VISHWAROOP- My View and Review

 

 

 

 

‘Vishwaroopam’ or Vishwaroop in Hindi is Kamal Haasan’s attempt to bring forth a different story and satisfy his never say die hunger of playing different characters. His past work from Appu raja, to Hey Ram, to Chachi 420 to forgettable Dashavtar and now to Vishwaroop is clear evidence that Mr. Hasaan keeps on toying with one idea diagonally opposite to the other. Regardless of box office results, Mr Hasaan keeps his fans engaged in one film after the other.

This time Kamal Haasan has spun a story which is globally relevant, around jihad, America and bombing. The Film has a smart narrative as it begins as a story about a disinterested wife and gradually turns into the ‘bigger cause’ of Jihad and America. It does not tell us why a jihadi becomes a jihadi, what it does is projects Jihad as a business run by religious fanatics. The narrative keeps on moving back and forth which keeps the viewer’s interest alive and in the end the disinterest of the wife turns into love for the husband. Vishwaroop has an interesting cast (Shekhar kapoor in his little role but a svelte style.)

 

The Characters in the film speak in either Pashto or English whenever required with subtitles in Hindi does good to the film, otherwise in Bollywood movies we see Indian actors either faking accent or foreign actors trying to speak in Hindi. The camera work by Sanu Varghese is good with tight editing by Mahesh Narayanan. The locations are also good and look authentic. The movie does revolve around kamal hasaan and his ptryal of a gay dancer, Jehaadi and RAW agent but you can't really blame the man as he single handily drives the film ( like any other Jackie Chan or Sylvester Stallone movie, they too pump their money in the film.)

Rahul Bose plays his evil best ably supported by other characters. Jaideep Ahlawat get a good screen length after small roles in films like ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ and little known ‘Chittagong’.

 

Vishwaroop is little slow with almost nil in the comic content (except little bit in the scenes in beginning) and an average background score (except in a scene where the tension is nicely depicted by south Indian classical music) and tends to drag itself in places. The action thriller of this taste ought to be an edge of the seat thriller. The film is watchable for its Hollywoodish content and bollywoodish execution. Maybe we see a better, sleeker and tighter version in Vishwaroop 2 ! 

 

 

Score Stack Up:-

 

+ For narrative, Plot, locations, Performances, Camerawork ( for being Kamal Hassan's Fan)

-  For Being slow, For No good Music

 

Box Office, Paisa Vasool Rating:- 3 out of 5

Tanmay's Rating : 3 out of 5

 

 

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Scores Classifications- 

 

(5)  Very Good, Must Watch 

(4)    Good, Should Watch 

(3)   Not Bad ;

(2)  One Time Watch ; 

(1)   On your own risk ;