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Watched Kalki:
It is a rare film where the ‘revelation’ in the climax elevates the film to such a large extent that the lackluster and ultra boring scenes stand forgiven in that very instance, and you leave the theatre with a ‘somewhat’ satisfying experience. The other sequences that deserve praise are the Mahabharat ones (they’re spellbinding, to say the least) and those involving Bachchan. The megastar’s persona is so well captured that the screen lights up with his aura and assumes a different character every time he looks into the camera. But the film still does him injustice, even when he features in the best action scenes in the film.
In a wannabe effort to replicate the world of the Dunes and Avengers and Mad Maxes, the film forgets about the very solid source material at hand — the Mahabharat. The epic’s references are reduced to the very end of the Kurukshetra war: Bhishma on the bed of arrows, Abhimanyu with the wheel just before falling dead, Ashwatthama the elephant perished, Drona about to be beheaded, and Karna’s wheel stuck in sand, leading to his end. Depiction of kaliyug through wars and famines and communal disturbances is also impressive. The Lord Krishna—Ashwatthama conversation is pure gold and two minutes of cinematic magic, though I wished the VFX were better. There’s also inconsistency in that Arjun and Karna’s faces are kept as is but Ashwatthama’s is laden with special effects.
Not sure what Prabhas’s character was getting at, but he is one of the major contributors of the film’s underwhelming aspects. The film dips to shockingly mediocre levels in the scenes he appears. His introduction scene is embarrassingly bad, and his attitude makes things worse. It’s also almost criminal that he makes a mess of the decent one liners that he gets, while an actor like Bachchan is expected to take his taunts lying down with a stoic expression. Prabhas, literally and figuratively, comes across as a darn amateur in front of the 81 year old megastar, who gobbles him up without evern trying.
the second half, with the exception of its initial 45 minutes, is fairly decent and the climax makes you sit up and notice. It’s a little too late by then, and the film for all its technoglitz and conjured dystopian world doesn’t exactly impress. All I was rhinking of was why would the film ape the Fury Road concept when it had the mother of all stories as its reference point. All it had to do was fill in the gaps with a half-decent, original storyline that was fairly engrossing.
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