Saturday, October 16, 2010

Aakrosh: A review


It has been ages since I even felt like reading something, let alone write. But finally, one good Indian Hindi cinema after ages made me write this.

Aakrosh is a serious and to-the-point movie which touches upon the honor killings issue which is fast growing into a painful menace in the rural parts of Northern India. The movie starts off in a rather interesting manner which is better seen than read! What you can know for the sake of comprehension of rest of the review is that a trio of medical students from Delhi go missing in the heartland of UP and under immense pressure from the media and fellow medicos, the government sends CBI officers Sidhant Chaturvedi(Akshaye Khanna*) and Pratap Kumar(Ajay Devgan*) for inquiry and solving the case. What follows next is also better seen than read. It might interest you to know that whatever that I have left to be seen is extremely smart and good.

There are a lot of things that work for Aakrosh and make it click. One of them has to be the performance of the cast: Ajay Devgan and Akshaye Khanna dazzle as the CBI officers heading the inquiry; Paresh Raval who also plays a key role in the movie is absolutely brilliant and so were the others. Direction by Priyadarshan who is well known for his mindless runaway comedies is good. But what really works for the movie is some amazing wicked humour sprinkled throughout the movie and its surprisingly sensible and realistic storyline. I am assuming the humour happened because somebody like Priyadarshan who isn't exactly used to making serious movies actually tried to make one! Anyways, these two make this otherwise ordinary fare, a very decent if not a very good watch. The action sequences are also extremely good and the dialogues catchy. But, this isn't to say the movie was absolutely flawless.

The editing could have been definitely better in many parts and the story did have a slightly sluggish pace at times. And there were also a couple of action scenes where it did go a little overboard and rudely reminded me that I was still watching a Hindi movie! Nonetheless, overlook these and you will have a great Hindi movie which might not exactly attain cult status like Dabaang but one which is worth a watch on a weekend after a very long time!

*My apologies for any mistakes in the spellings of the names in the cast. I didn't really bother to check them as they keep changing fortnightly with their celestial stars.

7 comments:

RG said...

i liked it a little (the film) too. wouldn't watch it again though
here is what my sister thought. just for another point of view: http://www.fullhyderabad.com/profile/movies/3846/2/aakrosh-movie-review#tabs

raman

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Unknown said...

i havent seen the movie but the story looks very similar to MISSISSIPPI BURNING ...
and @rg ... ur sister's rating is inconsistent with the review ..

vipin

Satanputr said...

@ thunderbolt: I suggest you watch the movie! It is not as Armageddonically cynical as written in the other review. It is a very honest movie. But then, some do find the truth more painful. Don't they?

Unknown said...

i thought the other review should have had a better rating .. anyways it is an opinion .. but from i heard scenes are lifted straight from mississippi burning ..

Chaithanya Y said...

Yess they infact are ripped from missisipi burning...
Priyadarsan cannot make a movie completely on his own...
It was a very good movie but it definitely needed some fine tuning to be done, in cinematography and editing.
A very good review indeed.

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