Har Har Mahadev

It is extremely rare to get to watch a movie these days where you wouldn't dare to take your eyes off the screen for even a second. Har Har Mahadev is one such movie, where the screenplay is so tight it seems as though our heads are being held in place by invisible hands coming out of the screen.

A slow start is generally forgiven so long as the remainder of the movie makes up for it. However, in the case of this movie, that isn't applicable because as there are no filler scenes in it. Every scene is momentous which gives the screenplay its fluidity; the movie flies from scene to scene.

Baji Prabhu Deshpande's (Sharad Kelkar's) entry scene coupled with a vitalizing background score is the first goosebump-inducing scene of the movie, topped only by the second entry scene (if one may call it that) of Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj (played exceptionally well by Subodh Bhave.)

The dialogues are well-written, especially those spoken by Subodh Bhave; good enough to give a fair idea of how they would have sounded had Maharaj himself spoken those.

Sharad Kelkar's portrayal of Baji Prabhu Deshpande, more of his inner struggles than that of his valor, is near perfect.

Although a movie based on the same event (the battle of Pavan Khind) was released earlier this year, that is no reason to miss this magnificent movie which conveys a true story in a spectacular manner.

Do watch!