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Wazir movie review: There’s enough to watch in the Big B, Farhan Akhtar film despite its flaws

Wazir movie review: Watching Farhan Akhtar and Amitabh Bachchan joust and manoeuver around each other is this film’s high point.

By: Shubhra Gupta| New Delhi|

Updated: January 9, 2016 9: 54 am

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Wazir movie review: There are many good things about ‘Wazir’. First off, this is a film that’s backed by writing. Look, look, a plot.

There are many good things about ‘Wazir’. First off, this is a film that’s backed by writing. Look, look, a plot. Hallelujah. Such a relief after so many plotless wonders masquerading as movies. Next, it brings back the actor in Amitabh Bachchan. And third, it respects our time, keeping things ticking at just over a neat 1.5 hours.

‘Wazir’ is about the coming together of two wounded men, very different in age and temperament, for a mutual purpose. Danish Ali( Farhan Akhtar) is recovering, with excruciating slowness, from a deeply personal tragedy; his wife Ruhana( Aditi Rao Hydari) is suffering too, in her own solitary corner. He meets up with the wheelchair-bound Pandit Omkarnath Dhar( Amitabh Bachchan), and gets sucked into the latter’s world, which is full of light and darkness, the contradictions arising from