{"id":1456,"date":"2018-05-12T05:16:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T23:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telugoos.com\/?p=962"},"modified":"2021-08-05T14:27:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T14:27:50","slug":"mehabooba-review-puri-war-love-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/12\/mehabooba-review-puri-war-love-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehabooba Review: Puri in \u2018War\u2019 with Love Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">QUICK SCAN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-963 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/akash-neha-e1526101840488.jpg?resize=427%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/akash-neha-e1526101840488.jpg?w=427&amp;ssl=1 427w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/akash-neha-e1526101840488.jpg?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/>Rating:<\/strong><\/span> <strong>1.5\/5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">First Impression<\/span>:<\/strong> To give more than two hours boredom to audience, Puri Jagannath requires two countries-India and Pakistan, two rebirths, two religions, a cricket match and a love affair without a story<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Plus points:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A few tourist locations in Himachal Pradesh which we regularly view in Travel TV Channels.<\/li>\n<li>Intent and deep looks (not the feel) of Heroine Neha Shetty both as Pakistani girl and Indian girl (same make-up in two births excepting<em> bindi<\/em> on her forehead)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">.<strong>Pitfalls:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High Predictability: A story, that should have moved around one secret, is set in predictable lines from the beginning to the end.<\/li>\n<li>Cheap melodrama: Tragic scenes turn out to be laughing stock. If the director watches the movie sitting amid audiences, he finds how they sarcastically shout when the lovers leave from each other.<\/li>\n<li>Half-baked action: No artist, including, hero\u2019s father (Shiaji Shinde), gets involved in the role. Shinde\u2019s histrionics too appear artificial<\/li>\n<li>Dialogues: Excepting \u2018Zindabad to Abdul Kalam\u2019, not a single dialogue gives an impact.<\/li>\n<li>Flat love story: Excepting the reversing the birth places and religions, the love track is alike without having emotional travel.<\/li>\n<li>These are a few among countless pitfalls.<br \/>\n<hr \/>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">WHO&#8217;S WHO<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<pre><strong>Movie: Mehbooba<\/strong><strong>\n Banner:<\/strong>\u00a0Touring Talkies\n <strong>Cast:<\/strong>\u00a0Akash Puri, Neha Shetty, Shayaji Shinde, Vishnu Reddy, Murali Sharma \n\n<strong>Producer:<\/strong>\u00a0Puri Connects\n <strong>Music:<\/strong>\u00a0Sandeep Chowta\n <strong>Editor:<\/strong>\u00a0Junaid\n\n<strong>Cinematography:<\/strong>\u00a0Vishnu Sharma\n <strong>Action:<\/strong>\u00a0Real Satish\n <strong>Written and directed by:<\/strong>\u00a0Puri Jagannadh\n <strong>Release date:<\/strong>\u00a0May 11, 2018<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<strong>Plot: Love in War, Not War in Love<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Soldier (Akash Puri) protects a girl in enemy\u2019s country from his own higher-up from his country\u2019s army. This protective mode continues when she is reborn too. He indulges the border forces of the two countries (India and Pakistan) a war, which looks like street-fight, at the end.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Story: Having No Story is its Story<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s beyond everybody\u2019s imagination how Puri, who has penned an all time hit like\u2019Pokiri, comes out with flat story line. Hero and Heroine are interchangeably born successively in two countries which are skirted by a border. You can\u2019t see anything beyond, because Puri hasn\u2019t attempted a story beyond this.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Treatment: Lustre-less Remake of \u2018Magadheera\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rajamouli sets a standard in visualising love in two births. The story is gripping. Though the hero, heroine and Villain look alike in two births, their traits vary. Puri almost takes the same line and doesn\u2019t care to add his own flavour.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Screen play: Loosely Knit One<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can predict everything right from the beginning. Romance loses its sheen when it is routinely set in much expected situations.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Hero : Neither Too Good Nor Disappointing. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Puri ventures to keep his son, Akash Puri, as the hero to this haphazardly made movie. Interestingly Akash tries to do the movie to the best of his calibre. In a bid to protect Akash\u2019 true looks, make-up is kept at bay. Good. Vikas too appears in his true looks. But Akash as a soldier requires energy in his looks, Akash disappoints us here. He, however, is reasonably better in fighting scenes than in those of romance.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Others in Cast: New Directors Set in Old Times<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Barring the actors who played the roles of heroine\u2019s father and mother and Akash\u2019 boss in Pakistan Army, every actor fails to rise for the occasion. Again it\u2019s the lapse on the part of the director in extracting the best out of them. The one who plays Akash mother\u2019s action and dialogue delivery is highly artificial.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Dialogues: Punches Boomerang <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Puri is known for his witty punches. Of course, no humour is found in the movie. In some scenes, the dialogues become counterproductive. When the writer expects sympathy, audience laugh and when he ignites anger, they sit emotionless.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Cinematography: Lens Lacks\u00a0<\/strong><b>Vigor<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Locations are good but capturing is poor.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Music: Only Sound and No Music<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some Pakistani tunes give a soothing effect once in a while but the music neither triggers nor elevates any emotion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Bottom line: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If anyone risks witness a boring war and emotionless love, this is the right movie to watch.<\/p>\n<h4>-Satish Chandar<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0QUICK SCAN Rating: 1.5\/5 First Impression: To give more than two hours boredom to audience, Puri Jagannath requires two countries-India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[157,158,159,160,161,162,163],"class_list":["post-1456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-akash-puri","tag-mehabooba-film-review","tag-murali-sharma","tag-neha-shetty","tag-puri-jagannath","tag-shayaji-shinde","tag-vishnu-reddy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/telugoos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/akash-neha-e1526101840488.jpg?fit=427%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18373,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/18373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telugoos.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}