Ashutosh Gowriker’s Mohenjadaro is nothing but Agneepath set in the B.C. century. Courtesy of this thought lies with my Is the B.C. Version Impressive? – It is not.
friend Sachin and I couldn’t stop putting it down here. The similarities of the plot are evident if you have seen Agneepath featuring the same actor Hrithik Roshan who plays Sarman in the B.C version Mohenjadaro.
The scale of Magnum if captured rightly on the celluloid; making you relive the history is where the success factor of such a film lies apart from few core things; like language, music, dialogues, sets and an engaging script. Does Mohenjodaro has it all? As a matter of fact, it has none.
The film opens in the 2016 B.C. with the nail biting adventurous and thrilling scene where their series of small boats are attacked by Crocodiles. Heroically Hrithik fights them all and the glimpse of it was seen in the trailer. The village he belongs to enjoy his victory; the language is not so familiar though it is very close to Sindhi soon the director takes a closer shot of someone’s mouth uttering dialogues and the language turns out to be Hindi making a path for us to understand. The Hindi’s is very much today’s Hindi with todays dialogues that aren’t so impressive forget anything new – Arunodhay Singh who is impressive in a negative role has some poor regular lines to utter to the heroine “Tum meri nahi toh kisi aur ki bhi nahi” Come-on it’s a film set in B.C. The Herione Pooja Hegde has nothing much to do than nod her head and wear a Peacock Mukut. She has brilliant lines; each time she opens her mouth all you would remember is “Baaabaaa” “Sarmannnn”. So stero-type our ace director has turned. With watching Bajirao Mastani a Historical love story in the recent past at the magnum of performances, this lacks what it takes to make the periodical film. If someone can define the Magnum on celluloid it is Sanjay Leela Bhansali – but let’s keep him aside as this is about Mohenjodaro.
Music – Of course we have A.R. Rahman oops sorry I don’t recall any good number other than the one which was forced to put into our ears that whispers “Mohen-Jo Mohen-Jo Mohenjo-Daro”. Dialogues – who cares – as they hardly exist. Action – If you have seen Amitabh Bachchan’s Ganga Jamuna Saraswati where Amitabh Carries a Crocodile on his shoulder; the film has similar arena, feel when Hrithik post interval is challenged to fight two human demons. It’s a scene very much similar the said movie, here Kabir Bedi replaces Amrish Puri.
Performances Kabir Bedi – Yea kind of bearable, pretty justified with what he had in his meaty role. Arunodhay Singh – Impressive. Hrithik Roshan – Nothing new; neither we witnessed any brilliance in his dancing or say acting; His Akbar was far better sketched role; this one is a one down. His A.D. version of Agneepath was better; the eyes spoke revenge. Sorry I moved out of Mohenjodaro again, apologies can’t help as one really can’t stick long with Mohenjodaro.
Ashutosh Gowriker’s Jodha Akbar was a brilliant work of cinema and so was Lagaan. Mohenjodaro is passable.
Soon the makers will be heard hooting “MohenJo MohenJo MohenjoDaro”.