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Irada
Critic reviews and ratings
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It scores because its intentions are commendable and its message hits home.
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...advocates solutions that ordinary viewers will be hard-pressed to replicate, but its concerns are timely, its character sketches memorable, and its empathy unmistakable.
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...it’s the age of theme-driven films and Irada has a strong one.
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If intention is everything, you may feel kindly towards Irada. Unfortunately when it comes to a celluloid experience, story-telling is prime. Here, the film falters.
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The details though aren't entertained. Many plot points seem like convenient ways to push the drama to the two-hour mark of run-time.
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Films with social causes at its core work, but only if they manage to resonate with you in some way. This one doesn’t, at least not to the degree you’d like it to.
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The bonding between Naseeruddin Shah and Arshad Warsi is also enjoyable but the director fails in possessing the skill to weave this individual goodness into a fine film and that's makes it meandering.
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Full marks to the ambition, but this hotch-potch of a movie is good reminder that compelling movies are made of much more than a hit pair and a good idea.
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...the film has a noble irada. But the laboured lecture that it ends up becoming ensures the message is spelt out repeatedly until it becomes a tiresome affair.
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Blame it on the director for Irada's sloppy editing, the film fails to hold your undivided attention.
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The film rapidly deteriorates when the stars begin to showboat and then goes on to fall down in a pile of shambles.
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For a film that had a subject as relevant as that of Udta Punjab, this movie turns out to be a major let down.
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...leaves you with a renewed appreciation for burning-issue masala movies like Kaththi and Kodi, which, for all their flaws, at least remember to entertain.
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...a haphazardly put together incoherent film that makes you wonder about issue based films and how they are made in our country.
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...gives nothing beyond caricatures, leaving aside the real issue.
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Little purpose is served though if you zero in on a crucial theme but do not breathe life into it. Irada (meaning: intent) is an opportunity lost to draw mass attention to a pressing concern.
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