MOHENJO DARO REVIEW

MOVIE REVIEW – MOHENJO DARO (2016)

Today we are here with a review of another movie released this Friday MOHENJO DARO by the Lagaan, Swadesh & Jodha Akbar fame director Ashutosh Gowariker. As its name suggests, the movie is set in the pre-historic era of Indus valley civilization and was one of the biggest challenge for the film maker to re-live the time of four centuries ago.

The movie opens in 2016 B.C. with a thrilling scene of hunting a crocodile by a group of youths lead by the lead character SARMAN (Hritik Roshan), who is an Indigo peasant living with his uncle and aunt in Amri village. After hearing big things about the town where they trade their goods, Sarman has a fascination of visiting Mohenjo Daro and convinces his uncle to send him there for trade. Then he visits the town of Mohenjo Daro which seems familiar to him.

There are much efforts to give the movie pre-historic look such as hand stitched clothes, wooden tyres of bullock cart, showing bronze statute found during excavation of Indus Valley, set up of town planning and division as per excavation, pottery, mention of towns of time such as Harrapa, Lothal, Dholavira, Kot-Diji, Amri and the like. Moreover, the filmmaker also mentions about the trade relations with different contemporary civilizations of the time. We are also shown Barter system in operation at the time for trade.

But still there is something missing which sync the whole things with that time.

What’s Good:

Hritik Roshan with his bronze look has tried to entertain us as ‘SARMAN’ and has probably the best thing in the film. The Bhakar-Zokar action scenes in the movie are good to watch and last flood scene is also entertaining to some extent.

Loop holes in the movie:

Movie uses the simple and repeated tale of foster parents, mistaken identity and good vs evil.

Love at first sight scenario, ‘Palat’ scene like in DDLJ as typical bollywood masala.

Overall the movie look like a costume drama and poor editing.

Star Peformance:-

Hrithik Roshan has done his job with perfection has given more than 100%. He delivers a decent performance in an already spoiled script. His action scenes with Bhakar-Zokar are good enough.

Pooja Hegde debuts with this film and but doesn’t have much to do other than a smiling face. As Chaani, she has done nothing other than the costume.

Kabir Bedi as Maham in his scary is ordinary in the movie.

Manish Chaudhary as priest and Chaani’s father does a decent job.

Final words:

Mohenjo Daro has failed in terms of both history and execution.

My ratings for this movie is 2 out of 5 stars.

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