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Dhadak ticks all the boxes when it comes to style, but lacks in its very soul. Here's a quick peek at the movie.
Dhadak ticks all the boxes when it comes to style, but lacks in its very soul. Here’s a quick peek at the movie.
Lovers. New found love. First Kiss.
The girl places a bet. The boy wins. They go to a forbidden backyard of the girl’s palatial estate. Only the two of them, away from the bustle. The boy – eyes fixed. Then looks nowhere. Searches for her lips. Trembles. Precarious. Tensed. Knows not what to do. Doesn’t want to fail. Inadequacy. Hands finding a hold. Fails. Then a peck. Somehow. Unaware. Unassuming. And, then a little more. Their first kiss. Thus.
Ishan Khatter in Dhadak.
You can scream, shout, punch, and serve lofty dialogues. It’s easy. But when you are left with only emotions and actions with no words, an actor is tested to the core. This boy was impressive. His alacrity with emotions coupled with an infectious smile was a thing to watch. Effortless and unassuming, Ishan Khattar is definitely a name to watch out for.
But, Dhadak fails to impress as much it should have. No, I am not comparing it with Sairat. Even without Sairat as a benchmark, this flick falls flat on various parlances. I anyway have very little hope from the Johar clan when it comes to launching newbies. It’s money power-play, and just that.
To begin with, why Rajasthan? Why that dialect? It fails at the very first go. If you don’t get what I mean, watch Dangal. Again. You will know what language does to a movie. Major put off. Janhvi Kapoor’s voice too didn’t match the tone of the lingo. The songs were average. The title track is sweet though. Heroine looks elegant in Malhotra’s ensembles. There was nothing much the editors were meant to do here. The supporting cast in fact nailed it reasonably well. Needless to mention, Ashutosh Rana.
Janhvi Kapoor. I am not yet ready to write off this girl. Because I believe Johar and his directors can’t get the best from their actors. Especially new ones. Example: Alia Bhatt. But, she has a long way to go. I will again say, what I said before. I missed that love and passion in her eyes. She was good when she was vulnerable and desperate. But I missed that warmth. The warmth that makes you fall in love with their love on celluloid. I stayed detached. Janhvi Kapoor was acting. And acting too hard. You know what I mean, right? She needs to chose her flicks wisely henceforth. Or else, there won’t be any soul singing ‘Janhvi…o…meri Janhvi’ for her.
Dhadak lacks soul. It lacks what makes a love story worth it. It lacks moments to feel, to gulp, to cherish. It fails to pain. It doesn’t linger. It leaves you parched. It is loud. It should have been subtle. Thus, it fails to create a ‘dhadak’ in your heart. My heart.
To sum it all up I just couldn’t sing the way I wanted to sing, “Jo mere dil ko dil banaati hai, Tere naam ki koi dhadak hai na”!
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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