So you have heard the stories of heroes and warriors from your grandmother. How is this one different, which starts with once upon a Time?
Not much actually. But, it makes you still listen to it, watch it and feel it, the way you felt happy or sad when your grandmother told you stories. When the hero won, you felt happy and in his moment of despair, you sympathized with him. When there was a fight, you anticipated that he wins, you know that in all stories, heroes win, and you know that in this story also he will. But you still hope that he will win (even when you know it!!!). That’s what story telling is all about. Even when you know what will happen, when it does, you feel happy, you feel good.
With this one, Amir Khan has pulled off a coup. With a thin story line (like most American movies), but a good screen play, direction, music, movie goes along very nicely (just like any good Hollywood film). With relatively unknown starcast, and bit difficult language used in movie, it was a risk, but fairly calculated one, I must say, as most of the people who see Hindi movie are from north India, and language is fairly simple to understand for them.
Good parts:
Hero and the Crew, Bad Guy and supporting actress
Music,
acting,
Screenplay.
Bad parts:
Very thin story,
Length
Jerky scenes at times (only for seconds and visible in couple of frames only. You may notice them better on a 70MM Screen.)