The
much-awaited trailer of Padmavati is here and the first word that came to my
mind when I saw the trailer was ‘Kadak’.
After
Ram Leela and Bajirao Mastani, Sanjay Leela Bhansali really needed a bigger
canvas to show this story, and he did not miss out on that. The grandness of
the royal stories continues with the larger than life fort and battle scenes.
Bhansali has mastered the art of weaving stories with regional music that transcends
you to the era and the land of his characters and this trailer offers exactly
the same.
The
opening scene of of Ratan Singh and Padmavati, with their story nurturing with the
soft music, rippled by the tension of the Sufiyana beats with Khilji’s entry,
leave you wanting for more.
While
we all know the story of three protagonists, but it is Bhansali’s lens and sense
of storytelling adds to the glamour of this tale. Shahid as Ratan Singh shows
the same panache and pride that Ranveer had essayed in Bajirao Mastani and
Deepika as the doting and dutiful Padmavati completes the Raja-Rani story. The following dialogues by Shahid, scenes with
Deepika and the war scenes, are classic Bhansali, almost like a Rajput version
of Bajirao Mastani. Just as you feel
that there could not be a more powerful screen presence, Ranveer steals the screen,
mind, and power game with his despicable portrayal of Khilji.
Ranveer,
who despite being the villain, ends up being the hero of the trailer, and
probably will be what you take away when you walk out of the movie hall. The self-loving,
self-obsessed, selfish narcissism that Ranveer portrays in the movie gives you goose
bumps. From the trailer, it is obvious that he will turn out to be one of the epic
antagonists that we love to hate, like ‘The Joker’ in ‘The Dark Knight’. If the
movie is as good as the trailer, this would be Ranveer’s best performance till
date.
The
glimpse of intense scenes of three, coupled with powerful dialogues and
background score make the movie worth all the wait.
Basis the trailer, I think that this
period drama by Sanjay Leela Bhansali will get a 4/5 rating. Baki, picture abhi
baki hai!!
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Nicely reviewed...
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