I only went for the movie as it was lauded by Ram Gopal Verma. Very few Indians make a good figther movie. And yes, Anurag Kashyap and tarantino hate themsleves. An astrologer could tell that this movie is scorpio loaded.
This is a pure male fantasy playing out. PRIVATE jets, cars, brotherly gangs. And the frustration of an urban male youth. Rich brat not doing rich brat things, fightinh for sister, taking over the father’s business and the romance. Whether it is an explicit assertion of Hindu identity, a KarwaChauth scene done well. Otherwise, we were stuck with Shah rukh and all that beta male nonsense… or melodrama by Bhansali, Barjatya, etc.
Shiv Mandirs of Kashmir, swastik steel is not the Hitler’s Hooked cross (taken from the Church)… reaffirming hindu symbolism.
It defies how conventional Indian cinema is.
The critics are caught with their pants down.
This will start a new trend of creativity
Yes, long movies are back.
My taste doesn’t involve mindless violence or the way it is shown in hollywood. It is vulgar and pedestrian. And yes, the character lacks depth as in Kabir Singh, the life is spiolt for a girl, and here for the father.
One movie where father-son is shown with finer contour is Ardh Satya where a father asks him to become a cop and join an alpha male profession, which leads into a quagmire of the nexus between politicans, gangsters ultimalety leading him to the brink. No spoilers. His own incorrputing idealism and reality are a clash.
One thing is for certain that the movie has changed how Indian movies are viewed.
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