Mohenjo Daro Review

The trailers had indicated that this would be a bad film, I went it with ZERO expectations, yet within minutes they managed to shatter those as well and somehow make a worse film.

This film has nothing going on for it.

The plot is nonexistent, the story is weak and the setting of 2016 BC is supposed to keep us entertained. Sadly it doesn’t work.

Hrithik Roshan the yesteryear’s superstar is re-doing his tired old clichés from Krrish, where is lonely and wants to go to the big city but his guardians won’t allow him.

This part seems ridiculously similar to 1977’s Star Wars. Sadly, the similarities end there.

The first few minutes of the film is in spoken in an ancient language long forgotten, then they show that they are translating it for us to hindi. But then they use a strange hindi language with weird words which is frustrating to understand and makes NO SENSE!

I can’t say anything good about this film, so here are some of the things I jotted down while seeing the film.

1. The reveal of mohejodaro is uninspired and basically piss poor. No sense of grandeur or amazement.

2. The heroine is introduced and WHAT THE HECK! there is a flower pot on HER HEAD! WHY!

3. What the FUCK are they saying? Weird sounding dialogs, makes NO SENSE!

4. First song, WTF am I seeing here? WHY! O WHY!

5. Ok, THIS Mohejodaro title track is a CRIME against humanity!

6. Suddenly the songs’ lyrics have modern hindi diction. They are not using those weird words!

7. Some extras come in, they are belly dancing and they have eyebrows which literally look like dead rats are struck on their foreheads!

8. The damn stupid headdress which looks like a flower pot has PLASTIC flowers! WHY!

9. Second song… just kill me now! Oh the torture!

10. Hrithik just literally existed stage left after the song, it was unintentionally hilarious!

11.Ok, now people are waking out of the movie!

12. Suddenly we have a gladiator ripoff. Bet they all chant his name at the end!

13. Everyone is chanting his name – TOLD YA!

There is maybe 1 or 2 good scenes, like the one where hrithik calms some horses down and the ending (spoilers) flood scene.

This film is so uninspiring, the cinematography is beyond pathetic. I have to see Bahubali once more just to wash this bad taste out of my mouth!

The direction is not worth mentioning and the editing is lax.

I am not saying that it didn’t take hundreds, if not thousands of people, a LONG time and a lot of hard work to make this film. But then why waste everyone’s time and the audience’s money.

There is nothing entertaining about this film.

I predicted the ending scene by scene and narrated the same to my friend. That’s the epitome of cliché!

Rating: 3.5/10. Pathetic.

P.S : To make this film good, they should have started in 2016 AD. With Hirthik as an archeologist, as he goes into the dig, he keeps remembering/interpreting the past and its story.

Imagine an scene where we see a wide shot of the excavation site and that transforms into a fully living and breathing city.

Mohejo daro 2016 BC… (that would have been something to see…)

Every place he goes in the dig, tells him the story of the past, though this, we discover what his ancestor (also played by Hrithik) had done to save the people of this great city.

In the end the entire city is wiped out in a flood (that's what happens in the movie). The ancestral hirthik stands up and sees the lake where his city was, transition to the present with the archaeologist is standing there with a tear in his eye. Poetic voice over can end the film and the audiences would have clapped. Instead of just leaving by the droves mid film...