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It is rarely that I write a review but this one definitely deserves one. And needless to say I am surprised to see an overal low average rating here. While the first reveal of the premise of the movie did let me down initially, the director did a spelendid job in quickly lifting the movie high up. By the end, the emotional powerhouse climax scene at the train station totally reserructed the movie, where two elements were playing in its favour in this gem of a sequence: Sara Ali Khan's amazing performance and A. R. Rahman's soulful music (that flute bit). Totall won me over.

Overall it is a very well-made movie with a unique story to tell, with a great help from some very soulful music, great performances (of which Sara Ali Khan's stands out at the top, still cannot believe she was not even nominated for any major awards), cinematogrphy, choreography and dialoques. Movies like this from mainstream directors like Aanand L. Rai and Imtiaz Ali (I see similarities to Tamasha) are a breath of fresh air always.

Highly recommended.

It had a great start, a jaw-dropping beautiful location and scenery, great story building, and background music. But then that completely weird ending and especially that one scene towards the end (avoiding spoilers) totally ruined it. The first 1 hour or so, I was wondering how did this movie get a low 6.1 average rating on IMDb, while I already had a minimum 7 in my mind. The only to way to achieve that would be to ruin the movie in the third act, and so was the case. Alex Garland has a peculiar and extraordinary taste for macabre scenes and visuals (as seen especially in Annihilation). However, here that one scene towards the end was just too much, over the top, and plain unnecessary. Besides that, the basic premise of the movie (misogyny) lacked a solid base to build on.