{"id":792,"date":"2016-07-22T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/?p=792"},"modified":"2016-07-22T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T17:21:11","slug":"madaari-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/madaari-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"MADAARI Movie Review : Irrfan Shines Amidst Average Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last venture(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/rocky-handsome-movie-review\/\">Rocky Handsome<\/a>) by director <strong>Nishikant Kamat<\/strong> did not fare well with us, and hence, we were skeptical about the outcome of <strong>Madaari<\/strong>. But as a relief, this movie featuring Irrfan is a <strong>good watch.<\/strong> What makes it watchable? Well, read the full <strong>Madaari Movie Review<\/strong> below.<\/p>\n<h2>About Madaari<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Madaari<\/strong> is a thriller drama movie directed by <strong>Nishikant Kamat.<\/strong> It is written by <strong>Ritesh Shah<\/strong> and <strong>Shailja Kejriwal.<\/strong> It features <strong>Irrfan Khan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/traffic-movie-review\/\">Jimmy Sheirgill<\/a>, Vishesh Bansal, Tushar Dalvi and Nitesh Pandey.<\/strong> The movie is produced by <strong>Shailesh Singh, Madan Paliwal, Sutapa Sikdar &amp; Shailja Kejriwal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Plot<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Nirmal Kumar<\/strong>(Irrfan) is a common man who works as a technician. He is a single parent to his son <strong>Apurv<\/strong> as his wife lives abroad with her new family. His\u00a0loses his son due to <strong>negligence and irresponsibility<\/strong> of officials. As a payback, he <strong>kidnaps<\/strong> Home Minister&#8217;s son, <strong>Rohan<\/strong>(Vishesh). And as an unidentified person,\u00a0he puts a condition to release him. That he will do that only if the government and officials find out <strong>who was responsible<\/strong> for him losing his son. Meanwhile, the <strong>home minister<\/strong>(Tushar) deploys his trusted investigators led by <strong>Nachiket Verma<\/strong>(Jimmy) who are trying their hard amidst media pressure, opposition pressure and the anonymity of the kidnapper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the trailer of the movie here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"MADAARI Official Trailer 2016 | Irrfan Khan, Jimmy Shergill | T-Series\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j4s3JmLGLCA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Story, Screenplay, and Dialogues<\/h2>\n<p>It was a tricky topic to make a movie on as it had great potential to make an <strong>awesome movie.<\/strong> But at the same time, it also had a risk of being <strong>repetitive and predictable.<\/strong> The movie had traces of both. The basic story was more or less predictable and there was <strong>not much suspense<\/strong> till the final half hour of the movie. That final half hour also turns <strong>preachy<\/strong> by the way, which kills the suspense quickly. The <strong>screenplay<\/strong> is <strong>impressive<\/strong> and <strong>immersive.<\/strong> It keeps the audience <strong>bound to their seats<\/strong> till the end. The <strong>buildups<\/strong> to significant events were worth the efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>character development<\/strong> of the <strong>protagonist<\/strong> was <strong>commendable.<\/strong> However, rest of the characters do not tend to have any impact whatsoever. The politicians, as the characters, were <strong>handled very loosely.<\/strong> Even the character of a young boy with influential father <strong>did not connect that well.<\/strong> The only thing that was worth taking away as a positive, apart from Irrfan&#8217;s acting, was the <strong>chemistry<\/strong> between <strong>Nirmal and Apoorv.<\/strong> I admit, <strong>I cried.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dialogues by <strong>Ritesh Shah<\/strong> are <strong>good.<\/strong> But <strong>confusing<\/strong> at times. And by times, we mean the last hour or so. We get the point that it is supposed to be a significant dialogue, with layers. But we could not peel off that layer to know the significance. Happened more than once. Regardless, the writing was a <strong>positive<\/strong> for the movie.<\/p>\n<h2>Performance<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Irrfan<\/strong> is <strong>stellar<\/strong> once again. He portrays the <strong>pain<\/strong> of a father who lost his son, with complete <strong>sincerity and believability.<\/strong> Such, that the audience can feel his grief. We cry with him. But unfortunately, apart from him, <strong>no other performance is watchable.<\/strong> The kid who plays Apoorv, the son of Irrfan&#8217;s character, <strong>looks good<\/strong> but has far low screen time to qualify as a performance. <strong>Vishesh<\/strong> tries his best, and <strong>looks cute<\/strong> at points, but this kid <strong>does not leave a lasting impact.