Sanket Mahapatra

: The movie feels forced, terribly forced. Every single scene is an attempt to tie together bits and pieces of script written on napkins after being discussed by drunk manchildren, who probably failed matriculation but consider themselves to be true nerds. There has been attempts to tastelessly copy from all mainstream stories of fantasy (HP, LOTR, Marvel) the makers have seen (only after Netflix and Prime released them). A whole 15 min sequence after the intermission felt like déjà vu; like Parle-G powered Abraa Ka Daabra of circa 2004, which raises serious questions about the target audience of this horror show. I'm a connoisseur of cringe, for it makes me feel worthy on days when I feel low or purposeless, but Brahmastra felt like the worst punishment one can be subjected to. Coming to the technical aspects of it, the VFX(read 'multicoloured fire') is terribly redundant in most scenes, the sound is horribly done, the dialogues are childish and feel like being written by a scarcely trained AI or being translated poorly from another language, the plot is looser than the elastic of my decade old underpants and the pacing is haphazard and shoddy. Being a work of fiction, the movie was expected to maraud over logic, but its expected to at least follow a single stream of logic in whatever universe you are trying to create. The superpowers are random at best and are dictated by plot convenience (villains having access to dark magic choose trucks to run over their nemesis). The whole thing was a terrible mistake and the makers must never be let to forget it so that so that they don't pick stories written on napkins again. Summary: Plot made of sieve. Absolute waste of non-renewable resources