Veer-Zaara Review

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Pratik Singh
  • 4/5

This is a movie featuring Ghosts and made by Ghosts. People who have exhausted their quota of ideas and more importantly their USP's .

Directed by Yash Chopra . Featuring Shahrukh Khan in a Romantic role, Priety Zinta as a bubbly wench and Rani Mukherji as the conscientious damsel.

A weak plot. A screenplay steeped in uncommon drudgery and marked by mundane catch lines.

Performances below par. Shahrukh is not at all impressive in what he does. This I say, because Shahrukh 's entire career is pivoted on similar roles , where he has done better.

Preity Zinta looks pale and flabby. No charisma on her face. Her acting is BAD.

Rani Mukherji,she has done justice to her role. She's not great but not all that Bad.

The supporting cast is impressive on paper. Amitabh Bachchan, Anupam Kher,Divya Dutta, Hema Malini,Manoj Bajpai, Boman Irani, Kiron Kher....oh my God! It reminds me of "The Longest Day".

In the movie however only a few of them perform. Hema Malini, to begin with is perhaps the widest chink in the entire cast. The director was wise enough to have made her character a South Indian woman married to a Punjabi, otherwise she would have found herself in the shoes of Katrina Kaif in an undubbed performance.

Manoj Bajpai 's character is a character devoid of reasonableness and logic. Vindictive without reason and malignant without cause. He couldn't have done any better than he did in the movie to play this role.

Kiron Kher redoes her type cast role of a concerned mother sans the usual jocular vibes.

Amitabh Bachchan does a great job of playing a true Rural Punjabi Patriarch showcasing brilliant linguistic skills and body language. For me the best actor in the movie.

Anupam Kher was also good as the cold and conniving lawyer who is also arrogant .

Boman Sahab. He is a fine actor. I like him.

The show stealer however was Aditya Chopra for giving us an extremely ordinary story, poor screenplay and top it all the shallow, amateurish poem (devoid of rhyme and meter) recited by Shahrukh in a most unconvincing manner at the end of the movie.

All in all a movie which was made to celebrate the director's historic career , but which hardly leaves a good impression.

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