March 22, 2024
Top film reviews of Ae Watan Mere Watan
Director: Kannan Iyer
Stars: Sara Ali Khan, Alexx O’Nell, Emraan Hashmi
India release date: March 21, 2024
Genre: Biography-drama
Language: Hindi
Duration: 2 hours, 13 mins
“Yet another Hindi period biopic that looks and sounds like a high-school cosplay production… naive reading of history.”
Rahul Desai, Film Companion
“The throwback to a time when the radio incited people rather than willed them into numb obedience, as well as the depiction of the Congress party as the country’s greatest hope rather than its biggest enemy, are unmistakable.”
Nandini Ramnath, Scroll
“Ae Watan Mere Watan‘s retro imagery isn’t limited to antiquated machinery, erstwhile trams and vintage cars; it also falls back on old fashioned plot tropes like the classic burkha disguise to escape the cops.
Bollywood biopics have a tendency to shuffle chronologies, romanticise or overstate the truth. Ae Watan Mere Watan isn’t above fictionalising Usha Mehta’s story or depicting the Brits like one-note grimacing geezers (Alexx O’Nell). Yet, before it slumps into a needless overdrive of dramatic excesses and stagy hysterics, there’s a sincere desire to capture the early 1940s.”
Rating: 3 stars | Full review
Sukanya Verma, Rediff
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