Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)

How sad is this?

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This movie has multiple layers, each fascinating in its own right. One layer gives you a glimpse into ineptness of and corruption in Congress party which fails to recognize visionary talents. Other layer shows ceaseless bullying by USA and how they care least about international peace and care only about maintaining a stranglehold on other countries to maintain their super power status. Yet another layer shows the relentless patriotism, driving individuals to lift the nation to great heights, including the visionaries in often misunderstood nationalistic party, BJP.Yet PARMANU is not about the parties or countries it is about the burning passion a patriot has to make the impossible possible to change the future of the country while risking family and personal life. Its a great manifestation of will power to achieve the goal of making India a Nuclear State which catching the bully (USA) off guard.A must watch!!!

Pros: Based on true events, which undoubtedly is a pride of any sensible Indian Cons: Everything else. Just coz this is based on a true event (especially a proud moment) doesn't automatically makes this movie a good one. Story telling is lazy, character building is lazy. Not one character with whom one can relate or even understand their background except someone saying "he's brilliant, he's awesome". Gimme a break. Dont tell me, SHOW me. That's what movie is about.Technical aspect of the Pokhran test is so diluted as if it looks like connecting a dynamite using wires and pulling the switch. Nothing about the challenges they've faced is shown except brushing the surface of it.When i read about Pokhran, clearly it's notable that they've missed the basic thing, which is the hard work put in by each one of the team member.John Abraham and the IB girl- God save their acting. Others acting is passable at best, except Boman Irani, who doesn't have much screen time.This move, from a story telling point of view, kinda sucks. Just coz I'm Indian, I've given this 5/10.

This was the best ever movie bollywood has ever produced...soo proud...so elevated...so nicely done...proud of john and all the other cast members...!

Pokhran test is one of the most important historic events of our nation. There was a huge potential to make this story a classic movie. But if you give an amazing story to a bunch of people who grew up watching typical Hindi Masala movie such as Hum Apke hai Kaun and so on, what do you expect?. This team has made this historic event into a typical Hindi Masala with songs, dance, overacting, poor comedy and so on. I was thrilled when I saw that a movie was made based on this incident, but I was totally devastated by the quality. Even the folks who gave high ratings here have not seen good movies in my humble opinion, but grew up watching the likes of Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan masala. Lakshya was a much better movie compared to this, even with the masala in it. Directors should understand the context, and avoid unnecessary fillings such as poor comedy, Love and so on. This movie should have been realistic, and not "masaledar", and as a patriot, I hate it when someone distorts a true story of National importance!!