Mission Majnu

"Mission Majnu," an espionage romantic thriller on Netflix, is based on true events from the 1970s when Pakistan was secretly developing a nuclear bomb. The film follows Indian spies' efforts to uncover this clandestine operation.

The story centers on Amandeep Singh, who, under the alias Tariq, poses as a tailor and falls in love with a local blind girl, Nasreen. His mission is to locate Pakistan's secret nuclear facility and halt the bomb-making process.

While the plot is somewhat predictable, the lead actors' performances, along with the narration, tight screenplay, and execution, make it a thoroughly engaging movie. Siddharth Malhotra's portrayal of his character is particularly commendable. Kumud Mishra and Shabir Hashmi also deliver excellent performances, and Rashmika Mandanna convincingly plays the protagonist's blind love interest and wife. Some scenes are genuinely moving. The songs are well-placed and enjoyable, though the background score could have been better. The cinematography is good, though not exceptional. Despite a few moments where the film loses momentum, debut director Shantanu Bagchi has crafted an engaging espionage thriller, even if there are areas for improvement.

This is a story of India's most audacious and daring covert operation in the heart of Pakistan.

While the storyline is intriguing, the execution leaves something to be desired. The film fails to rise beyond the caricature of the age-old India-Pakistan hatred and war, and could have been more thrilling and gripping.

The pacing is slow, and the film struggles to maintain the audience's interest. The performances are underwhelming and fail to convey the intensity and urgency of the situation.

The direction is lacklustre, and the film fails to build the necessary tension and suspense to make it a truly thrilling experience.

The film has a good premise but could have been executed in a better way.

It fails to live up to its potential and could have been made more thrilling and gripping.

The film is a missed opportunity to explore a little-known piece of history and the audience may find themselves disappointed by the lack of depth and intensity in the film.

Weak script, too slow, mediocre acting and so many illogical scenes.

How come a movie contains so many illogical scenes and still netflix is buying this kind of movies?

If you are a person who like spy movies/series and expect to get blown away by spy like skills, then this movie is not for you. 30minutes in the movie and it will bore the heck out of you. You will feel cheated for the time you are planning to spend on this movie.

You not only wll be disappointed but will definitely get angry with this mockery.

Good that this movie is released in netflix otherwise viewers would have hated spending money on multiplexes.

This is a propaganda movie. What is important is that it is a poorly made propaganda movie. Likely based on real life events but it is glorified so much that it loses meaning. Espionage is a tough business consisting of much pain but this movie tries to sell it as super heroic. Mandhana didn't good job of portraying a blind girl. Siddharth who I think is a good actor didn't really sell his character where he is hated by most people who know him and he can't share who he is with one person he loves. Overly jingoistic and looks far removed from reality. Supporting actors did a good job in my opinion. I wanted to like this movie but just couldn't.

Anwar Says: Good start , gripping first hour , a new story on patriotic theme , clarity on narrative but it starts soaking down and every next scene is predictable. While watching, you have Shershah in mind , particularly finding Sidharth Malhotra on screen. Sidharth is a terrific actor but captain of the ship is the director and Shantanu Bagchi has been only able to save it from sinking.

Story time is mid '70 and Zia Ul Haque arrested Bhutto and came to power and wanted to become Nuclear Power secretly. RAW came in between and Pakistan is exposed in the world. Had all the materials to be a hit but this genre had top class Baby, Raazi etc. And anything less than that would not satisfy the audience. Sharib Hashmi and Kumud Mishra are the expected aids of the lead and when the main character could not put an impact, how can these supporting characters impress? Rashmika Mandanna as blind love interest of Hero has hardly anything to do.

The weakest area is action which is the most important thing in a spy thriller. Music is not hummable and VFX is weak. On the whole OK in parts but can be skipped. Producers have taken correct decision to release it straight on OTT. 2.5 out of 5 from me.

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