Star cast: emraan hashmi, prachi desai, gautam gulati, kunaal roy kapur, nargis fakhri, lara dutta
Director: tony d’souza
So the movie is quiet good well its a true story of a cricketer the makers slap a huge warning towards the begining, claiming it is not a biopic and that cinematic liberties have been one of the most fickle attempts, shaming the cricketing legend too.
A lenghty run- time, corny dialogues and a lackluster act by the lead cast
Loo break: yes especially for the never ending courtroom scenes.
Azhar is a film that glorifies Azharuddin as a underdog, for a fan of cricket or Azhar, it comes as a huge dissappointment due to mediocrity of the content. You could give this one a miss.
Born into a Hyderabafi family, a young Mahommad Azharuddin is convinced by his Nanajaan taht he will become a great cricketer some day and play 100 tests matches for team india.
Soon, Azhar turns out to be a brilliant batsman and India’s high run-scorer thanks to his talent and a young captaion too.once his profession life is on track, Azhar’s family decides, its time for the lad to get hitched. he meet naureen in an arrange marriage set up. The two soon tie the knot and his cricketing career soaring.the frame starts to play with his head and he gets dazzled by the riches. On a tour to London, he meets the hindi cinema’s famed beauty, Azhar unintentionally falls for sangeeta.The due fall in love and he soon announced it to the world by dedicating her his man of the match award.
Then starts the discource of his fall as he meets a bookie named MK sharma and is pulled into a match fixing. Further and 8 battle at the court challenging the decision over life ban on cricket is what we see.Azhar could easily be said to be one of the weakest films when it comes to portraying a real life character on screen. The writers have a great subject at hand and there is so much to explore but what they stick to is an overly commercialyl approach.Filled with extremly corny dialogues that makes little efforts to convey anything sensible, there is less to look out for in this script. It also seems more like, pieces from Azhar’s life have been simply weaved together in a montage to make us sympathize with him and his situation back then.
The courtroom scenes are written poorly with snooty dialogues assinged to lara dutta’s character that make the entire sequence highly fictitious. Side characters are gravely under-developed as opposed to their importance in Azhar’s real life.With an explosive content at hand, the film fails to cash in on it to make it a juicier or a realistic affair.It is a shame that in a country like india where cricket is religion, a film Azhar leaves you with nothing for its former captain.Over stretched court-room scenes, make you feel like it was a 8 year old ordeal after the judgement is passes.One keeps waiting for the film to end but there is just so much hotch potch added in the second half that the run- time keeps increasing.Over all the whole movie is quiet good.
This is my review on Azhar hope that u like it thanks.