GOLD REVIEW :
One of the most awaited film of the year for me especially looking at Akshay Kumar's script since now days and he was coming back after classic Padman so expectation from this one were high for obvious reasons. The trailer of the film was promising enough to build expectations among the people and now no hesitation to say that Gold lives up to the Expectations level, completely. I don't remember the last film which was released on Independence Day and totally deserved to be released on the day just because of its content and here comes Gold which I felt is completely deserving and probably the only deserving film for the Independence day release as far as this decade is concerned.
Talking about the story Gold is a journey of Hockey Team India's Struggle, Courage, Patients and Glorious Victory from pre independence period to Post independence period in typical filmy way. In acting Akshay Kumar has lived his character of a Bengali guy whose accent is completely amazing and his command over dialogue delivery is Superb. Mouni Roy as his wife looks Beautiful and mouths perfect Begali of that particular period. There is a big team of actors and everyone has done decent job which looks good on screen. Writing of the film its top notch, and is filled with plenty of Twists and cinematic moments. Dialogues are sober, quite encouraging and clap worthy. Cinematography is good because the locations of the film were set in old era, so the naturality should have remained intact and happily it remains intact. The Hockey Match sequences were shot in tactical way and have been supported by very well by VFX team & thrilling Background music.
Done with all the positives of the film now coming towards the minuses. The biggest minus point of the film its music. Couple of songs are irritating and completely useless while the title song and one situational song are somewhat tolerable. Reema Kagti has done a very good job but I am personally very disappointed as I find the script was a Masterpiece material and Reema has failed to achieve that Masterpiece tag. Typical film-making and commercial vision has spoiled the Classic content at some level which doesn't let this film end up on a classic note. Come on, you don't need every scene to be Filmy and twisty, sometimes you can just go with the flow. But that doesn't mean it is a bad film, it is very good one indeed. Though, it could have been a Classic. Two patriotic films I remember with almost no minuses at all are Chak De India and Dangal Where The Masterpiece writing was molded into classic cinematic gem and the credit definitely goes to the directors and their vision which seems lacking in the case of Gold. One of the most important thing about those two Films was that these two classics didn't have any useless love making scenes and Gold has couple of loo-breaks in that form.
In final talk, I would say Gold is the most deserving Independence Day release of this decade because of Shivering last 30 Minutes portion and despite not being a classic this one is still a must watch if you want to see some patriotic Hysteria this Independence Day. This one is a winner All The Way... Critically as well as Commercially. This one was a 9/10* material but Reema Kagti has made out a 7/10* film while the great run of Akki continues....
