Movie Review: Kedarnath

Producers- Ronnie Screwvala and Pragya Yadav Kapoor

Director- Abhishek Kapoor

Star Cast- Sushant Singh Rajput, Sara Ali Khan, Nitish Bharadwaj, Pooja Gour

Genre- Social

Rating- ***

Sara steals the scene in this all too familiar plot

Jyothi Venkatesh

The feisty young lively girl Mandakini aka Mukku (Sara Ali Khan) lives in Kedarnath with her father (Nitish Bharadwaj) who is a local priest. Things get complicated when Mukku falls in love with a Muslim boy and local human porter Mansoor (Sushant Singh Rajput). The inter-faith romance between characters of different faith forms the core of the story, but destiny will otherwise and no one anticipates the other life-changing event, which takes this holy place by storm.

Unfortunately the film boasts of just an all-too-familiar love story, intertwined with the climactic floods that devastated civilization in the mountain town of Uttarakhand, in 2013. The screenplay has its strengths and weaknesses, one person who stands out and proves to be outstanding as a solid force is young debutante Sara Ali Khan, whose debut performance on celluloid has the right amount of fire to spark a connection instantly with the audience.

Sara reminds you of her boisterous mother Amrita Singh in films like Betaab and Chameli ki Shaadi. Though not exactly beautiful to the core, her supreme confidence and on- screen charm stand testimony to her ability and enormous talent Sara is sure to emerge as a major talent to reckon with in the years to come.In contrast, Sushant Singh in an underplayed role supports Sara’s efforts and is just about average. Using the devastating 2013 Uttarakhand floods as a major plot twist should have given the film some real-life gravitas. But the writing is sketchy, and the tone confused, never quite knowing whether to go quiet and life-like or to swell with wailing violins, especially when the waters start rising and life threatening danger starts looming.

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