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Chakravyuh
Critic reviews and ratings
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...is a hard film to make and marks must be given to Jha for sticking his neck out. Staying true to the subject, he gives us an insight into uncomfortable truths happening in our backyard.
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...an engaging drama.
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An engaging, must-be-heard story told with great balance. Yet, half-hearted focus on relationships distracts from the main story.
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...has absolute clarity about the political stance it is taking and makes no awkward attempts to seem balanced just for the heck of it.
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Kudos to Jha for dealing with such a sensitive topic without taking sides.
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It's the immersing story, masterful storytelling by Prakash Jha, superb camerawork by Sachin Krishna and the efficient cast that makes the film worthwhile.
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Jha has once again woven fictional elements and characters with real incidents and people to present a film that touches the right chords.
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Watch this film for it’s lucid, dramatic presentation of a nation’s problems.
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...a well intentioned and finely crafted film, which shies away from taking any stand.
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While the film does indulge itself in melodrama, it chooses to place the onus on the actors, who turn in arguably career-best performances.
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...gets mired by the Bollywood commercial retrains. A little more in-depth portrayal couldve worked better for the film.
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...is, ultimately, a victim of typical Bollywood excesses. A little more subtlety, a little less jingoism, and it might have worked better.
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...is nothing more than an average action flick in the garb of relevant cinema where socio-politico turmoil is nothing more than a prop and gun-toting militants in uniforms and bandanas hollering 'Lal Salaam' fill up the frames.
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...gets mired by the commercial lurings. Despite a good intent, the film fails to make and impact.
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...this endeavour could have been far better.
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Prakash Jha’s filmography has largely centred on films related to social issues. In the recent times though, they have taken a template-like tone that is informed with resounding drama and distinctly Bollywoodian elements that sets it in a unique formulaic zone. Chakravyuh does nothing more than become yet another peg in this genre.
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...has a sense of authenticity in its location and milieu, but Jha’s simplifications and reliance on melodrama fail to underscore them. His tone is serious and sombre-not a fortuitous combination-forcing its narrative upon its viewer.
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...successfully uses this socially relevant subject and weaves it with a run of the mill story. That predictability is the only and the major problem with this gritty film.
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...packaged in a trying-to-be-palatable-to-all plot, which works intermittently in the first half, and not too well in the stretched second.
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...the film is a victim of poor writing and loose story-telling. It's a film that could have left a lasting impression but fails to live up to the hype.
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...simplistic to a fault.
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...is one of those films that makes us wish Jha had treated this like an arthouse film and taken the effort to humanise every character in a way we would empathise with their motivations and kept it real. But the way it plays out, it’s been done to death.
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A bit like Deewar, a lot like Namak Haraam. With Jha one would have expected a lot more complexity than what’s delivered.
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A clumsy account of one of the most knotty socio-political issues confronting India today.
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For a while now, Jha has been coming off like a more high-minded clone of Madhur Bhandarkar, picking up a hot topic and embedding his research in creaky subplots.
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