Ankit Pathak

The movie is worth watching if you don't set your expectations too high. It's very inaccurate when it comes to science. Darwin must be rolling in grave when the film tries to depict the species evolving within just a lifetime. Evolution doesn't work that way. It requires hundreds and even thousands of years for the favourable mutations to occur more frequently within the interbreeding population. However, what I enjoyed about the movie is that it made me think about climate change. It brings much needed attention to the topic. Also, it makes us appreciate our planet more. Goes on to show that the things we take for granted are transient and we might be the last few generations to live on this planet if we don't change our habits. Also, the quotations from Plato and Eliott were good and quite fitting for the plot. I would give it 6/10. Watch it for the message and to witness a future which we all know we are heading towards but are too selfish to try to do anything to stop it.

One of the benefits of cinema is that it enables you to see the other perspective that you couldn't in real life. Most of us have an opinion of things or people as good, bad or grey. And once we form this opinion we carry it on throughout our lifetime, piling up the evidences in support of it and ignoring the ones contradicting them. This is called confirmation bias in terms of psychology. But very few movies are able to show us the alternate perspective effectively and Mulk stands out for its brilliant portrayal of the other side of the spectrum. While all of us empathize with the direct victims of terrorist acts but few of us ever get to feel for the indirect victims, i.e., the innocent family and the community which is branded as terrorists on whole because of dastardly acts of few of their community. Mulk raises some pertinent questions, while it asks Muslims to keep a watch on their sons and to report the fringe eliments, it also asks us why don't we count Naxalites and rioters as terrorists? Watch it for the powerful message and the brilliant acting it conveys. Not often does Bollywood provide good movies with a social message.