There accept been path-breaking films on the plight of children. Accouchement afflicted by poverty/conflict. Films like THE CHILDREN OF HEAVEN, TURTLES CAN FLY and CITY OF GOD accept larboard an enduring consequence on millions of minds. These films, says administrator Piyush Jha, accept aswell been his inspiration.
Jha's SIKANDAR looks at the battle in Kashmir, after demography sides.
That's because the focus is on a kid who becomes a assurance in a alarming bold played by politicians and terrorists. One has generally apprehend in newspapers and aswell watched television programs that highlight the actuality that kids are getting acclimated in wars waged in the name of religion. SIKANDAR tackles this affair as well.
SIKANDAR has a refreshingly altered adventure to tell, aback capacity like the one actuality accept rarely been told on the Hindi awning before. But how one wishes the cine would do amends to the thought. For, the blur holds your absorption in $.25 and spurts, not in totality. Also, the acme to this adventure avalanche abbreviate of expectations.
In a nutshell, SIKANDAR had the abeyant to bang a chord, but it leaves your duke midway.
Sikandar [Parzaan Dastur] is a 14-year-old buck in Kashmir. Ever aback his parents were dead by militants 10 years back, he has lived with his aunt and uncle, in a baby boondocks in Kashmir.
One day, on his way home from a academy football match, Sikandar finds a gun lying on the path. Despite admonishments by his newly-made academy friend, the 14-year-old Nasreen [Ayesha Kapur], Sikandar picks up the gun and appropriately begins a adventure into the darker ancillary of his nature. The quiet yet able Nasreen becomes Sikandar's censor keeper. She tries to dissuade him from giving in to the allurement of the gun.
However, all is not what it seems. Sikandar gets affected added and added in situations above his control. As band aloft band unravels, it becomes bright that Sikandar is the innocent victim in a bold getting played out amid the militants, the accord bartering politicians and the religious active of the little Kashmiri town.
You apprehend that SIKANDAR is not the accepted blur on agitation at the actual outset, if a kid bliss a football and a bomb explodes. The adventure takes off the moment Parzaan finds a gun and the sequences thereafter accumulate the eyewitness involved, abnormally the scenes amid Parzaan and Arunoday Singh [the terrorist]. The point at which the aboriginal bisected ends makes you attending advanced to the additional hour, but it doesn't.
The botheration is that the adventure al of a sudden moves into the suspense-thriller brand and that robs the blur of its originality. Even afore you're told who the culprit is, you've estimated it already acknowledgment to the been-there-seen-that affectionate of situations that this blur relies on.
Sure, a few sequences do leave an appulse - like the one if a bang occurs during the pre-climax - but the cine isn't adamant at this juncture. To adduce an instance, the army administrator easily a gun to Sikandar to avenge his father's death. Now this looks implausible. Also, the politician's babe has a change of affection in the end, which is so difficult to absorb.
What administrator Piyush Jha needs to be complimented for presenting the admirers the breathtaking adorableness of Kashmir. The DOP presents some beauteous visuals of Kashmir to the eyewitness and that's something you backpack aback home.
Parzaan acts absolutely well, but Ayesha doesn't work. Also, the emphasis is harder to ignore. Madhavan does a appropriate job. Sanjay Suri underplays his allotment beautifully. This is amidst his finest works. Arunoday Singh makes an absorbing debut. Also, he's adored with a able personality to backpack off this role.
On the whole, SIKANDAR doesn't absolutely hit the goal. |
