Reviews

It is a good show but am not able to comprehend how people can proclaim it to be the best thing since sliced bread after 2-3 very slow episodes. The pacing is extremely slow, it would be good to add some excitement. I call out paid reviewers on apple+ payroll. Probably the same lot who give over exaggerated Ted lasso reviews.

The good - excellent production value. The sets and sounds are very well done. Can Rebecca walk straight though - not understanding her strange hunched way to walking. Also I understand the hollywoodization of engineering but replacing compressor/blower blades like they did are a recipe for further problem - they need to be aligned and torqued properly. A lot of people pointed out but find the lack of elevators jarring.

Great treatment of the music, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy knock it out of the park. I wish the music bits was longer an the pieces more fleshed out but they were constrained by the format rather than their abilities. Shankar sang it! Mucho love.

The complaint i have is the writers normalize a very toxic patriarchal plot. The main Rathor guy is shown to be a real evil person, abandoning one wife and kid, forcing the woman (Mohini) who beat him to give up singing by evil machinations. Yet everyone gravitates around him with the young main character (Radhe) craving for his endorsement even after knowing that he was beyond bad to his mom. The mom relegated a loveless life deprived of her passion (singing) is okay with a lame apology from panditji. Hard to accept such a bad behavior to women has been normalized by the writers. He should have been ostracized by the family and Mohini should have been exalted to the position of the gharana teacher.

Shows like this normalizing poor behavior towards women are part of the problem. People do get influenced by TV and this is just unacceptable in this day and age.

It was a touch of brilliance in Season 1, well written good actors. Aaron Paul's role limited to making strange faces in a corner and getting jiggy with the beautiful Michelle Monaghan (those scenes though appreciated had no context or reason in the plot).

Come second season and as the focus shifts on shifty A-aron it just looses steam. A-aaron was well cast as an outsider but as the mainstay of the plot he just wasn't made for that role.

Now he is messing up my favorite Westworld too :(

Till episode 5-6 it seemed to be an incredible show but it went south in my opinion after that. I do not see why there was a hurry to close some timelines and then leave others for the next season. Guddu bhaiya character rules this show!

******Spoilers ahead***** 1. The role of the bahubali started with a lot of gravity but in the end he seemed to be a clueless person. If his wife could figure out his son's involvement in his assassination attempt why couldn't he? 2. Why didn't he try to discipline Guddu bhaiya after he had went to Jaunpur and offed shukla. 3. The Police angle was introduced way too late in the show. The "cool" police guy then spends the next two episode in a dusty office working up a strategy. A strategy which unravels in minutes in the end (way too abrupt ending) 4. Munna bhaiya was the arrogant idiot. Suddenly he comes on top after disappearing for many episdoes. I could go on and on. It seemed that the story writers ran out of ideas in the end and wanted to wrap it up somehow.

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This movie has some great points (the dance in the rain for example, Prabhus down under performance, puneet's first performance) but it has a lot of low points too: 1. Prabhu deva and Ganesh acharya are horrible actors, it was painful watching their drunk scenes and Prabhu struggle with the Hindi. 2. Salman was Dharmesh were underutilitised 3. Why wasn't Prince performing? 4. Puneet's end was too jarring and didn't fit in the flow of the movie 5. Large parts of the movie were copied from Hollywood movies but it is a Remo movie so plagrism is to be expected i guess.

it is brave to cast dancers in a mainstream movie and Remo and the producers deserver kudos but this largely missed the mark.

Strange mix in a movie. The acting of tabh bachan and sharmila was very good and the first half of the movie was a lot of fun (though substanceless). The story wasn't moving forward but was very humorous and the character development was nice. The concept of John Ab telling the movie was fresh. Interesting to see him doing the voice over instead of Ab, even though AB was in the movie.

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I couldn't see the second part of the movie coming. After spending so much time making the movie funny and getting the audience happy and laughing why would the director suddenly make the movie such a big tear jerker :P! His choice i guess. Abruptly without any warning the movie turned 180 degree into a sad fest :(!

Poor Sanjay Dutt got the short end in this movie - no character development or anything just a bit part role. How did he accept this role ? Also he looks very old now.

Good Points:

1. Only 2 hours long 2. No songs throwing the movie off track 3. Great acting by AB and sharmila 4. John A looks better after each movie - making of a superstar. His voice is awesome too.

Could not stand the blatant product placements though - there is one thing of showing a name brand but the actors were shown singing praises of reebok sweats, Elf motor oil, western union money transfer. Was shown in a cheap and crass way. Maybe the producers were not sure it will make money and thought they will recover money by putting adverts in the movie.

All in all the movie is not a bad one and can be seen once.