Sikandar
Language: Hindi
Director: Piyush Jha
Writers: Piyush Jha
Release Date: 21 August 2009 (India)
Cast: Parzun Dastur, Sanjay Suri, R Madhavan
Producers: Sudhir Mishra Production, Big Pictures
Music: Loy Mendonca, Ehsaan Noorani, Shankar Mahadevan, Justin, Uday, Sandesh Shandilya
Cinematography: Somak Mukherjee
Film Editing: Dev Jadhav
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Nice attempt to look at violence, specific to Kashmir in this case, through the eyes of children, but things have been depicted a bit simplistically. Parzaan Dastur carries the film well
A very honest look at the loss of innocence. It focuses on the children of Kashmir caught up in the cycle of violence where the line dividing right from wrong often gets fudged over past wrongs. The fairytale ending might not be realistic but is in keeping with its intended audience. A nice if not excellent movie.
Many films suggest that since filmmaking is a technical thing so Films can be made but they also make it clear that it is certainly a very difficult task to make a GOOD FILM.
Sikandar while tries to touch the subject of effect of terroristic phase on the lives of common people living in Kashmir but the story chosen to touch this subject does not look impressive.
I wonder if director and/or producer ever got an opportunity to read a good story, Cross Firing, written by the writer and director Ved Rahi, on such a topic.
That story could have supplied the required solid base to the director and producer on which duo could have built a good film.
Film is caught between two different genres. It seems conflict was there whether to make it a serious film making a social commentary on the general atmosphere of state of J&K during terrorism or to make it a fictitious thriller kind of film where message comes in a hidden manner. This conflict splits the film and hence affects its overall quality also. Though few things work in social nature of the film and few works in thriller part of the film but overall satisfaction of watching a good film does not come through this film.
So many times memories of TV serial Gul Gulshan Gulfam come back to mind and it seems that serial was better than this film at least in the parts where family and social concerns are shown.
Even crucial scenes like killing of a terrorist by protagonist boy have got faulty depiction and scenes were not shot again to make them effective and flawless.
Van Helsing type Back ground music did not work in favour of the film especially when film is set in Kashmir and camera is showing so much natural beauty spread all around.
Young actors are good. Ayesha Kapoor may attain success early in next few years.
Parzaan Dastur- If he wishes to play a long innings in acting then he must show some control over the desire of doing films for few years till he gets a complete transformation to a young man on physical level.
He must take lesson from the career of few other male child stars. Gap of few years may help him.
This is a transition phase for him and he must go to face the life in real sense and this is time when he can study cinema and associated areas on a serious basis. There are not many roles for teenagers in hindi films so he wont lose much but this preparation will pave the way for him to become a long-race-horse.
Considering Sanjay Suri is a Kashmiri and perhaps has faced the sorrow of leaving (a forced one) the valley because of emergence of insurgence in the valley, it was expected that he would churn out a powerful performance because this was his chance to use the volcano of suppressed emotions but sadly and surprisingly he remained almost flat.
An actor does not always get such an opportunity where his personality is completely dissolved in to the character because character also faces the same situations which either actor has been facing or has seen from close quarters. Sanjay Suri misses this opportunity and makes his character a filmi and hackneyed.
Madhwan too looked like showing his presence only with little intererst in his character.
I went to see this film with good expectation and was disappointed. Story is poor and execution poorer. Below average. Wasted opportunity.
It’s a reasonably good take on terrorism in Kashmir with an unusual POV.The movie had potential but somehow seems to have been a case of oppurtunity not well utilised.Giving a 2.5 rating though primarily for the basic premise of the film.