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Ashdoc's movie review---Aiyaary
'Aiyaary' means chameleon like---capable of changing appearance with every situation . That's what I learnt in the film . But director Neeraj Pandey is no chameleon and his films cannot change in style or appearance . His films from 'A wednesday' to 'Baby' to 'Aiyaary' are all in the same format . But it's a format that that is now running dry of new ideas from Neeraj .
Sure , the dose of high nationalism is there . The army spit and polish is there too . Scenes of crisply dressed people looking serious about their intent whether good or bad are there too . High tech gadgetry and latest guns and devices gives you expectations of a taut thriller . Hardly any scene shows the grime and poverty of India ; everyone has a exceptionally high standard of living . But beneath the martial sounding music and high minded dialogues spouted from the mouth of the protagonists there is nothing . The manner in which the story has been presented is unduly prolonged and convoluted . A lot of unnecessary scenes shown to establish the strength of character of the heroes keep adding to the length of the film . And the film takes it's lesson of nationalism way too seriously but lacks substance . Photography is good as always and music is patriotically good . But other than Manoj Bajpayee the others don't act well . Siddharth Malhotra looks too delicately goodlooking for a soldier . Both Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher are wasted . Rakul Preet Singh is gorgeous as eye candy . But she is a misfit for a patriotic sounding film . Instead of what I was expecting ( tough soldiers killing enemies of the nation ) what I got to see was corruption in the army . Which is detected by a person ( Siddharth ) of a special team that is officially non existent but is for military intelligence . And he is so disillusioned by the corruption that he decides to desert the army and turn corrupt himself . But his superior ( Bajpayee ) is after him and chases him to England . But why does an arms dealer ( Anupam ) take enormous risk to help the superior ? And how come the girlfriend ( Rakul ) of the deserter get ready to give up everything and elope with him even though he has been fooling her by not even telling his real name ? Amazingly for such a clever person , his real name is revealed to her when his I card accidentally drops out of his wallet ; can it get more silly than that ? And the fact that exposure of the whole corruption hinges on the testimony of some obscure watchman ( Naseeruddin ) of a building is something that is unconvincing . Kumud Mishra the corrupt armyman looks like a buffoon rather than a villain and Adil Hussein's character looks like from Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible series of movies . Vikram Gokhale does look convincing as the upright army chief however . The only thing that is believable about the movie is a media desperate for TRPs . But it will take a lot more than that for a film to impress me . Verdict---Not impressed . Two stars out of five .
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Re: Ashdoc's movie review---Aiyaary
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Re: Ashdoc's movie review---Aiyaary
This is on Netflix.. recently added. Lagta hai Aiyaary ki tayyari theek nahi huyi.
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Re: Ashdoc's movie review---Aiyaary
ashdoc,
Again you wrote a wordy review.. Arey baba.. Write a shorter version also... Or as they call it on the net, a TLDR; version. Your long review is welcome and you can post it to a hundred different social media places, but here, the echarcha uniqueness is that its a very to the point and 'hatke' review. |
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I’m a big time skeptic.. i can’t digest scenes where these Bollywood choots do any kind of magic. The actress (telugu movie actress) takes that chikna actors(he’s coming in many movies, i donno his name) laptop.. and within half a minute buys something from flipkart using his credit card.. this is how smart hacker she is .. what a load of crap.
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BTW, is that hacking thing from this Aiyaari.
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Yeah, apparently she is a single woman who is a hacker, so the army guy tries to fool her and learns hacking from her and falls in love. Bugger forgets his wallet on table and attends a call, she sees his army ID card and comes to know he's no businessman but an army guy.. I was thinking she will turn out to be a JNU lady.. that's why she gets so upset.. wishful thinking on my part. ![]() whole movie is crap, illogical actually. Neeraj Pandey has run out of steam, now just reproducing hackneyed twists of his previous successes. |
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Re: Ashdoc's movie review---Aiyaary
Saw this movie on Netflix... it definitely does not bore you. Has a good pace and interesting story telling... what with plot twists and flashbacks. I liked the movie... will definitely watch this director's movies.
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![]() After reading the as usual boring un-echarcha like chewtiya review of ashdoc and not having seen the film (I mostly will never see this), here is how a review for echarcha is written -
ashdoc, learn to condense your own review and call it a TLDR; review version.... (Now look for what is TLDR; which is a internet social media term) |
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Baap re - aisa feedback deta hai code review ke baad apne junior bacchon ko ? i don't ever want to work for you ![]()
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But on echarcha, we dont necessarily want the same thing. I come here for getting our echarcha style content. I want to see a 'precis' version of the review. ashdoc is welcome to continue writing his lenghty wordy reviews... but I am asking him to write a short version too. Maybe it is very difficult to write to the point ![]() ![]() Look at this example |
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Re: Ashdoc's movie review---Aiyaary
And one more example
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Sutradharji, I actually liked your review on ZNMD.
I do like some of doc ji's reviews. sometimes i read his reviews after i see the movie to find out what i might have forgotten ![]()
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I think Sunit hit it.. in the age of microblogging, you need 280 character review that fits in a tweet or two at most. Everyone is writing those wordy reviews, need a handle which cuts right to the chase.
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