Rangoon (2017)

Absolutely Fantastic

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie is so boring, whole thing makes no sense what so ever. Do yourself a flavor and don't watch this. I made the mistake of doing so. Kangna do not look as good as she looks in other movies. Whole budget was spend on hiring known actors and actresses no budget left for story or for set just put camp in jungle and presume they make all money on 1st day with know actors and then sit. Horrible experience.

A great movie by Vishal Bhardwaj again. Seem to be a bit slow in the end but boils down later on. The story is spell bounding. Acting is awesome by all actors. Kudos to Vishal Bhardwaj. Simply awesome ! This movie will entertains you to the hilt and touches you in a manner that isn't as simple to decipher and understand as it seems to be. And why it should be? After all, it's a Vishal Bharadwaj movie.

Set in the Second World War era, the movie is a complete disaster from the start. Its yet another love triangle cliché with not even one descent song or dialogue. Had much better hopes from Vishal Bhardwaj. The ending is as bad (if not worse) and vague as the rest of the movie. The only descent part of the movie was Shahid Kapoor's acting which definitely wasn't enough to keep the audience from leaving the theaters half way through the movie.

Vishal Bharadwaj has come up with an excellent story and and a very strong script writing along with Mathew Robbins and Sabrina Dhawan. Set in the 1940's background where the Indians were subjected to the ideologies of freedom struggle advocated by Gandhiji and Netaji, the story takes off with the main protagonist Julia(Kangana Ranaut) dancing to the tunes of her mentor in the film industry Rusi or Rustom Billimoria(Saif Ali Khan). The story takes a twist when Julia requires to stage-perform herself to the soldiers on the Indo-Burma border where she gets to meet Nawab Mallik(Shahid Kapoor) who introduces her to herself and the true meaning of love. How Julia fights within herself to find who the true love of her life would be among Rusi and Nawab is what to be explored on the big screen.What I think Vishal Bharadwaj does best is he starts scripting his stories with people already in his mind. He repeated his best actors Saif Ali Khan from 'Omkara' and Shahid Kapoor from 'Haider'. Kangana Ranaut completes the ensemble of very strong and superb cast of this film. All the three leads are great when it comes to emoting those intense dialogues and the comic repartee's here and there. All Vishal's films in someway or the other have glimpses of Shakespeare's way of story telling. Each scene in his movies seem to emerge out of a beautiful painting on a canvas.Everything about this movie story, screenplay, production values, casting, and especially cinematography which actually takes you in to the period in which the story is set. And how can someone forget the Music and the Background score of the movie which needs a special mention. Off all the songs the two melodies from Arijit Singh especially 'Yeh Ishq Hai' takes you in to a different world altogether. All other songs are visual treat to watch and gives you a feel of ballet performances with huge colorful sets and backgrounds.The movie is good in all departments and full marks to the entire cast and crew of Rangoon.