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Aamir – The Movie

One of the most excellent, hard-hitting, vivid and real movies I have watched in recent times – Aamir, is an eye opener. I had chosen to watch this movie over the much hyped Sarkar Raj, for the sole reason that it was under Anurag Kashyap’s banner, whose earlier movie No Smoking was the first genre defying movie of Bollywood I had seen and reviewed.

Though Aamir comes across as a movie full of emotions; those of helplessness, despair, and the choices we have to make in difficult times, it also brings about a bigger question – the one of destiny. The tagline of the film – “Kaun kehta hai… aadmi apni kismat khud likhta hai?“, though sounds lame at first, but after you watch the movie, it forces you to think. The choices made by you and others in your surroundings – is that all that affects your life or do choices made by your civilisation as a whole affect you as an individual? Whatever may be the answer to that, I am still an existentialist and a firm atheist.

On the acting front, Rajeev Khandelwal has done an absolutely outstanding job. He doesn’t seem at all like a newcomer, but like the A-league actors of Bollywood – Aamir Khan, SRK. A natural/born actor, and he deserves to be appreciated.

The script, though, I feel is flawed and stretched unnecessarily. Also the timing – the points where the meaning of the whole movie is conveyed, are not spread out evenly. So the script is lacking, and some of the audience was starting to lose interest midway. The background score was OK, the music was limited to 2 tracks, which were well placed and suited the mood.

I would give the movie an 8 on 10, lesser than what I had expected from a movie by Anurag Kashyap (The director is Raj Kumar Gupta, Kashyap is the creative producer).

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