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Jal
Critic reviews and ratings
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...a work of remarkable resonance. The sheer visual mastery of Malik's directorial debut takes your breath away.
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The story scatters often like a fistful of sand, yet, for those seeking something different, go quench your thirst.
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It's poignant and powerful and I suggest, you take time out to watch this truly gripping fare.
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Girish showcases love, lust and thirst in a simply and beautifully woven story. If simple human emotions are your fill, you should certainly watch Jal.
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...a classic example of how to waste a wonderful concept.
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...a gorgeous looking, muddled film that leaves you unmoved.
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...it takes occasional flight, like a good, compelling dastan. But the film has an intermittently sparse and jam-packed screenplay
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...is constructed as the kind of expansive cinema that begged to be shot on pure film. Rather unfortunate, because Jal ends up as the kind of film that begged to be pure unadulterated cinema.
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Visually a winner, Jal fails to make a connect with the audience with its confusing story and mishmash of sub plots.
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...could've worked phenomenally well had the art of filmmaking merged well with the story of it.
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The director and cinematographer don’t seem to be on the same page. It seems they are selling the same product to two different consumers.
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Two vastly different films vie for space in Girish Malik’s Jal.
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The film has too many threads and then you are left with a feeling of it going nowhere, almost like miles of dessert area in the films which leads to no oasis.
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...takes an interesting premise and runs it comprehensively into the ground.
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This is a story that needed to be told. But it needed to be told better.
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The film is well shot but ends up looking like an advert for Kutchhi landscapes and costumes. The plot is overcooked, spilling over with too many threads.
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...would have made a much more powerful literary piece than it makes a film. As a story on celluloid, it is simply a dead bore.
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