Rangoon

Rangoon

Rangoon. Indians in World War II, and a love triangle.

Starring:  Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Kangana Ranaut
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Distributor: Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
Language: Hindi
Classification: U/A
Release date: Feb 25, 2017
Genre: Action, drama, history
Mins: 167 mins

 

Vinay Shukla“Vishal Bharadwaj is truly in a league of his own. His wit and sense of humour are unique… Meticulous details; re-creation of the era, war scenes are impeccable.”

Vinay Shukla | Writer-director (FacebookIMDB)

 

Lajan Joseph - sm“True auteur Mr. Bhardwaj. The best we have. Always telling new stories. Always stepping out of the comfort zone.”

Lajan Joseph Oommen | Scriptwriter (FacebookIMDB)

 

Karan Bali“Rangoon – dull, plodding wannabe epic romance in the midst of WW2. A total khichdi of too many issues that fail to come together coherently. Gets more and more ridiculous in 2nd half, even laughable at times. Manages to create the period in broad strokes but not in its detailing. A shockingly disappointing film from Vishal Bhardwaj.”

Karan Bali | docu filmmaker (Facebook | IMDB)

 

“First and foremost, a film about loyalty… Like any ambitious film, Rangoon raises a lot of questions. The problem, however, is not with the questions, but how they’re raised.”

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Tanul Thakur, The Wire
“Attenborough’s ‘Gandhi’ (1982) is inarguably the most popular account of India between 1915 and ’47, and there is barely a proper mention of Bose in that masterpiece. Does this movie redress that wrong? Perhaps.”

Rating: THREE stars | Full review

Mayank Shekhar, Mid-day

 

“Bhardwaj abandons his hallmark whimsicality and relevant effrontery for big scale chaos and bloated showmanship.”

Rating: TWO stars | Full review

Sukanya Verma, Rediff
“Neither wholly satisfying nor capable of being dismissed entirely.”

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Nandini Ramnath, Scroll

 

“If there is one takeaway from Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon, it is this: that there is something terribly foolish about a film industry which fails to fully tap the vast reserves of female talent at its disposal.”

Rating: TWO AND A HALF stars | Full review

Anna MM Vetticad, First Post
“To make a slice of history come alive on screen, you need all-round conviction — of setting, plot, and characters.”

Rating: ONE AND A HALF stars | Full review

Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express

 

Having exorcised the great, dark tragedies, Vishal Bhardwaj seems to be in a jolly good mood. From his latest outing it looks like he’s in a blissful state of postpartum contentedness, in the mood to frolic, have some fun, be silly and, well, a bit lame.

Rating: THREE stars | Full review

Suparna Sharma
“A period drama that blasts off with an impressive, immersive war sequence that wouldn’t be out of place in something by Christopher Nolan. It is also, by some degree, his most accessible film, one that leans less on metaphor and symbolism and more directly on plot.”

Rating: FOUR stars | Full review

Raja Sen, Rediff

 

“Little girls of the ’90s had many silver-screen heroes. And none of them were women. I mean, nobody told them that heroes could be women as well. Not the elders in the family… Not the newspapers… Not the theatres they’d pass by on their way to school… Not most of the ‘hit’ films they were taken to watch or devoured on TV, where women—beautiful, glorious creatures—sang, danced, cried, pined and waited to be saved by the big, brave hero… In Rangoon, Kangana Ranaut does all of that—sings, dances, pines, cries and runs into the arms of the man like she couldn’t breathe if she didn’t—and yet, she is the hero. With that, she makes the world of Bollywood, for many little girls of the ’90s, seem just a little less wrong.”

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Piyasree Dasgupta, Huffington Post

 

 

 

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