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Haseena Parkar Movie Review: Shraddha's film is both pointless and gutless...
Read the Pinkvilla review for Shraddha Kapoor's movie Haseena Parkar.
Haseena Parkar is a terrible film. And stop blaming Shraddha Kapoor for it. Yes, she is a miscast from the word go but if anyone were serious about making a film based on the life of Haseena, they wouldn’t cast Shraddha for it. C’mon, the girl was earnest, to say the least. That doesn’t ensure that Apoorva Lakhia has even remotely made a film. Infact, it is a pointless, gutless saga that neither gives you any insight into the life of Haseena and neither puts forth a staunch argument for or against her. It’s a courtroom drama which unfolds at a snail’s pace tracing her life’s journey. The lawyers, who clearly seemed law school rejects fight and bicker, never presenting a solid ground for or against Haseena. At one point, even the judge says, “Hum inpe novel nahin likh rahe hai..” Hard to not make a mental note for the most believable dialogue in the history of Hindi cinema.
If a layman walks into watch this film, he wouldn’t make any headway in finding out about the lady in question or her equation with her brother. In fact, Dawood Ibrahim is the most shabbily treated character. It’s a shame that Siddhant Kapoor, who is a passable chap otherwise, looks nothing better than a clown in a few of the film’s later scenes. Shraddha’s journey herself from a timid girl to an action queen picking up fights with local miscreants – men and women alike, is never said well defined.
To top it all, the actor’s looks are so jarring. Shraddha speaks with a mouthful, quivering in most emotional scenes. There’s an odd love making sequence which is out of the blue. Then there is pregnancy and four children, with hardly anything concrete to show for it. Instead of Haseena Parkar, the film should’ve been titled – “Yeh Random hai…” That’d be both appropriate and befitting, besides giving people a fair idea of what they are getting into.
As reviewers, we seldom have that luxury. Which is why we are constantly looking for distractions in bad films. You can probably find yours in judging Shraddha’s tacky clothes. Newspapers suggest that the film’s designers have sued the actress and the producers for not using their outfits for promotions. We’d say, good move Shraddha. A bad career is bad enough for you. You don’t need bad clothes to top it all.
As for the director, who is feisty and outspoken, Lakhia has made a film without an opinion. He slyly slips in his love for the muse – Haseena but plays it safe. Hard to blame him because he is making the movie in such intolerant times. Lack of any feeling for the character on whom the film is named or based simply shows that he didn’t want to take sides. He shows us a sketchy view of the woman but never quite explores how she took over her brother’s empire in India and suddenly became Aapa. May be we’d have to wait for Hussain Zaidi to write all about her and Anurag Kashyap to make it. Till then, let’s try and forget something as awful as this was ever created. Poor Shraddha, such a waste of her hard work.
We rate the film a 30% on the Pinkvilla Movie Meter.
