Ishani Guha

Watched it for Ishaan Khatter, his screen dad MS and some light entertainment. Everything/one was enjoyable, except for Bhumi Pednekar's bulging lips. Thoroughly enjoyed watching DM, LK and the og MS after a long time, wished MS had more screen time, hopefully next season. Liked all the characters and their performances except for the female lead and the story surrounding her. Nice weekend binge!

It’s like a rajnikanth or 80s amitabh movie formula applied on srk. They had a script for the first 30-40 minutes, which showed potential, then it just became like a series of random elements - 30 action scenes, 3 songs, 20 minutes of deepika, ridiculous addition of sanju baba, all just somehow put together with a purely decorative villain (wasting so many good actors!). The film has no engaging storyline, no suspense, no climax. At no point after the first sequence, I empathized with the characters, or felt that any of them were in any danger, such is the kind of storytelling. The social messages lost their impact being surrounded by such ridiculous sequences. However, Jawan has more content than Pathan, in case you were wondering. Sigh, being an srk fan has become such a torture these days! Movies like these make you value the earlier srk school of movies with good romantic plot with powerful underlying messages and substantial female roles even more! Last but not the least, I will remember the action scene where three eggs were thrown on the windscreen for a long time, because of its sheer comic randomness.