Fighter is an action adventure war thriller film directed by siddharth anand.
Hrithik roshan is a force to reckon with in this film. He has a real character arc and he manages to do justice with it. Playing a character that has lost a great deal in life, is a broken down machine, is tough, that too in a commercial entertainer. But hrithik, due to his potential and talent manages to make the character real. Deepika padukone has been given an emotional nervepoint but it doesn't work because of the over the top theatrics. Ashutosh rana is cast as her father for one scene, which is effective only due to rana and not the emotion fuelling it. The characters of bash and taj played by akshay oberoi and karan singh grover are underwritten and lack meat. Anil kapoor had a transformation too quick for human understanding and it left a sour taste. A man who believes that he lost his sister due to patty surely cannot forgive him as per convenience and plot point. It has to be organic.
The screenplay starts well, the armed force camarederie is well set up, the first song is even nicely placed, heer asmani. But thereafter, the song placement goes haywire. Multiple scenes are hijacked by wrong song placements, breaking continuity and flow of the story. You see an intense aerial fight cut to the song sher khul gaye, its abrupt to say the least. The screenplay otherwise is good. The cinematography is generic in some places and rash in some others. The camera never allows us to settle in on a scene for a comfortable amount of time. The vfx is strictly average, it becomes more evident when helicopters and fighter jets crash in the mountains. The nod to pulwama attack and its emergence in the story is used well to set up the motives of the characters and the air force as general.
It also doesn't help the film that the pakistanis torture bash and not taj when in confinement. The effect and consequence would have been same had the characters been swapped. The makers' intention was to point out and differentiate between good and bad muslims but I think it was already clear when bash and hundreds of others like him are already in the air force. In the final fight scene, patty while bashing azhar opines "tu kisi bhi mulk ka nhi h" but then goes on to say lines like "pakistan IOP ban jayega" as if he cares for all it matters. The dialogues are pretty unnecessary at some points. The background score is enhilirating but loud in many places, constantly nagging us to feel rather than let us feel. The antagonist played by rishabh sawhney is pretty weak and doesn't extract any hate or disgust for the character.
This is a film drawn with broad strokes, which is fine until it hampers the quality of the film.
Hrithik roshan is a force to reckon with in this film. He has a real character arc and he manages to do justice with it. Playing a character that has lost a great deal in life, is a broken down machine, is tough, that too in a commercial entertainer. But hrithik, due to his potential and talent manages to make the character real. Deepika padukone has been given an emotional nervepoint but it doesn't work because of the over the top theatrics. Ashutosh rana is cast as her father for one scene, which is effective only due to rana and not the emotion fuelling it. The characters of bash and taj played by akshay oberoi and karan singh grover are underwritten and lack meat. Anil kapoor had a transformation too quick for human understanding and it left a sour taste. A man who believes that he lost his sister due to patty surely cannot forgive him as per convenience and plot point. It has to be organic.
The screenplay starts well, the armed force camarederie is well set up, the first song is even nicely placed, heer asmani. But thereafter, the song placement goes haywire. Multiple scenes are hijacked by wrong song placements, breaking continuity and flow of the story. You see an intense aerial fight cut to the song sher khul gaye, its abrupt to say the least. The screenplay otherwise is good. The cinematography is generic in some places and rash in some others. The camera never allows us to settle in on a scene for a comfortable amount of time. The vfx is strictly average, it becomes more evident when helicopters and fighter jets crash in the mountains. The nod to pulwama attack and its emergence in the story is used well to set up the motives of the characters and the air force as general.
It also doesn't help the film that the pakistanis torture bash and not taj when in confinement. The effect and consequence would have been same had the characters been swapped. The makers' intention was to point out and differentiate between good and bad muslims but I think it was already clear when bash and hundreds of others like him are already in the air force. In the final fight scene, patty while bashing azhar opines "tu kisi bhi mulk ka nhi h" but then goes on to say lines like "pakistan IOP ban jayega" as if he cares for all it matters. The dialogues are pretty unnecessary at some points. The background score is enhilirating but loud in many places, constantly nagging us to feel rather than let us feel. The antagonist played by rishabh sawhney is pretty weak and doesn't extract any hate or disgust for the character.
This is a film drawn with broad strokes, which is fine until it hampers the quality of the film.
