Podcast | Kalank - Movie Reviews With RJ Stutee
Thirty-forty minutes of the film could have easily been edited out – at least the two unnecessary “item songs”.
The clothes are distractingly good . And the jewellery well that’s tantalisingly beautiful. As for all the radiance on screen thanks to the excessive gorgeousness brought on my Alia Bhat, Aditya Roy Kapoor and Varun Dhawan - it only gets better . Abhishek Varman’s Kalank is beautiful ! It’s visually stunning but devastatingly boring!
One could easily mistake the setting to be in contemporary fantasy land than a period drama it claims to be. It’s only thanks to the occasional “angrez ja rahe hain” and “mulk ka batwara” references that we keep reminding ourselves that it’s the 1940s. Azaadi is almost round the corner , but sadly at the cost of partition and more pain and destruction.
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