{"id":4303,"date":"2020-01-10T08:13:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T08:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2020-01-10T08:13:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T08:13:14","slug":"tanhaji-the-unsung-warrior-well-crafted-bollywood-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=4303","title":{"rendered":"Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior: Well-crafted Bollywood extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Film:<\/strong>\u00a0Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior:<\/p>\n

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Cast: <\/strong>Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, Kajol, Sharad Kelkar, Luke Kenny<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Direction:<\/strong>\u00a0Om Raut<\/p>\n

New Delhi, <\/strong>Three things had straightaway grabbed attention watching the promos of “Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior”. First, the sheer lavishness of the film’s frames, and the fact that it had been prepared for 3D consumption. Second, the real-life couple of Ajay Devgn and Kajol was returning together on screen after close to a decade. Finally, Saif Ali Khan did look menacing as the arch villain of the piece.<\/p>\n

Watching Ajay Devgn’s self-produced latest effort, you realise the actor-filmmaker’s intention was not just to create largescale action drama seeped in lavish visual delight. The film, directed by Bollywood debutant Om Raut, tries reimagining the Bollywood historical genre at a scale far more extravagant than we have seen so far.<\/p>\n

If commercial cinema is largely about impressing with visual delight, the unapologetically larger-than-life “Tanhaji” manages to craft the right spectacular impact. Watch the trailer here.<\/p>\n

But there is a very different aspect of creativity associated with mainstream cinema that also needs to be fulfilled to set up a stellar watch. A visually striking film also needs assured writing, and characters that arrest your imagination.<\/p>\n

Prakash Kapadia and Om Raut’s writing could perhaps have done better while setting up roles that justified Ajay and Kajol’s on-screen reunion after such a long time, as Tanaji and his wife Savitribai. Granted, the film centres on war drama — which means the scope of romance and chemistry automatically gets curbed. Also, Kajol gets very limited screen time here, though she is a delight to watch as ever. “Tanhaji” is mostly about Ajay Devgn’s machismo, and about redefining his vintage action hero avatar with a twist of history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Film:\u00a0Tanhaji The Unsung Warrior: Cast: Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, Kajol, Sharad Kelkar, Luke Kenny Direction:\u00a0Om Raut New Delhi, Three things had straightaway grabbed attention watching the promos of “Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior”. First, the sheer lavishness of the film’s frames, and the fact that it had been prepared for 3D consumption. Second, the real-life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4305,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions\/4305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}