Thursday, January 13, 2022

Atrangi Re - Movie

 A young girl is running away from a group of men chasing her in a jeep. She goes to the railway station and causes mayhem out there by breaking bottles etc and walks out coolly drinking the last one. Two medicos are in the railways station and watch her. One of them is Dhanush who is to be engaged in two days to his Dean's daughter. His friend is studying psychiatry and is always wrong. The girl's grandma wants her to get married to the first man she possibly can and the men of the house kidnap Dhanush and get him married off by force, using nitrous oxide to make him laugh. Then the two are set loose in a train to Delhi.



Why?

Dhanush takes her to his college and keeps her in his room and then she offers to come with him for his engagement. Oh, by the way, she keeps talking of her great love Sajjad Khan who is a magician. The presence of the Bihari girl in the Madurai household ends as expected - the girl finds out that Dhanush is already married and the marriage is cancelled. All we now need is for Sajjad to be eliminated for a great love story to occur.

One feels that Akshay Kumar's role was made much bigger than required. There is no reason for him to be around as much and it is clear that Dhanush is the hero. Akshay seems to have believed he is the hero when he is actually the her's father in law, and perhaps so did the director. 

In many ways, one of the most confused execution of what could have been a decent story. One wonders if the star got his way and the director let him. Wasted Dhanush and Sara Ali Khan completely with the execution.Could have been a wonderful love story otherwise. 

Avoid.

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