Hirkani

I watched or rather tried my best to sit through Hirkani on Prime Video.

While the base story may have good cinematic potential, this particular film is decidedly mediocre.

There are far too many songs and dances right from the beginning and Sonali Kulkarni's make up looks really fake. All this detracts from the plot and I gave up after the first 40mn.

Didn't expected this movie to be this good a real crowd pleaser a must watch movie

Don't know about other stupids who are saying movie makes people emotional fool and all or some morons saying low quality stuffs. Ignore them all, it is a very good movie to be watched with family. It is faaaarrrrrrr better than so called CHU-Bollywood movies with high quality but nonsense stuffs. Atleast this movie has some good stuffs. Proud that such movies are been created for people to get them visualized with the past.

Art work best vfx and sound is excellent and acting is excellent

Another example of how the Indian cinema falls short on the technical aspects of filmmaking! The running time of the movie is around 100 min.(which itself is too less for any period film, should have been at least 140 minutes or greater) out of which around 20 minutes are dedicated to Hirkani's legendary descent. This is core of the film and is dismal. Maharashtra has hundreds of accomplished climbers who have trekked across the Sahyadri. They could have helped with guessing and projecting the possibilities of how Hirkani would have descended in a freestyle way but such efforts don't seem to manifest. While Sonalee Kulkarni's makeup and acting is surprisingly good, the other actors fail to make any impression, including Prasad Oak as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Actors utilized for characters of Kavi Bhushan, Bahirji Naik, Pant(now it's unclear if they were taking about Moropant Pingale or Ramchandra Pant Amatya!) and others are unsuitable! There is not a single view(VFX-based) of how majestic fort Raigad would have been in 1670s, moreover, they didn't bother to show how Hirkani Buruj and the western cliffs look today(remember, Raigad was termed as 'Troy of the East'). The music somehow doesn't suit a period film. I will continue to watch and encourage period movies, especially about the Maratha empire but the filmmakers need to raise the bar much higher, put blood and sweat and create technical and historical masterpieces.