THANA SADAR (Punjabi) - Yet again follows the typical Bollywood format. (Review by Bobby Sing) |
Punjabi cinema has successfully cracked the comedy genre in the last decade, but still struggling to deliver worth appreciating films in the other genres. Taking one step forward and two backward, the cinema here largely gets conceived in the awe of Hindi films and Thana Sadar is the latest example proving the fact.
Following the typical format of a Bollywood masala movie, the film yet again presents all the familiar elements of a larger-than-life hero (a cop), his slow-motion entry, confrontations, action (displaying the body), love songs, and an item number in the villain’s den too trying no innovation of any kind from start to finish. The writers also add a sub-plot of drugs and youngsters fed up with corruption, just to make it a socially relevant film with a message. However, the writing and the loud background score intentionally never try to break the set pattern, constantly moving on the same, exactly like the 80s Hindi films.
Bobby Sing
(bobbytalkscinema.com)
NOTE : The article was first published in THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL Newspaper (Mumbai Edition) on 16th November 2021.
17 Nov 2021 /
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