Dobaaraa Review — Book Your Tickets Now

Shaurya Sharma
2 min readAug 19, 2022

Another Friday brings the premiere of a new thriller directed by Anurag Kashyap and starring Tapsee Pannu. I have been captivated by the Dobaaraa trailer’s storyline and have been eagerly awaiting the film’s release ever since. Here is my review of the movie.

The cleverly lensed Dobaaraa is dependably interesting and compelling even when it isn’t thrilling. It combines the effects of a broken space-time continuum with the much simpler rules of a crime thriller. Even when things aren’t always easy, Anurag Kashyap gets a lot of things right.

The filmmaker takes the storyline from Oriol Paulo’s Adriana Ugarte and Alvaro Morte starrer Mirage and teases an entirely new beast out of it by using deft techniques and relying on Taapsee Pannu for a key role.

Dobaaraa, which is set in a suburb of Pune, mostly follows the plot of Mirage but does not blindly copy the source material. In Kashyap’s colourful adaptation, which is informed with flair, vigour, and an unique directorial imprimatur, people are pitted against one another in puzzling mind games amid a rainstorm of terrifyingly destructive proportions.

Dobaaraa, which has strong atmospherics and notable support from Sylvester Fonseca’s cinematography, relies more on continuous fascination than it does on fear. It is a clever reworking that captures the audience’s interest right away and commands mesmerised attention. It teases and fascinates in turn with its dynamic balancing of time, space, and reality. It is sprightly, fashionable, and quick on its feet.

Unreserved admiration should be given to Taapsee Pannu for her natural ease in the surreal movie. In addition to being stuck between two periods in time that are decades apart, the character she portrays is also suddenly thrust into a realm where what she has always known to be accurate is distorted beyond recognition. She doesn’t lose a beat in expressing the confusion that results.

Dobaaraa centres on unhappy marriagDobaraocenterssbands, and domestic abusers. The movie does not aim to delve deeply into important moral issues, despite the fact that it deals with human frailties when faced with the temptations of the body and the overwhelming power of nature.

All the technical aspects of the movie on fleek. The direction is apt, theare story is interesting, the script is crisp, and the background music is also great. Overall, the movie comes together to give you a brilliant cinema experience that Bollywood has been missing since a long time now.

Should you wforthis a movie? Absolutely yes! Movies like Dobaaraa should be welcomed with open arms by the audience, if we want to change in the Bollywood industry. Do you always criticize Bollywood for not trying something new and experimenting? Well, Dobaaraa is that experiment. Go watch it!

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Shaurya Sharma

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