Two big movies, just at the beginning of the year 2017-
Shah Rukh Khan starrer Raees and Hrittick Roshan starrer Kaabil. They are both
taking the industry, box office and audiences in their blows. But releasing on a
weekly day, 25th Jan, 2017 and colliding against each other at the
halls with Kaabil on 2700 screens and Raees on 3500 screens they are facing a serious
competition despite the huge personal fan-followers of each of the stars due to
the reason that both have a huge followership. More likely than not, people are
facing a challenge themselves to choose which movie to watch instantly and
which can be stalled for now. Also the fact of the halls being a houseful or a
very inconsiderably planned exam schedule or a hectic routine at office may
cause you to miss out on the story. Never mind here’s all that you may need to
know to join the gossip about the films.
Let’s start with Kaabil and then go to Raees with the
stories and their criticisms.
Kaabil
Directed
by- Sanjay Gupta
Produced by- Rakesh Roshan
Written
by- Sanjay Masoom, Vijay Kumar Mishra
Music by- Rajesh Roshan
Production
Company- Flimkraft Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Budget- 35 crore
Story
Hrittick Roshan, as
Rohan and Yami Gautam as Supriya, both are visually impaired independent
working people who meet each other, fall in love and get married. The couple
was one night enjoying themselves in a restaurant while a local goon Amit
Shellar (Rohit Roy) and his friend Wasim (Sahidur Rahman) behave
inappropriately with the couple, being intoxicated. This lead to a heated
argument between Rohan and them. next morning after Rohan leaves for work, Amit
and Wasim sneek into his house and gang rape Supriya. When Rohan calls the
police to report he is adviced by them to get Supriya medically examined within next 24 hours to prove the assault but they
get kidnapped by Shellar’s people on their way to hospital and are held captive
for next 36 hours. Then they are criticized by the police and doctors when they
finally reach them. Supriya tries to move on but Rohan’s becoming silent and
not being able to dismiss what happened, breaks Supriya further.
One day Rohan returns early from work to
apologise to Supriya for he had failed to support her as much as he should have
had but finds her hanging down the fan. Meanwhile MMAdhavrao Shellar (Ronit
Roy) visits Rohan and admits his brother has raped Supriya twice and threatens
him to remail silent on the matter. Rohan finds Supriya’s brail suicide note
where she confessed that the second assault led to her suicide. Rohan visits the
police station and implies that he will avenge his wife’s death anyway. He then
plans out the avenge and use his voice modulating skills to bring Wasim to an
isolated club. When he arrives, Rohan switches the lights off making the place
too dark for Wasim to see anything. Rohan kills Wasim by hanging him and leaves
Amit’s handkerchief to misguide the police. Similarly he calls Amit to a
warehouse full of drums of oil and kills him by tying him down in leaking oil
to be burned alive. Rohan gets arrested but flees with the help of his friend
Zaffar (Suresh Menon) and finally kills Madhavrao Shellar by throwing him down
the construction building where they meet. Police due to lack of evidences
couldn’t do anything against Rohan.
And Rohan, having taken the revenge sets
Supriya’s ashes free to the sea and bids her farewell.
Criticisms
The story plot has a
remarkable similarity with a 2014 Korean film Broken(Grief in his heart, vengeance on his mind) where a widower
man sets for revenge after his 15 year old daughter is gang raped by two men
and murdered. Also, there’s a Netflix
Marvel series Daredevil where a lawyer Matt Mudrock , visually impaired
from his childhood but has highly developed senses to render his blindness not
much effective and taking this advantage, turns into a vigilante in the night
of New York city. For the later it was even being said for a while that Netflix
will sue Hrittick Roshan. (chill, nothing as such happened though.) and also
director Sanjay Gupta has rubbished the later claims as ‘Hrittick is not playing any superheroes here’.
The story appears to
be also similar with Salman Khan’s shelved film Buland where the hero goes on a
vendetta spree after his girlfriend is raped and murdered.
However Kaabil resembling other films comes as
no surprise as Director Sanjay Gupta’s films have a famous history of having a
striking resemblance with other previously released movies let it be Kaante or Zinda, etc.
The film has been
also criticised to be a success only due to Hrittick’s outstanding acting
capability. And it is said to be a platform to vaunt the same only.
Personal Note: Hrittick has really rocked it by his acting
skills and makes the film worth a watch. No doubt that it is being called the
best performance of his career. Yami’s appearance is infalliable as mostly it
is. The songs are melodious. The expenses on the sets is evident.
Raees
Directed by- Rahul
Dholakia
Produced by- Ritesh Sidhwani, Gauri Khan, Farhan Akhtar
Written by-Rahul Dholakia,
HArit Mehta, Ashish Vashi, Niraj Shukla Music by- Ram Sampath
Production company- Red
chillies entertainment, Excel Entertainment Budget- 85 crore
Story
The film begins with Master
Subham Chitamani as Raees who is a student in a school and so poor that can’t
afford to buy spects and ends up stealing one from Mahatma Gndhi’s statute. He also
helps in illegal supply of desi daaroo. All
the while he Is accompanied by his friend Saadiq whose adult role is played by Mohammed Zeeshan
Ayyub. Impressed by his wits , Jairaj undertakes him for his deals on videsi daaroo. Shah Rukh Khan plays the role of adult Raees,
who is enraged if anybody calls him “battery” and follows a principle of not harming
anybody in his business as taught by his mother. He raises his own empire of
dealing on daroo with his friend
Saadiq and due to his humility and good nature becomes a favourite of everybody
around him in his locality.
He meets Aasiya, played by
Mahira Khan, falls in love and marries her.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, IPS
Jaideep Ambalal Majmudar is a very efficient police officer who never goes
against the law even if under illegal pressures who vows to take Raees down and
also imprisons him after persistent efforts , Raees finding his political
friends abandoning him , decides to fight in the elections and eventually wins
and also becomes father of a baby boy. But happy times are short lived and a
moment of crisis shows up in which to safeguard the people of his locality (muholla) he helps in transporting
illegal gold and in turn himself gets cheated as instead of gold he unaware
transports RDX bombs that cause death of a huge population raising to communal
riots. When Raees comes to know about what has happened he kills the people who
were actually behind the riot and handovers himself to IPS Majmudar who was
already plaaning to get assassinate him even without legal orders.
Personal Note- Although a little raw but contains a sweet-bitterness
of its own and has a moral to learn from. To put it simpler, has a solid story
that worths a watch along with each actor doing their parts well enough.
Criticisms
The film was said to be based
on Abdul Latif’s life but this claim has been dismissed by the filmmakers very clearly.
Shia community had raised
issues against the film due to use of their religious symbols in it.
The film stars Pakistani actress
Mahira Khan and that faced a huge criticism even during its shooting. The film
has faced a huge political criticisms due to the same reason, although Maharashtra
Navnirman Sena (NMS) had to finally raise the ban as Indian Army refused to
accept political inclination on sacrifices made.
Filming
and Box Office
The entire film of
Kaabil is shooted from March to July, 2016 in a total of 77 days whereas Raees
took a whole amount of time to be shooted from April 2015 to February 2016. Both
the films have received mixed ratings(from 2to5) and reviews(from being called
anti-national to patriotic).
Raees collected
@20.42 crore on its first day whereas Kaabil could only grab nearly half, some
10.42 crore. Till date Raees is a clear hit with a collection of 116 crore and Kaabil has
considerably caught upto it with a collection of 85.30 crore.
Now choose and enjoy
whichever movie you think will be better for you. Also, don’t hesitate to join
the gossip at the college corridor or the next seat in the bus. J
Bye till next
Thursday. J
