience. Not in direction, acting, cinematography or even as a remake. The movie dies the same way Akshay Kumar's character dies while in the original Hannibal Lector lives and continues into other films and Silence of the Lambs will always remain one of the best chilling movies, while Sangharsh will be the shameful remake of it.

My final verdict is 40/100