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31st October
Critic reviews and ratings
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...the final product is underwhelming and looks like a small-scale remake of the Hollywood film franchise, The Purge.
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...has its heart in the right place. What it lacks is genuine firepower. Despite the anger and anguish that drives it, it is unable to whip up urgency and force.
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Twists are predictable and secondary actors appear half prepared. Also, they keep shifting gears between Punjabi and Hindi.
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It's unfortunate that such a shamefully galling incident is clobbered by a stumbling narrative that lacks depth and moves in a single point agenda.
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While a film like 31st October does play an important role in jabbing at the Collective Conscience of a nation, Patil does no justice to the story with his lame helmsmanship and equally disappointing narrative.
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...is why fledgling inept filmmakers should stay away from history-invoking true stories, else such heinous acts might well be wiped out from the collective conscience for want of a skilled and able raconteur!
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Anyone watching this film will have to settle for its intentions alone. Everything else in this melodramatic overdose is genuinely embarrassing.
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We need more films on this dark chapter in Indian history, but not the likes of 31st October.
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...neither tells nor shows us anything we do not know.
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...maudlin, meaningless...
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...when a film attempts to dramatise the events in an amateurish way, the heart-wrenching awfulness of those events is lost. The audience feels no empathy in the fake emotions and the graphic blood and gore fails too.
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Thousands of Sikhs were slaughtered, raped and driven out of their homes in the riots of October-November 1984. Their story needs to be told with delicacy and intelligence, not with the sloppiness and hollowness that are the hallmark of 31st October.
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