Jawan movie review: Shah Rukh Khan is the hero of Bharat that is India in this pop-masala banger – The Indian Express
Combining the in-your-face maximalism of director Atlee, and the come-get-me grizzled slit-eyed sexiness of star Shah Rukh Khan, Jawan is a pop-masala banger: iss kahani mein motion hai, emotion hai, hero hai, villain hai, aur naach-gaana hai, aur kya chahiye? Really, there’s extra: original as an unabashed massy entertainer, Jawan slips in robust political messaging at each alternative, making it a movie which could be very a lot of the second.
Anybody acquainted with the earlier smash-hits of Atlee, who understudied with Shankar, will know the way a lot he loves going huge, and giving us household dramas doused in sentiment. ‘Jawan’ has two SRKs for the value of 1, separated by thirty years in time, however united in single-minded Mera-Bharat-Mahaan patriotism: the older one is a military man referred to as Vikram Rathore who, after displaying exemplary valour within the face of sure loss of life, bides his time within the shadows; the youthful, who goes by the identify of Azad, is a Robin Hood sort with a factor for disguise, whose predominant job is to rob the wealthy to assist the poor.
To this finish, ‘Jawan’ has a veritable checklist of these hapless Indians that the ‘system’ has trampled upon: poverty-stricken farmers who commit suicide, the sick who die in badly-run authorities hospitals, the troopers who lose their lives due to defective weapons — the residents who’re powerless and helpless as a result of these in energy are corrupt and venal. There’s nothing new within the battle that the story units up; we’ve seen variations of it, and the vigilante-forced-into-taking-on-the-bad-guys in scores of flicks. What lifts ‘Jawan’s pushback in opposition to the ‘system’ is the cockiness, and knowingness with which it goes about the entire: Azad’s collaborators are a bunch of younger girls (Priyamani, Sanya Malhotra, amongst others) who assist him pull off a sequence of wholly-improbable-but-enjoyable heists. Their presence offers the plot an excuse to show the display screen over to girl-power, and for SRK to drawl (reminding you a little bit of Vijay in Atlee’s earlier ‘Bigil’, wherein he performs coach to an all-girl soccer group): are you prepared, women? It’s additionally a enjoyable throwback to one in every of SRK’s most beloved movies, ‘Chak De, India’. My first-day-first-day present erupted in hoots and cheers.
Each Nayanthara taking part in Azad’s love curiosity, and Deepika Padukone, paired reverse SRK Sr, maintain the attention when they’re round, the latter leaving extra impression than the previous. There’s additionally slightly woman, cutesy however candy, to purpose at our heart-strings. You possibly can see how a lot enjoyable the writers have needed to carry again sure names in different traditional SRK movies (Kaveri Amma from ‘Swades’), in addition to actors who spark nicely with him (each Priyamani and Deepika have been his ready companions in his earlier Southern sojourn in Rohit Shetty’s ‘Chennai Categorical’).
Vijay Sethupathi is the large unhealthy wolf right here, as a crooked arms dealer-cum-businessman, the sort of man whose ill-gotten good points powers governments (ooh, now who is that this character primarily based on?). He’s at all times wearing black, scowling and growling and being menacing, and in a few locations, does handle to go away a mark. However even Sethupathi is aware of that this movie is all about SRK, so in the remainder of it he appears as if he’s simply going via the paces.
After a kinetic, zingy first hour, the movie slumps in bits, particularly when it dives into the half housed in a girls’s jail, the place all inmates are very stylishly wearing pale inexperienced uniforms with nary a dirty nook to be seen, and the the Aristocracy begins turning into an excessive amount of deal with. A really younger lady ( Dogra) is made to look middle-aged. My eyes began glazing over on the colourless songs-and-dances: not one stays with you whenever you depart the theatre.
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However then comes the final act, wherein each SRK’s get collectively, and together with an enormous Bollywood star in a walk-on half taking part in an ‘I really like Onam’ officer-with-a-Malayali-wife, carry the entire thing to a boil. It entails, gulp, truckloads of stolen EVM machines, and a sequence which is jaw-dropping in its audacity, given our polarised instances, wherein a celebrity, so reviled in the previous couple of years, buoyed solely by the large success of him showing In and As ‘Pathaan’, wherein he reclaims his identification loud and proud, exhorts us to make use of that finger for voting in the fitting individual, ignoring jaat-paat-and-dharm. And that one additionally bought the viewers clapping.
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Sure, as anticipated, the very meta ‘baap-beta’ line introduced the home down. However Shah Rukh Khan extends that message, from his household to his watan, turning into the jawan-hero of India that’s Bharat, and Bharat that’s India.
Jawan film director – Atlee
Jawan film forged – Shah Rukh Khan, Vijay Sethupathi, Nayanthara, Priyamani, Sanya Malhotra, Deepika Padukone, Sunil Grover, Riddhi Dogra
Jawan film ranking – 3.5 stars
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