DeadlyBaazigar

This movie has all the elements of what you would expect from a movie like this. Action, story, history, interesting characters etc. Its all there.... except the main character's actor goes out of his way to just spoil everything with his over the top acting. I'm not sure how the director didn't just tell him to turn it down a notch or two but at points you just find it hard to take him seriously and are stunned that this is the protagonist and the one you're supposed to be backing and taking seriously. I remember watching the same actor in another show he did called Alice in Borderland and he carries the same over the top acting from there. The difference is over there he is surrounded by children so it its ok, while here in a historical piece, he doesn't match the role at all. I'm certain this movie rating would have been 7.5-8 overall if it was cast by a different lead.

This movie started out very good. The story is very watchable and there was alot of political tensions that were well represented in the movie (even though Hindu-Muslim drama seemed a bit exaggerated). Nawazuddin Siddiqui did a great job and the heroine beside him did good as well (some overacting was there). However towards the end of the movie (after 75%) the movie completely falls off a cliff. It feels like the writer did not know how to resolve the conflicts that were presented and started doing typical Bollywood drama that was too much and makes no sense. This really ruined the feel for the movie and affected the rating I gave as Im sure it did for many others.

Irrfan Khan put on an amazing performance here. Story was brilliant, acting was great, all up until the middle where things started to get confusing and story gets ruined. Even Irrfan cannot save it after that. Alot of plot holes, lost pace, and overall seems like a different movie. Could have been an amazing 10/10 but I still is worth watching.