Shaandaar is a fun film that is infused with great charm, which in turn is enhanced by director Bahl’s panache for a light touch, an attribute that was on full show in Queen. Shaandaar Review by Saibal Chatterjee on NDTVMovies
The climax of the film is a bit silly, but it lands up working in the favour of the film. The film starts lagging in its second half though but manages to save itself in time. Even though the film does not have a strong storyline, the humorous sequences keep the audiences engaged. He has also tackled issues such as adoption, family relationships and sacrifice, ‘compromised relationships’, insomnia and most importantly one’s body size and self-esteem issues due to the same, very smartly. Vikas has extracted good performances from most of his actors. It is a larger than life film, with funny and quirky characters (dominating grandmother, scheming mom etc.) and to a large extent, that does the trick for the film. The film is very high on glitz and glamour. SHAANDAAR has a fairy tale kind of feel to it with lots of VFX, animations, exotic UK locations and big expensive sets. The film’s director Vikas Bahl, whose last film was the National award winning QUEEN, makes a different kind of film this time. What doesn’t work, just doesn’t work and what works only works to the bare minimum.
There are many points in the movie which are sleep inducing but you tend to forgive the writer-director because of the apparent promise in the quirks of the movie. Vikas should have been responsible enough to not let it become weird. Shaandaar is a convulated, weird and frankly very boring tale for a movie which seemed so fresh and quirky. When you expect so much from a film, it gets hard for the director to deliver so much but the tragic thing about Shaandaar is that even if you have very few expectations from the movie, even then you are sure to be disappointed. First things first, Shaandaar is a disappointing film.
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