I wish this movie could have stayed on just one plot that is
shuffling in so much confusion. With
such amazing art direction and powerful performances going a waste. I just regret that Vishal Bharadwaj has boxed
himself in to what he can do best and seems stuck on to tragic endings, and the
use of same actors. There was a certain amount of freshness with Omkara that
felt like a poetry on screen in some way but somehow this has now become trite
and boring. Rangoon is not a showcase of abstract art on screen, rather a
portrayal of distracting haze. Every movie needs a chore or central theme,
unlike a TV series that has the physical time to build a connection.
The story is based during the second world war and the
Indian National Movement. Julia(kangana)
is an Indian film actress who is the muse and the lover of Rusi Billimoria (A filmmaker and also an ardent British
supporter ). She wants marriage out of the relationship, which the already
married Rusi finds it hard to commit and being a Parsi. She is forced on to an
assignment to Rangoon by Rusi to please his British army friend Major General Harding, where she to perform for the British Indian army at war. Jamadar
Nawab Malik (Shahid Kapoor)is assigned as her body guard from her journey from Bombay to Rangoon. Julia and her entourage find
themselves in the middle of the war, due to sudden attacks by the Japanese. Malik saves Julia from the attacks and they escape in to the
forests, there is chemistry and so new found love for Julia in Jamadar Malik. Jamadar
Malik is actually an undercover INA(Indian National Army) agent and under an assignment
to get the ancestral sword of the King Surendra Pal smuggled so that INA can sell
it for funds to help them fight the British.
The movie has not done justice to the love story or the patriotism; it
is just pacing itself rhetorically with no direction and absolute predictability
including a tragic end which you are waiting to just get done with. For God’s
sake can someone tell me how did INA plan to sell a smuggled sword that easily
and to whom? are we missing logic here!
The cinematography is great and so is the art direction, but
if you care only so much , you could go watch this one. Great performances are
no good without a strong plot. I could be a fan of actors but well, it is time
wasted else. Kangana can jump really well, she has done some good stunts but this doesn't really work for me
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