Powered by Blogger.

Son Of Sardaar: Bollywood new movie

Every time Vindoo Dara Singh who plays a part of an extended patriarchal Punjabi parivaar in the Sikh heartland,opens his mouth to speak, he is shushed down by others saying, 'Silencer lagaa'.

By God, at times you feel this loud, flamboyant, ostentatious yet—all right, admit it—sinfully engaging film should just pipe down.There is so much that's noisy about this film. And we aren't talking about Sandeep Chowta's over-accented background score
. Yet it's never unpleasant noise.

Son Of Sardaar takes us straightaway into the core of a family feud in Punjab where Sanjay Dutt, playing a goofy oddball of a Punjabi patriarch as only he can, wants our affable sardarji Ajay Devgn dead to fulfil an ancestral vendetta.

Let me warn you right away that the IQ level of every character in this film is way below average. Every man in Ashwani Dhir's world of belligerent blood baths is more daft than the previous. The women are slightly more intelligent, though our leading lady Sonakshi Sinha, photogenic as she is, has begun to get repetitive in her chirpiness. Juhi Chawla as the woman who waits 25 years to marry Sanjay Dutt and then finally tells him, 'Sorry, I don't want to build mymandap over the grave of another woman's love " is also intellectually challenged.

The smartest character in this smarter-than-the-characters film is played by Tanuja who as the matriarch feigns senility whenever it suits her. And the men around her make it easy. They are incorrigibly dumb, you see.

Love it or hate it, Son Of Sardaar is what a mainstream Hindi film is meant to be. A full-onmasala-maar-ke action-comedy with dollops drama dripping from the edges like wet cheese in a tasty pizza. This is a film which is not just smarter than its character but also much more intelligent than it actually seems.

Son Of Sardaar derives its feisty energy from the original Tamil film by S Rajamouli (Maryada Ramanna). The feudal plot is transposed from Madurai to Punjab. With that journey that the plot undertakes the film acquires a whole lot of cocky humour and a kind of eclectic warmth that keeps popping up most unexpectedly.

Providentially, Son Of Sardaar turns the vendetta saga on its head. The bloodshed between two warring families is converted into a crisp comic currency where the action speaks louder than the words. Director Ashwan Dhir, whose antecedents in television showup here in the episodic movement of the plot, sustains the action,comedy and drama in the same line of vision. Miraculously the plot moves steadily from mood to mood without seeming scattered. There is space even regular breaks for romance in the narration. Though the songs could have been avoided, the song breaks are pleasant.

Son Of Sadaar is nothing more than a sum-total of various breaks as the plot speeds its way through a Punjabi feudal saga. By the time the chaos is all sorted out, the narration collapses in an exhausted but triumphant heap.

21:19 | |

This entry was posted on 21:19 You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

 

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
Blogger Tips and TricksLatest Tips And TricksBlogger Tricks
1 Share/Bookmark

Labels

Blogger Tips and TricksLatest Tips And TricksBlogger Tricks