Aazaan (2011)

Great Film overall

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I was trying to see it for a long time., Finally i made it today. For all those movie lovers its a must watch movie. People...you must watch this movie as it has got nice storyline. All though story gets loose here and there but it keeps you on the edge till the end. Best part of the movie is background score (I'm a frequent listener of Aazaan's songs)Awesome job by Salim - Suleiman and Salim merchant is awesome as usual for his songs. I wont forget this movie for one thing., Its expression less acting of Sachin (which was a turn off at times) but i'm sure he'll grow much more mature and good at his acting. Counting on you Sachin!! All N All, good movie. Love you all for reviewing this movie before me. Love you all movie lovers !!!!!

Watching a project such as AZAAN makes me sad because it is a perfect example of a misguided venture backed by a strong resourceful will of making a good film. It can easily be compared to a game wherein a person is holding a bunch of darts ready to hit the target-board. But after he throws them all, he finds out that where some less important ones have rightly hit the bull's eye, the other most important ones have gone far away from the main circle.Explaining the example given above, AZAAN has few great merits which should have essentially resulted in a fine movie. Like, it was marketed well and talks about a fresh subject of Bio-terrorism (spreading germs or viruses to kill a large number of people) which has never been exploited by any Hindi Film before so prominently. As required by the international plot it gets full support from its fabulous cinematography, brilliantly capturing the action sequences as well as its various world locations taking the viewer onto a multiple country tour. Plus it gets a very well composed & arranged background score which adds to the thriller aspect of the film perfectly along with few pretty decent tracks in its soundtrack like "Bismillah" and more.But all these merits become worthless in absence of the right kind of script, pace and performances required for such a project. In other words everything goes wrong in the film apart from these few points, sadly resulting in a poor show altogether. The director Prashant Chadha takes all his inspiration from the famous "BOURNE series" and other films made on the similar subject, but is not able to bring the same kind of excitement in his own film. The script goes on unimpressively, from being predictable to complicated travelling from one continent to another in fast cuts. Moreover the writers don't ever care to explain the concept of Bio-terrorism to the audience and take everything for granted. The romance factor looks like deliberately added as usual and the thrilling element is surprisingly completely missing in the film based on Global Terrorism.In the performance department, Sachin Joshi has got the looks but he actually doesn't match the vast scale of the project. He still needs to sharpen many aspects of his acting including his dialogue delivery. From rest of the cast Ravi Kissen tries hard but everyone else gets nothing written for them specifically in its weak script.On the whole AZAAN unarguably shows all the big money spent and many sincere efforts put in to convert it into a big success. But unfortunately its just like the case of constructing a fine smooth road towards a wrong direction. And it really makes you feel sad watching such an effort being made without any proper directions.

Just saw the movie and I've to say it's an outstanding movie. I have seen Mission Impossible and Bourne Identity series and then to watch this Bollywood flick is something more than appreciable. I had to write a review for this movie because I'm just in love with the movie. The action sequences, music, acting and definitely the ACTION is mind-blowing. By now hopefully you should get a jist of the potential of the movie. Indian spy, amazing directing skills, beautiful cinematography and definitely mind-blasting background music to support each scene makes this movie a must-watch for the season. Guys, this diwali there is just another reason to celebrate, Go and watch Aazaan if you love Action genre from the bottom of your heart.

Azaan is an attempt to make a spy action thriller of Hollywood echelon and makers have partly succeeded in their job. The movie is shot exotically, and seems polished but misses out the real thrill element of an action thriller. Thanks to very poor screenplay, a viewer is never connected with the movie, and thus enjoys this stylish odyssey at a superficial level only.Sachin Joshi isn't apt choice for this movie. The actor, who is also the producer of the movie, is unfortunately, a big letdown. If he would have casted some veteran actor of Bollywood and invested good amount in publicity and marketing, and the movie would have turned a money making machine for him.Unfortunately, one of the most expensive movies of Bollywood (precisely 180 crores) will flop without notice of the people.I can easily summarize my experience of Azaan as follows.Good: Cinematography (arguably, the best that Bollywood has even seen) Background Score (Undoubtedly, the best that Bollywood has heard this year till date) Novel theme (biological warfare and undercover agent concept)Bad: Sachin Joshi's performance (and strictly okay performances from veterans like Dilip Tahil and Sajid Hassan due to scare scope) Scattered screenplay (probably the worst one for such a tight-edited movie)Nevertheless, I will watch this movie again, just to hear the background score by Salim – Sulaiman.