Darbar Movie Review

Darbar Movie Review  

Darbar Movie Review                                            RATING: 3/5

|  2020-01-09

CAST: Rajinikanth, Nayanthara, Nivetha Thomas, Yogi Babu, Prateik Babbar, and Suniel Shetty

Director -A.R. Murugadoss
Producer - Subaskaran Allirajah
Song - Anirudh Ravichander

Darbar review

There is action, drama, emotion, comedy -- everything in equal measure and much of trendy sequences featuring Rajinikanth.

Clearly, Darbar may be a visual treat for fans, says Divya Nair.

I am sorry Rajini Sir, I watched your movie during a multiplex and not in an old-fashioned single screen theatre. I'm apologetic because the experience can never be an equivalent.

As a real fan, I found it boring to enter the multiplex, show my ticket, sit back and watch the film with no interruptions or whistling.

I really missed the ceremonial paal abhishegam, celebratory dance and drum beat before entering the theatre. (Click here to ascertain what we mean)

The INOX theatre in Kalyan, where I watched the film, had a disappointing crowd of 20 to 30 people -- these were mostly office-goers who had requested a half day from work and a few who had brought along their enthusiastic mothers. quite 80 percent of the theatre was empty, which can not are the case in Aurora, Mumbai.

'I haven't entertained negativity in my life'

'I was lucky to satisfy Karan Johar; most of the people don't'

In Darbar (meaning court), Rajinikanth plays Adithya Arunasalam, one father and a 'mad cop' (technically, the Mumbai police commissioner) with three rules:

1. He won't leave employment assigned to him midway until he decides it's complete.

2. He won't spare anyone who will are available the way of his duty.

3. He won't shave his beard until he completes his assignment.

The last one could also be insignificant because Thalaivar features a beard almost throughout the movie.

When Adithya nabs his first big criminal Ajay Malhotra (Prateik Babar), a pusher who also sends innocent girls into flesh trade -- you would like to rejoice with Adithya and co. But soon, you'll realize that the cops have only scratched the surface, and Ajay Malhotra isn't the important villain.

There are several plot twists and a poorly sketched out backstory to tease and thrill you.

The first half, punctuated with gravity-defying action sequences and punchy dialogues rendered by the hero cop, will certainly entertain you.

Rajini establishes that he is not your regular lovable cop who does all the items audience love.

Unlike most of his films where violence and action were restricted to blood-stained clothes, the sound of bullets, weapons and cracked bones, Darbar makes an exception and shows you amputated body parts.

He will break rules or rewrite them and stop at nothing if someone messes together with his family, comprising of his daughter, and therefore the police fraternity.

Thalaivar even references the late M G Ramachandran, when he says: 'In a number of his films, MGR would take the primary three hits from the enemy -- to not increase the joys, because the audience would really like to imagine -- but to measure the enemy's strength, understand who their allies are and retaliate with the right strategy.'

Suniel Shetty, because the villain, is not any match for Rajini's grandeur and charisma, but he tries his best to stay up with menacing gimmicks.

Director A R Murugadoss deserves applause for mostly sticking to the plot. He could have cut the movie by 20-30 minutes if he had done away with unnecessary song and dance sequences.

For example, what was the purpose of getting Thalaivar sing and dance to a lame song with a bunch of background dancers when he was actually called to locate a girl's missing gold chain?

There are some positives also.

After an extended time, we get to ascertain some comic relief within the sort of Rajini wooing Nayanthara, with help from Yogi Babu. an honest looking lady has always been Thalaivar's weakness altogether his films -- it brings out his shy, childlike demeanor, portraying him as a romantic hero.

Sadly, the music by Anirudh Ravichander fails to evoke any magic. Unlike Kaala, where the lyrics had such a lot to precise, Darbar's songs and lyrics are easily forgettable.

Overall, the manufacturers have tried to include everything that creates a masala entertainer in Darbar, and are largely successful. there's action, drama, emotion, comedy -- everything in equal measure and much of trendy sequences featuring Rajinikanth. Clearly, Darbar may be a visual treat for fans.

You will walk out of the theatre wondering how this 69-year-old looks so young and charismatic and carry a movie like this on his shoulders.

Rajini has a solution for that within the film: 'Namburavangalikku vayasu verum oru number (to those that truly believe, age is simply a number).'

Whether or not Darbar becomes successful, Rajinikanth proves there's no entertainer like him.