Freaking over Films

Disclaimer: I haven’t watched, Sairat the famous Marathi film from which Dhadak has been inspired. My review is based on strictly viewing Dhadak as a standalone film. As a 90’s kid, I’ve grown up watching what would be now classified as stereotypical formula films. The kind where boy-meet-girl, fall in love only to conceive and subsequently tackle forthcoming abomination to attain triumph. The films that concluded with a “happily-ever-after” steered ahead of the ones that didn’t. Love stories flourishing amidst the backdrop of societal struggles of caste and class had primarily characterized a sustained notion pertaining to Hindi films across the globe. As we progressed to early 2000’s, love stories continued to thrive as the main-stay of Bollywood only change being; societal standards no longer played villain. Internal conflicts of the characters disbanded them for the course of the movie making way for a happily-ever-after as the epilogue. Subsequent endeavors to push t

Commencing with the declaration, I LOVED THE FILM, not to the extent I aspired to. The hugely acclaimed Mr. Hirani, who in his career as a director spanning over a decade and a half has helmed merely five films knows the distinct art of balancing content with commerce. Therefore, it is no revelation that Sanju, corresponding to all his prior outings has been lauded both by audiences and critics alike. I am not a fan of Sanjay Dutt, I haven’t loathed his body work but haven’t fancied him either, barring the Munnabhai Series and maybe a couple of more films. His roller-coaster personal life has failed to intrigue me, plainly warranted by the fact that the bulk of the controversy surrounding his life which I’ve witnessed, have been spillover effects from events that had already conspired before I was born. However, major buzz surrounding the film was not owing to the so-called controversial life and times of Sanju Baba, but the illustrious trailer of the film giving a glimps