Samrat Prithviraj — My Review
After numerous bad experiences with Bollywood, I once again stepped into the theatres to watch Samrat Prithviraj. No surprise, this movie was bad and bull. The acting of Akshay Kumar looked very dull, and the only good thing about the flick was the duo of Sanjay Dutt and Sonu Sood. Here is my take on the movie -
For his trendy movie, Akshay Kumar straps at the armor placed on his maximum regal expression and hopes that the gown branch will do the rest. Heavy lies the pinnacle that wears the turban in Chandraprakash Dwivedi’s Samrat Prithviraj, primarily based totally at the legend of Rajput king Prithviraj Chauhan. Better suitable to gambling swaggering police officers or gum-baring comics, Kumar suits this era drama as snugly as Priyanka Chopra did the biopic of Manipuri boxer Mary Kom.
Prithviraj’s challengers lie each inside and past the borders of his empire. In remote Ghazni, Mohammed Ghori (Manav Vij) is itching to invade and pillage. Back home, Prithviraj has to conflict his destiny father-in-regulation Jaychand (Ashutosh Rana) for the hand of Jaychand’s daughter Sanyogita (Manushi Chillar).
One reason for the entire loss of a connection among the leads will be first-time actor Chhillar’s rawness. But it probably has extra to do with the 29-yr age hole among the actors, which refuses to be hidden via way of means of de-getting older outcomes on Akshay Kumar’s visage.
Elsewhere withinside the movie, Kumar struggles to be convincing and seems to put zero effort into all his scenes in the movie. It seems like he shot and finished the movie in a few weeks, cashed in his hefty cheque, and moved on to another movie.
The slow bits that join Prithviraj being handled sadistically via way of means of Ghori to the Rajput ruler placing up lively combat are best in brief enlivened via way of means of Sanjay Dutt as Prithviraj’s irreverent recommend Kaka Kanha. Dutt’s Kanha is the best person who seems like a flesh and blood individual as opposed to a man or woman plucked out of an epic text.
The shadow of Sanjay Leela Bhansali hangs over the scenes wherein the important thing actors and extras stand in ideal formation or at genuine angles to at least one another. But missing Bhansali’s felicity with spectacle and motion and not able to feature something new or exciting to what’s already widely understood approximately Prithviraj Chauhan, the movie attempts its first-class to be stately and impressive, similar to its miscast hero.
I would not recommend anyone to watch this movie, as it seems like the makers just randomly put together scenes because they were bored. Prithviraj should have been a masterpiece, where each individual should have put in maximum effort to make this a flick worth remembering. But what they made was a 4/10 below-average flick with nothing worth remembering.
