deepak-narula Reviews

Leila (2019– )

Good plot and storyline of hope amidst suffering

[8/10 · 25 June 2019]

Superb story line. Possibly the first in India focussing on dystopian future. The shards of the story and it's settings does hints where Indian society is heading with a totalitarian regime at the helm. The direction and acting both deserves praise.

A word of caution : Though it is a work of fiction yet the story is inspired from the current political scenario and as such has not got down well with many fundamentalist supporters of current govt. If you are one of them kindly refrain from watching as you may find it bias but in actuality the plot deals with minority in the times when lynching of another human being is defending from national platforms.

Hope you find the series an eye opener and helpful in treating fellow human being as equally important life first and foremost over and above their religious dispersion.

Hope more such series can highlight the social truths but hope is a utopian word in the current secanrio. In any case series is worth its salt and definitely worth your time.

He Who Dares (2014)

why movies like this leaves the audience craving for peace of mind.

[2/10 · 12 April 2014]

So many movies just thrive on mass killing and lack of discretionary use of language to click with the norm of the times. He Who Dares happens to be no different.

To me it did not appeal from the word go. And here are the reasons.

Even a 10 year who has played Call of Duty or Battlefied series of games can tell you that you do aim down the sight and not fire from the hip. Wish the actors were told that.

Secondly now a days there is this new blood thirst in many low budget movies where the villain or the bad guy is glorified by mass murdering in order to achieve his goal. And when all the revenge is built psychologically speaking the valiant hero or one of the survivor in this case, kills the supposedly bad guy with one bullet, leaving the unsatisfied lust in the mind of audience that was generated by the storyline where the bad guy was the angel of death. Seriously ??

The movie is pure waste of time and resources.