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Marjaavaan
Critic reviews and ratings
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...is a true blue masala entertainer.
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...has nothing to die for in its plotline and attitude to pay tribute to the escapist action packed masala’s since 70’s. but, it has certainly something to go for the diehard follower of Bollywood escapist action masala lovers who just love such happenings on screen and cannot live without it.
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...attempts to check all the boxes for an emotional action rollercoaster, but its dated execution doesn’t quite make the kill.
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Writer-director Milap Zaveri pulls in every 1980s Bollywood movie trope to present a film designed to elicit whistles from the frontbenchers.
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In this film, someone refers to a “dedh kilo ka dimaag” which is supposedly the most fierce weapon of all. If only it had been utilised, we wouldn’t have had to succumb to this crusade against better sense.
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...an 80s masala template, dance bars and remixes, infuriating rhyme schemes, and a pyro-maniacal obsession.
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...this illegitimate offspring of many B-grade items mating with each other is worse than C-grade. It is third-rate.
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If Marjaavaan is an attempt to turn Sidharth Malhotra into a bonafide massy action star then it fails to do so on all counts.
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...which is anything but a film to die for, writer-director Milap Milan Zaveri whips up a stale masala concoction that transports the audience right back to a Bollywood era gone by.
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Nothing can salvage the Marjaavaan mess -- not religious symbols tattooed on Malhotra's knuckles, the two-and-a-half hours of hysterically hamming people, the boisterous background score, the stale imagination, the burly giants, the phony rain, the cheap blood, the microwave romance, the laboured hostility, the incessant babbling on mohabbat and ibadat, not Arjit Singh yowling in a loop.
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If only the makers had spent more time on developing this speck of story, rather than those elaborate, yet ineffective song-and-dance sequences.
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If only Marjaavaan was the name of a time capsule whose main aim was to fill you in on everything that was tried, tested and failed from the Eighties. But no such luck...
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...morbidly manic melodrama, directed, or misdirected by Milap Zaveri...
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...is loud, overcooked and overdone.
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...bluster and boredom.
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...the regurgitation of this old content from a bygone era, appears surreal.
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I came away from Marjaavaan bored and exhausted. It’s literally a film with no perceivable merit, and one that begs two key questions: How did this film get made? And why are we being taken for a ride?
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...sucks the joy out of schlock. Stuck in the 80s, it is the throwback you don’t need.
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The film looks like someone sat down and made a bunch of post-its of “must-haves”, and then someone else slapped those post-its onto random pages of the screenplay.
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