I normally avoid the big bannered and hyped films because they always tend to disappoint by not matching up to my expectations. But the family was in town and we decided to watch a movie and hey, what better than Kalki 2998.
The movie is about an unborn child who will counter the evil forces of the world. Clearly the unborn child must be in danger from the evil forces. In this case the evil forces are themselves somehow making the child through some scientific act and therefore are not in a hurry to kill it - they don't seem to realise that the unborn child can kill them. Anyway we have a protector from 6000 years ago who has been cursed with no death after the Mahabharata war and in his act of penitence vows to protect that unborn child. Mind you, this chap was perhaps the biggest villain of the Mahabharata which is why he ended up with this curse of no death (which surprisingly many rich men want - to live forever). Coming up as his ally in this war or in this project of protecting the unborn child is another character who seems to have been reincarnated from a hero from the Kaurava's side. Now these two spend much time fighting one another leaving the unborn child and its mother to be rescued by many others who die in the process. In the end they somehow fight off the evil forces and we can assume they will team up now. By the time one is getting ready to find out how these two will counter the diabolical moves of this villain whose sole desire seems to be to live forever (the formula for which our man Ashwathama already has), the three hour film with many digressions, comes to an end with the happy hope that one will go back to find out more.
Only time will tell!
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