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Music<\/h2>\n<p>There are <strong>two songs<\/strong> in this movie. &#8216;<strong>Dama Dam<\/strong>&#8216; is a raunchy, and pacy song which suits the uprising mood of the movie&#8217;s events perfectly. Another song, &#8216;<strong>Masoom Sa<\/strong>&#8216; does that, and does that <strong>better. \u00a0<\/strong>When I said I cried, <strong>I cried in this song. TWICE.<\/strong> The vocals by <strong>Sukhwinder <\/strong>made this song composed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/rocky-handsome-music-review\/\"><strong>Sunny Bawra<\/strong> and <\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/rocky-handsome-music-review\/\">Inder Bawra<\/a>,<\/strong> even\u00a0<strong>beautiful.<\/strong> Also equally credible were the visuals of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Not to forget, the <strong>background music<\/strong> of the movie, by <strong>Sameer Phaterpekar<\/strong> sets up the movie perfectly. Especially the Damru theme that occasionally plays while Nirmal plans and executes the kidnap. <strong>Great sound<\/strong> that was.<\/p>\n<h2>Direction<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Nishikant Kamat<\/strong> disappointed with an <strong>earlier release<\/strong> this year, but with this one, he seems to have <strong>executed well.<\/strong> However, it wasn&#8217;t the perfect direction. There were <strong>flaws,<\/strong> and some of them repeated from the previous movie. Like the <strong>underuse\/<\/strong>imperfect use of the <strong>child talents,<\/strong> <strong>less focus<\/strong> on <strong>supporting<\/strong> characters, etc. Nishikant did manage to <strong>create some beautiful moments.<\/strong> But he <strong>could not keep it throughout.<\/strong> Reagardless, the movie did keep us tangled to our seats. And that is a <strong>positive<\/strong> for the direction.<\/p>\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>Madaari is an <strong>imperfect<\/strong> but <strong>well-written<\/strong> socio-thriller drama. That <strong>sounds preachy<\/strong> at times, but is <strong>entertaining<\/strong> for most of the part. The narrative <strong>binds the audience<\/strong> and major credit for that goes to <strong>Irrfan Khan<\/strong>&#8216;s brilliant performance.\u00a0I won&#8217;t insist that you watch this movie. But <strong>it is a good watch.<\/strong> Atleast a good <strong>one time<\/strong> watch. Watch it for amazing performance and the equation between Irrfan and kids.<\/p>\n<p>[wp-review id=&#8221;792&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you watch the movie? Did you like the movie? Do you agree with our review of the movie? What part of the review did you like most? Do you think we missed some part in our review that you would like to mention? Head down to the comments section below and leave a reply. Also, do not forget to share the review with your friends. Coz it\u2019s more fun with friends around. We will be back with more reviews of trailers, music and movies, and other stuff. Till then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/fb\/\">#KeepLovingCinema.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Also, Do not forget to watch Swudzy&#8217;s<strong> first Short Movie<\/strong> &#8216;<strong>JUMP<\/strong>&#8216; that released on <strong>31st May<\/strong> on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/swudzyTV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong> <\/a>channel. <strong>Watch the movie right here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"JUMP - A Short Film on Student Suicide | A Film by Niket | Swudzy.Com\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CH0lyS7GmGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Also, Do not forget to like our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/swudzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/swudzy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0handles for more regular updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the unsatisfying Rocky Handsome, Nishikant Kamat brings in Madaari which is watchable hugely due to Irrfan&#8217;s brilliant performance and good writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Madaari-Movie-Review.jpg",800,455,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Madaari-Movie-Review-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Madaari-Movie-Review-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Madaari-Movie-Review-768x437.jpg",768,437,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Madaari-Movie-Review.jpg",800,455,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Madaari-Movie-Review.jpg",800,455,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Madaari-Movie-Review.jpg",800,455,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Niket","author_link":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/author\/niket\/"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"After the unsatisfying Rocky Handsome, Nishikant Kamat brings in Madaari which is watchable hugely due to Irrfan's brilliant performance and good writing.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swudzy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}