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Raag Desh
Critic reviews and ratings
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This is one of the best Hindi films of the year.
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It is overpopulated with numbers, dates and facts and suddenly introduces relatives of the protagonists who have stories of their own. It’s death by information.
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...totally worth your time.
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If you are interested in knowing an intriguing and probing chapter from India's freedom struggle and have the required patience then Raag Desh is your ticket
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If this film feels slightly exhausting, even if exhilarating in parts, then that's because it is rather exhaustive in its exposition of facts. History fiends should jump at it right away.
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...is not a superlative film, particularly because of its treatment, editing and lack of a novel story. But what it excels at is brushing the dust off a forgotten chapter of the history textbooks in a way that we can revisit it, with equal amounts of pride and gratitude.
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...this film shows us a facet of freedom struggle not well known and is a great attempt at bringing history alive.
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...recreates an important chapter of Indian history. Best part is, it does so with great detail and authenticity.
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A war movie, a relatively lesser known independence story, a court room drama. An intense story yet not an 100% immersive experience.
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...blends details drawn from extensive research and some amount of fiction to rustle up a narrative that has enough drama to keep the audience engaged through its run time of two and a quarter hours.
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If you plan to watch it, do not go looking for Border or LOC Kargil. This one is more akin to Sankalp Reddy’s Telugu/Hindi The Ghazi Attack (2017), albeit even more under-played and also less swish on the production front. Raag Desh is a docu-drama, not a high-pitched weepie.
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...is an average film with an untold factual story. The film could have been much better plus in the era of commercial films, Raag Desh is a niche in its own genre.
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This one has a compelling story that allows one to look beyond semantics but half-heartedly fleshed out parallel tracks and jump cuts between the courtroom and the war zone, become much to bear.
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...the tension, excitement and exhilaration in a story so potent is diluted by a choppy narrative that is reminiscent of a soporific history class.
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...doesn’t meet the requirements of the historical epic in terms of its production values, but it does match the genre’s basic requirement: the only reason to travel back into the past is to ponder about the present.
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...has lofty ambition, but the stagey treatment lets it down.
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...a highly verbose and untidy production.
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