{"id":7816,"date":"2018-09-16T15:08:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T19:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2018-09-16T15:08:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T19:08:52","slug":"movie-review-manmarziyaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/film\/2018\/09\/movie-review-manmarziyaan.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review : Manmarziyaan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rating : 4\/5 (Good)
\nGenre : Romance
\nYear : 2018
\nRunning time : 2 hours 36 minutes
\nDirector : Anurag Kashyap
\nCast : Abhishek Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Vicky Kaushal
\nKid rating : PG-15<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was looking forward to Manmarziyaan; you can probably tell from the featured Preview<\/a><\/strong>. This is director Anurag Kashyap’s second film of the year, the first being the fabulous Mukkabaaz<\/a><\/strong>. Kashyap’s films are generally a treasure – the guy knows what he is doing and he does it well. He excels in the crime genre (Gangs of Wasseypur<\/a> <\/strong>etc.) but lately his stories come threaded with a romantic angle. Manmarziyaan is of the latter genre.<\/p>\n

Manmarziyaan is literally “my wish” – “Man” = mind, “Marzi” = wish. In this case it is the wish of impetuous, high-strung and willful Rumi Bagga (Pannu). Rumi lives with her aunt and uncle and is in love with local good-for-nothing Vicky Sandhu (Kaushal). When the family discover him ensconced in her room one morning, she is threatened with marriage to good husband material Robbie Bhatia (Bachchan) . . .<\/p>\n

The story wasn’t hard to piece together from the teaser, but the way this film teetered and tottered I wasn’t quite sure that this was going to end the way I thought it was. Plus no guarantees with Kashyap; he often doesn’t go the crowd-pleasing route. I will say that the first half of Manmarziyaan is super tight – just no-getting-off-your-seat engrossing. In the second the film flags a bit, because we get to dealing with the the knobby, crumbly bits of life. Kashyap also takes a chance with this romance by painting his characters in shades of grey – there is no purely “good” character here except Robbie. I blame that characterization for the lack of feel-good fuzziness to the film’s ending. Or maybe that’s just me – my husband loved the film in it’s entirety.<\/p>\n

Manmarziyaan is a must-see also because of its stellar cast. Vicky Kaushik is fabulous just as expected – you have seen Masaan<\/a><\/strong>, haven’t you? But Taapsee is a revelation; she is really proving her mettle here. Abhishek Bachchan, not necessarily the best of actors, is just right as brooding, taciturn Robbie – his character reminded me of Ajay Devgan’s in the lovely “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam”. Even the supporting cast is just so spot-on, from Robbie’s mom to Rumi’s cousin sister.<\/p>\n

In Manmarziyaan I also see some of the quirks of “Dev D”<\/a><\/strong>, with the appearance of twins in random frames. The music is also kinda typical of Kashyap films – stems from the locale and genre of the film. My favorite was Darya – both film and uncut versions.<\/p>\n

Manmarziyaan is now my second favorite film of the year \ud83d\ude42 – do go see!<\/p>\n