Sarbjit (2016)

Simply A Masterpiece

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Crappy film

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

This Movie is an Average affair at best. My problem starts with the director of the movie Mr. Omang Kumar. He has major casting issues and should hire a different casting director. Although he's a good story teller he's choice of actors baffles me. Richa Chaddha is the only proper actor and does justice to her minuscule role. Aishwarya is an embarrassment playing a Punjabi woman. She's shouting through out the movie like a female sunny deol. Not trying to troll her but it was a beautiful role with lot of potential had it been given to an actor who could at least be fluent in Punjabi. Lead pair playing a Punjabi brother and sister are intact a Haryanvi and a Marathi. Now imagine. Randeep though a great actor is not convincing as a Punjabi sarbjit. Irfan khan played a much better sardar in his movie or for that matter.Movie has amazing story line and its even more amazing that its a true story. I would watch it to kill 2-3 hours of my free time.

Excellent Movie. Great Story, and executed nicely. 2 mistakes: - Aish Rai: Poor acting. If they could have switched Richa Chadda and Aish, Richa would have done a must better acting. It was an excellent role, and good acting would have raised this role to another level. - Too Long. They could have cut it short to 1.5 hours.2 great things: - Randeep Hooda - Amazing Acting. - Execution of Story to be told.Songs were not needed, Aish acting as a leader not needed. Richa should have given more time in the movie. She is a good actress. Randeep Hooda could have spent more time on screen. Movie was more about Aish then Sarabjit.

Take a film just as that, yes, a film. Something as work of fiction, and this film manages to touch your heart and your emotions like not many can. The suffering of an innocent man, the undeserved torture on a farmer whose only sin was mistakenly, in a state of being drunk, landing on the wrong side of the border. The emotions are so well depicted that you could possibly end up in tears on many different scenes.Randeep Hooda is an actor who keeps growing on me with every film passing. He is a gem that Bollywood has found in the recent years. To top it, I never believed that Aishwarya would be able to pull of the role of a Punjaban so so well, with great dialogue delivery with that typical Punjabi-ness, great immersing into the character of a sister who would go to any length to protect her brother.I wrote such a detailed review that the character limit over here disallows it to be posted. I uploaded it in simple text format on some text hosting site.http://textuploader.com/5bmgt

It's an era for Biographies in India, followed by Neerja and Azhar, Sarbjit is a very sensitive topic for a film. Some brilliant performances by Randeep Hooda, Aishwarya Rai and Richa Chadha. Omung Kumar has beautifully directed the film with all small intricacies. A tragic real-life story. A perfect cast for for Sarabjit- Randeep Hooda has lived more than the expectations. His grief, accent and looks complete the ensemble. His performance is overall quite praise- worthy, just falling short of a little longer screen time. Aishwarya Rai tries to quite live up to the character but there are areas that could have been improved. At some places her walking styles, her lip-twisting and chest-thumping are too posh for a character like Dalbir Kaur. Some of us hark back to her purple lips at Cannes. Although her voice tone impresses you. She has been quite successful to exhibit anger, unstaggering devotion,helplessness and trauma in each and every frame. Richa- Chadha's 3 minute monologue in a closed room with Aishwarya is exemplary. The screenplay, locations and overall-efforts are outstanding, though at a time the Anti-Pakistani Sentiments are a bit too much. Long-stressed empathy is remarkable and will find a place in every person-Be it a Hindustani or Pakistani or any other human. Dialogues are well- written and impactful. Personally, the movie has more songs than it would require. Some are just unnecessary. The first 15 minutes are too fast- showing many happy, emotional and traumatic scenes at a go. This leaves the movie dipping in the post-interval period. But overall I would suggest it's a must-watch to evoke the humanity, empathy and awareness in us. I give it a 8/10.