Thursday, May 30, 2013

Movie Review : Aurangzeb

So here I am writing a movie review after ages and that too for a movie which anybody would hardly care to read about, except perhaps for some Arjun Kapoor fans, who must have been delighted(read overwhelmed) by on-screen presence of two of them to soothe (?) their eyes, which while writing itself seem to be a very conjectural theory, just like the plot of the movie.

So coming to the moral of the story first, which is so suffused with frequent reminder that you come out of the theater trying hard to recall the sins of your past that brought you to this day. ‘Apnon ki keemat sapnon se zyada hoti hai’(Relationships are more valuable than dreams). Alright, so now you know the big secret. The movie revolves around this big message where the bad guys are violating the GREAT thought while good guys are ready to live and die by these words.

Here’s how the story goes. A cop(Prithviraj Sukumaran as Arya) decides to clear blotch off his father’s name, who was also an officer(Anupam Kher), suspended for killing a Gangster’s love interest and one of their twins during an encounter.

Interestingly, they were not dead and hence predictably, to bring down the empire of the Gangster Yashwardhan(Jackie Shroff), the not-so-dead look-alike, Vijay, of his spoilt abusive son Ajay(Arjun Kapoor), is sent as spy. Arya is supported by DCP Ravikant(Rishi Kapoor) in the quest.

Meanwhile, there are a lot of other hooligans trying to take over the empire of the Gangster. Vijay was intending to pull down Yashwardhan at first but then realized he is not so bad after all. So, he begins to work for his Dad’s best interests while Arya gets all furious over this Hriday-parivartan(change of heart). And oh, I forgot to mention so forgetful a character of the heroine Sasha Aaga(debutant). She is the only one who was able to discover the ‘substitution’ during some intimate moments between the two.

Arya discovers a lot of mess and corruption created by the Police department, after a loss within the family and then decides to stand by the Rightful and the worthy in whole drama, which ends abruptly, much to the audience relief and Atul Sabharwal’s (director) mercy.

There was not much for the female cast to perform as there was hardly anything for them. Arjun Kapoor has an electrifying mischievous smile that is leveraged well. Prithviraj scores high on apt character display along with just about right emotions and his deep voice.