When Hanuman (Devdatta G Nage) has mumps and looks more constipated than earnest.
When Ravan (Saif Ali Khan) doesn’t know whether he’s in Pirates Of The Caribbean with the grotesque all around or he’s still playing Uday Bhan Rathore who snarls and carves up chunks of meat.
When Raghav (or Ram by Prabhas) is spaced out in the jungle without an SS Rajamouli in the studio to show him how to even hold a bow and arrow stylishly.
When composers Atul-Ajay and BGM pair Sachit-Ankit cannot go beyond ‘Jai Shree Ram’ in a monotonously unimaginative score.
When Golden Lanka resembles a villain’s den and Sita (Kriti Sanon), Mandodari (Sonal Chauhan) and all other vital characters of the Ramayan are caricatures in a never-ending mayhem.
When the commotion on screen is darkly filmed with Ravan’s nine extra heads popping up occasionally like Jack-in-the-box for unintended laughter.
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When Manoj Muntashir Shukla, lately given to stagey oratory on the simplest of occasions, makes every dialogue theatrical and all the actors, poor things, mouth lines with no connect to the new gen.
For all the above, there’s only one culprit who must be caught by the collar: why oh why, Om Raut, did you choose to write, direct and retell the Ramayan, robbing it of its simplicity and burdening it with cinematic chaos? Especially when you didn’t have a new perspective on it?
For those who know the Ramayan, Om messes up what you already know with nothing original to add.
For those who don’t know the mythology, you’ll never know what Om’s trying to tell you coz he wastes a straightforward story of nobleness triumphing over bad intent by hoping that a bloated budget will dazzle the viewer. But honestly, in the unnecessary gush of 3D effects, when a snake comes out of the screen and looks into your face, you feel like patting it. Adipurush is that much of a laugh technically and in its storytelling. Give me Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan in TV format any day or Mahesh Bhatt’s dad Nanabhai’s Ram Rajya that starred Shobhana Samarth (Nutan and Tanuja’s mother and Kajol’s grandmom). These filmmakers of yore told a solid story. Precisely where millennium Om fails hopelessly.
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