Eklavya - The Royal Mess

Eklavya is a movie which I wanted to see eagerly. I liked the Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Munnabhai Sequel movie. The star cast was impressive. I had high expectation.

I didn’t know that the movie was releasing at this point of time, as I didn’t see any posters, ads or any kind of promotion. When my friend suggested we go to this movie on yesterday, it came as a sweet surprise. The seats weren’t available for the evening show, so we settled for the night show at 10:15 PM.

This time we wanted to go to Cine City at the Al Ghurair City. Earlier we had already been to Cinemas atAl Ghurair City and at Ajman Citi Centre.

My Impressions
Let me get into my impression on the movie.. I didn’t like it. The movie was slow and had a sombre (but the ending which was uplifting). Don’t get me wrong. There’s hardly any flaws, no unwanted naach-ganna, no unwanted hero-bashing-villains scenes, not lengthy, great acting by the actors, good cinematography, great direction and all that jazz.

But somehow I didn’t like it! The movie didn’t have substance. No great story nor screenplay. It was all about vengeance.

The acting was good. All the lead actors are pros and do the best what they’re doing. I dunno, I liked Sanjay Dutt (Munnabhai forever!), Vidya Balan (shes’ fresh and gorgeous) and Saif Ali Khan in this movie. Others also acted well. Sanjay Dutt stood apart. Now this performance made me wait for Munnabhai Chale Amerika! Became a huge fan of him now!

Excellent Cinematography
I just have two words to sum up the cinematography in this movie: Simply Superb! The lightings (the palaces look stunning in nights), the colors (such colors!), costumes were good to watch.

The locales and the area where the movie was shot was stunning. The locales in Rajasthan, the palaces, all are good to see and an treat to watch. The photogrpahy and the cinematography is par excellence. The scene where Amitabh shows off his skills is perfectly shot. I must say that it’s one of the best cinematography that I have seen in a Bollywood.

‘One time watch’ or is it?
I don’t know why I didn’t like this movie as much. I must admit thats it’s one of the ‘finest’ and ‘class’ movie that I have seen from Bollywood. But still we can watch movie for the class only. There must be some substance in it.Anyway it’s not that bad also…definitely not bad than branding it less than a ‘one time watch’.

Having said that, I might watch it for one more time. Maybe this movie requires multiple viewing. I might catch it in DVD and see if I liked it.

Just go and see the movie with an open mind in the cinemas (Cinematography can be enjoyed in Cinemas only), you might just like it.

5.5/10

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