<p>Wazir<br />Hindi (U/A) ¬¬<br />Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari and Manav Kaul<br />Director: Bejoy Nambiar<br /><br /></p>.<p>You have a handful of flowers, freshly plucked from the garden and a yarn to make a garland you have yearned for. The weaving starts but the director totally weaves his way through a predictable snarl-up of screenplay to nowhere.<br /><br />Threatened by white collar people linked to terrorism, a grieving father who lost his daughter befriends a police officer with similar but fresh pain. An excellent plot.<br />I could have used words like “makes use of” instead of “befriends” but then it would have been a spoiler alert.<br /><br />They play chess, share their histories and shayeris, drink vodka and start a friendship in which both can live and die for each other.<br /><br />Although the movie starts with a Badlapur type of feel, it neither has a Sriram Raghavan on the director’s seat nor a Nawazuddin to keep you at the edge of your seat till the end. Rather you find a handicapped man (seated) at the wheel.<br /><br />Trailers are deceiving and often big-banner films flop for the choice of a director. With debacles like David and Shaitan under his belt, Bejoy has misused gems like Farhan and Manav. Let’s not talk about BigB’s choice of another wrong movie here.<br /><br />If you like Vidhu Vinod Chopra movies, this is certainly not a Mission Kashmir or 3 Idiots or close to a Parinda.<br /><br />Even after roping in musical stalwart Shantanu Moitra, the producer had more faith in Ankit Tiwari, whose nasal songs are no different. <br /><br />With nothing extraordinary from the cinematographer to the dialogue writer and a bad director to lead, you would definitely feel the main characters should not have chosen this movie at all.<br /><br />P.S: Now, just imagine, what this movie could have been if it was The Farhan Akhtar both behind and in front of the camera.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Wazir<br />Hindi (U/A) ¬¬<br />Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari and Manav Kaul<br />Director: Bejoy Nambiar<br /><br /></p>.<p>You have a handful of flowers, freshly plucked from the garden and a yarn to make a garland you have yearned for. The weaving starts but the director totally weaves his way through a predictable snarl-up of screenplay to nowhere.<br /><br />Threatened by white collar people linked to terrorism, a grieving father who lost his daughter befriends a police officer with similar but fresh pain. An excellent plot.<br />I could have used words like “makes use of” instead of “befriends” but then it would have been a spoiler alert.<br /><br />They play chess, share their histories and shayeris, drink vodka and start a friendship in which both can live and die for each other.<br /><br />Although the movie starts with a Badlapur type of feel, it neither has a Sriram Raghavan on the director’s seat nor a Nawazuddin to keep you at the edge of your seat till the end. Rather you find a handicapped man (seated) at the wheel.<br /><br />Trailers are deceiving and often big-banner films flop for the choice of a director. With debacles like David and Shaitan under his belt, Bejoy has misused gems like Farhan and Manav. Let’s not talk about BigB’s choice of another wrong movie here.<br /><br />If you like Vidhu Vinod Chopra movies, this is certainly not a Mission Kashmir or 3 Idiots or close to a Parinda.<br /><br />Even after roping in musical stalwart Shantanu Moitra, the producer had more faith in Ankit Tiwari, whose nasal songs are no different. <br /><br />With nothing extraordinary from the cinematographer to the dialogue writer and a bad director to lead, you would definitely feel the main characters should not have chosen this movie at all.<br /><br />P.S: Now, just imagine, what this movie could have been if it was The Farhan Akhtar both behind and in front of the camera.<br /><br /></p>
