The first hour of Kedarnath boasts nice visuals of misty mountain-tops and sunlit creeks, but most of it is disfigured by the simulated muddy water and poor cloudbursts that aspire for horror-film gloom.
Screenwriter Kanika Dhillon slow bleeds the romance and holds off the disaster till the very end, which, until the horrendous flood effects arrive, appears to be a smart script choice. Yet, no real ground is ever broken - either by the lovers or the fence-sitting adults, such as Mukku’s mom - and it takes the great climactic wash to furiously level things out. (“Things can be resolved with talk,” reasons a character when faced by a charging mob). This film, despite the occasional violence, seems insistent on the power of words in dispelling communal tension. Later, when ribbed about his religion at a town-hall meeting, he flares up with rage but lets diplomacy prevail. In the lovely opening scene, we see Mansoor win over a crabby old woman by affecting a Bhojpuri accent and clicking selfies. He is a competent leading man who understands the underdog arc well. Sushant, for his part, braves backaches and slipped discs to shoulder this difficult film. In a scene where Mansoor gets beaten up by goons and Mukku is asked to intervene, she frankly and guiltlessly says, “If he croaks so easily, how will he put up ahead?” There's also near-constant emphasis on Mukku’s rebellious nature: so much so that she gashes a finger when asked to serve pakodas and spills delicious-looking chai - glass after glass - as part of a stupid romantic gag. Sara plays Mukku, younger daughter of a local pandit in Kedarnath, who falls in love with Sushant Singh Rajput’s Mansoor, a Muslim porter lugging pilgrims to the temple gate. It's the lines themselves, though, that let her down.
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since her performance does hint at a willingness to learn: there’s a reassuring earnestness to the way she measures out her movements and waits before responding to a co-actor’s lines (the first sign of a willing performer). She did earn some miles with her pre-release interviews - which were witty, smart, refreshing - but her acting skills still signal a long climb ahead. The anticipation around her debut wasn't entirely unjustified. The backdrop - of the 2013 North Indian floods - could have been substantial, were it not so brutally pulled down by sloppy CGI and a rushed treatment.īut let's talk about Sara Ali Khan. The word ‘bagawat’ is flung around, tailed closely by the ultimate movie ultimatum: "Either burn me, or forget her.” Some timeliness can be claimed in light of present-day intolerance (the film was accused of promoting ‘love jihad’ by expected factions), but the tedium and predictability make it hard to root for the characters, or feel their pain.
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Kedarnath, directed by Abhishek Kapoor, is full of old whines in a new bottle: Muslim boy loves Hindu girl parents disagree.
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