Azaad Movie Review: Abhishek failed to make a wonderful film on friendship between man and animal, Aman and Rasha are not ready yet
Azaad Movie Review: Abhishek failed to make a wonderful film on friendship between man and animal, Aman and Rasha are not ready yet
Azaad Movie Review: Abhishek failed to make a wonderful film on friendship between man and animal, Aman and Rasha are not ready yet If making a film is like making a sherbet, then if a little ‘Betaab’, a little ‘Mard’ and a pinch of ‘Lagaan’ is mixed in a bottle, then the film ‘Azaad’ made in the period of 1920 will be ready.
Two new stars are making their debut in Hindi cinema with the film ‘Azaad’, which breathes with dialogues written on the basis of the dialect created by K P Saxena for ‘Lagaan’ some 24 years ago.
One is Aman Devgan, whose mother Neelam may have been promised by his brother Ajay Devgan on Raksha Bandhan to make his nephew a hero and the other is Rasha Thadani (or Thadani) whose father Anil Thadani is the number one film distributor of the country and people are still crazy about the style of her mother Raveena Tandon.
Azaad Movie Review: Abhishek failed to make a wonderful film on friendship between man and animal, Aman and Rasha are not ready yet In the end credits of the film ‘Azad’, one name of Sanjay Bhardwaj is also seen, who was responsible for translating the script of the film. This means that this is not a script originally written in Hindi.
It is also known that the film ‘Azad’ has been shot in Madhya Pradesh, which is considered the heart of the country, and its story is also set in an area of independent India. Since there are rebels in the story, there are also trenches and ditches of Chambal and there is also a coincidence of calling the boy Moda and the girl Modi, it can be believed that this film tells the story of Bundelkhand.
‘Azad’ here is the name of the horse that was born before time. He was physically weak, so the British officer decided to kill him, but his hero Vikram Singh alias Thakur alias Sardar buys him with his hard-earned money. The friendship of both flourishes. Azad grows up to become a horse that is a Marwari but looks completely Arabic in its gait, stance, agility and agility.
Shyam Narayan Pandey has beautifully written in his poem how the coordination between the owner and his assistant should be, i.e. how the tuning should be. Before Rana’s eyes could turn, Chetak would turn..! Here the story begins with the story of this Chetak.
When the grandmother’s beloved grandson sees Azad, he keeps looking at him. He falls in love with this horse of the rebel chieftain. And, in the meantime, he also falls in love with the daughter of the landlord of the area. The film goes on trying to solve which love is it and which is attraction. Azad’s owner is a Thakur.
Earlier he was a farmer. Now he is a rebel. The name of the grandmother’s grandson is Govind. His girlfriend’s name could have been Radha, Rukmini or anything but the writers must have liked the fusion of Treta and Dwapar in the climax of the film with the race of Ardh Kumbh, so everyone together chose the landlord’s daughter, Janaki! The real essence of this film is hidden in the idea of considering Govind’s girlfriend as Janaki.
Azad drinks alcohol. He does not allow anyone other than Thakur to ride his horse. The rebels are such that as soon as night falls in 1920, they watch an item number set to 21st century music. And the hero is such that when he sees his girlfriend ‘Janaki’ for the first time in his dream, she sees him doing an item number.
I don’t remember if such a vulgar introduction of a new actress has been seen in any other Hindi film before. I kept remembering Raveena’s first film ‘Pathar Ke Phool’ during this time. And the makers of the film ‘Azad’ must have been remembering all the sensual songs like ‘Tip Tip Barsa Paani’ filmed on Raveena.
Otherwise, making Rasha sing ‘Oye Amma’ in her first film itself does not make sense according to the story of the film. Both Rasha and Aman have been launched before time, perhaps only because none of the other star kids who were launched recently are capable of carrying the entire film on the big screen on their own. Such a miracle was last seen in Hindi cinema in the year 2000 in the film ‘Kaho Naa Pyar Hai’.
Azaad Movie Review: Abhishek failed to make a wonderful film on friendship between man and animal, Aman and Rasha are not ready yet The film ‘Azad’ is Abhishek Kapoor’s seventh film as a director. But, among the Hindi cinema audience, he is still known as Twinkle Khanna’s ex-boyfriend Gattu. Gattu, who made this film with Ajay Devgan’s nephew, is actor Jeetendra’s nephew.
Jeetendra’s sister Madhubala’s son. The strong influence of western cinema can be clearly seen on Abhishek’s cinema. In ‘Azad’, he wants to create a coquettish heroine like ‘Betaab’ and ‘Mard’, but then he also gets attracted to Gauri of ‘Lagaan’. Abhishek seems quite confused about who is the hero of the film.
Ajay Devgan carries two-thirds of the film and then when it is Aman’s turn, he becomes a flop. The dialogues of the film are very awkward. It is surprising to know that this film, which wanders between Khari Boli, Awadhi mixed Bhojpuri and Bhojpuri mixed Bundelkhandi, also has a dialect coach.
Two films written by Ritesh Shah have hit the theatres simultaneously. In ‘Emergency’, his writing has been edited by ‘Bahubali’ writer K V Vijayendra Prasad himself. Here, Chandan Arora has tried to improve his writing, but it did not work.
The film is very weak at all three levels – story, screenplay and dialogue. Ajay Devgan’s character is the only character that seems to be the backbone of the film, but there is a problem there too. If this film had been made on his and Azad’s friendship, then it could have become a hit film of the new century like ‘Haathi Mere Saathi’ or ‘Teri Meherbaniyan’.
Thanks to Maneka Gandhi, that finally we can see films based on animals in Hindi films. Every Hindi film viewer will pray that the next such attempt is definitely successful. But, ‘Azad’ is a half-baked film and its direction, music and cinematography are equally half-baked and so is its direction, music and cinematography.
Azaad Movie Review: Abhishek failed to make a wonderful film on friendship between man and animal, Aman and Rasha are not ready yet The character of Piyush Mishra, who plays a landlord in the film, and the production design of Azad are the same, in other words, a desi soul trying to be impressive. The director did not understand Piyush’s desiness and in his attempt to be impressive, Piyush has failed on the big screen before.
One definitely feels like praising Diana Penty that after a long time she appeared on the big screen and has played the role of a lover imprisoned in the houses of landlords in a very decent manner.
In the role of a cruel landlord, Mohit Malik tried his best to become Dan Dhanoa of Amitabh Bachchan’s Coolie but failed. To understand what a character becomes after wearing a hunter, whip and long boots, one should see Pran’s villainous roles.
