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Full Article here: https://gn24.ae/8f1bc532314c000 Dubai Cinema Timings: https://gulfnews.com/cinema-listing#cinema/movie/HO00007527 See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos  Malhotra plays the larger-than-life Raghu who is fostered by a morally bankrupt gangster (Nasser) and is raised to be his glorified henchman. Reams of bombastic dialogue about loyalty and love later, Raghu meets the angelic and non-verbal Zoya and falls in love with her. #Bollywood #FilmReview #OverTheTop

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00:00Raise your hand if you think star-crossed romances are out of style.

00:03Well, welcome to Marjawa, which is like the umpteenth Bollywood movie

00:07about two lovers who are not destined to be together.

00:14It was Amitabh Bachchan who brought the 80s angry young man into fashion.

00:19But there is Siddharth Malhotra who is this year's modern Casanova trying to attempt to do the same.

00:26But the only catch is he simply does not have the charisma

00:29or the gravitas of Mr. Bachchan to carry off this role.

00:32So Marjawa is basically very painful. I prefer a root canal to this procedure.

00:37It's a story as old as the hills.

00:39There are two lovers who meet. Why do they fall in love? We have no clue.

00:43Siddharth Malhotra plays an orphan, a boy from the streets of Mumbai.

00:47He is, you know, he's an orphan. He has nobody.

00:50And he's picked up from the street by this gangster,

00:54water mafia don played by Nasir.

00:57Now, South Indian star is trying to be very serious about it.

01:00But the sad part is the bombastic dialogues let them down.

01:03Here's a story that you've seen before in Bollywood films.

01:06I mean, this orphan who has this misplaced sense of loyalty towards his foster dad

01:13and then does all his wrongs on his behalf, basically kills for him

01:17and does basically his henchman.

01:20He's just a glorified henchman.

01:22And Siddharth Malhotra is in a fix when he falls in love.

01:25And the woman is mute and also very, very stupid, I must add.

01:29She sees things that she should not be seeing.

01:31There is Tara Sotaria who plays this role of Zoya.

01:34She plays this very innocent Kashmiri girl.

01:37I have to say she looks like a million dreams.

01:39But the only issue is that she's incredibly stupid in this movie.

01:43Why else would you trail after a bunch of goons doing some very unseemly things?

01:47You shouldn't be there in that place.

01:49But yet she follows him, tries to save him despite not having any backup.

01:54So it's very odd.

01:55This movie is an example of how people who have absolutely no brains,

01:59collective IQ of, let's say, of less than an average person

02:03coming together and trying to make a bombastic movie.

02:06It's larger than life.

02:07You have dialogues written by almost like a seven-year-old, you know, who's on a sugar high.

02:13They all seem to rhyme.

02:15And even the villain who's played by a very talented actor like Ritesh Deshmukh.

02:19He's a diminutive man in this.

02:21He plays a dwarf who has this daddy issue.

02:24He thinks his dad loves the orphan more than his own flesh and blood.

02:29And he has this, you know, set of complexes.

02:32This is a story about two grown-up men who simply should talk instead of exchanging bullets.

02:37We've seen so many romances where you see this man fall in love

02:40with the most angelic looking woman.

02:43They don't even have a conversation.

02:45It's always love at first sight and some flirting follows.

02:48And then he's ready to die for her.

02:50Somehow in this age of Tinder and speed dating,

02:54this kind of romances seem really archaic and outdated.

02:58In terms of performances, there's Siddharth Malhotra who tries very hard.

03:02I know they look very good.

03:03Both Siddharth, Tara Sutaria, Ritesh Deshmukh, they all look good on the screen.

03:08But at the end of the day, if you're let down by a bad storyline,

03:12a storyline that has been outdated and clunky dialogues that rhyme,

03:16then there's simply no saving grace in this film.

03:20Regarding the twists in the movie,

03:22this movie is one of the most predictable movies of 2019.

03:27You can sense the twists that are coming from a distance.

03:30And if everything is going wrong in the movie,

03:34the makers have found this novel idea to actually try to bring us back.

03:39It might work for some men or women.

03:41If you like the idea of women like Rakul Preet Singh

03:44gyrating to some racy number, there's a club song,

03:49then perhaps this is your thing.

03:50But for me, it just somehow did not stick.

03:53The songs sounded like it's been forced into the storyline about two warring brothers.

04:00In terms of the pace as well, it's painfully slow.

04:03You have to give it to Siddharth Malhotra for trying to get out of his comfort zone.

04:08Full marks to him for that.

04:09But just because you stepped out of the comfort zone

04:11does not mean that you're good at what you're doing.

04:13I'm going with a very generous 1.5 out of 5.

04:17Watch this only if you are a diehard fan.

04:19And by diehard, I actually mean you might die a small death while watching this movie.

04:24But if it's the love for Siddharth that's keeping you alive, then go for it.

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Marjaavaan review - A sloppy saga with beautiful people

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