Mardaani 3 movie review: Khoob ladi mardaani…

Mardaani 3Director Abhiraj MinawalaActors Rani Mukerji Mallika PrasadRating 3 starsItrsquos taken me rather long to draw the connection that since Rani Mukerji plays the lead in this franchise Mardaani the title comes from Subhadra Kumari Chauhanrsquos poetic tribute to the rani of Jhansi from 1857 rebellion lsquoKhoob ladi mardaanihelliprsquoThat said the film itself is fine counterpoint to machoman rodeo savage heroes that we are more used to onscreen watching their hair fly in the air as they swing on harnesses like circus clownsWhile equally feisty and very much an actioner still Mardaani adds a suitably feminine energy with a heroine in the same part The stakes on the face of it may not seem as high as hypermasculine heroes affecting transnational politics as it wereThe lead cop Shivani Shivaji Roy mark the middlename chiefly specialises in relatively more local crimes against women trafficking of minors in this case and in the previous ones tooBut then again someone only has to mention Epstein files about powerful paedophiles for the American President to go around invading another country as we speakSo whorsquos to say female minors pushed into prostitution isnrsquot grave enough to alter the globeBe that as it may the plot here mercifully gets slightly denser stillIn the sense that we know little girls are getting picked up from the boondocks to serve as beggars on streets But the villains are on the lookout for a particular type of girls samplingtesting their blood alongside making you wonder whatrsquos really at play beyond the obviousAs an audience this assists you with staying hooked to what happens next In addition to whatrsquos going on of courseThe screenplay and dialogues are credited to Aayush Gupta The Railway Men with story attributed to Deepak Kingrani Sirf Ek Bandaa Kaafi Hai Baljeet Singh Marwah along with AayushTheir script sufficiently detailed plays out with a bunch of twists where itrsquos hard to tell between the good guys and the bad guysSome of it clearly contrived Yeah and I do have a few questions in that regard But they border on spoilers I do wish for you to watch the film So saving that for whenif I meet the abovementioned blokes sometimeWhile the crimes depicted in the picture under the larger begging syndicatemafia apparently have been going for a while Mardaani starts off with the unintended kidnapping of a lirsquol girl in Bulandshahar UPThe action shifts to the nationrsquos capital nearby with chaosconfusion over ransom swiftly executed in a packed Delhi metro station by the newish director Abhiraj Minawala oldtime assistant with the producers Yash RajThe missing kid happens to be an Indian ambassadorrsquos daughter Hence the demand for state intervention through the special cop Shivani whorsquos had a fairly impossible career as a police officer if you ask meWhat with starting out as an inspector in Mumbairsquos crime branch first part to an SP in Rajasthan sequel and then with the CRPF currently deputed for a special investigation by Indiarsquos home secretaryTherersquos no need to look particularly incredulous Shersquos a whiz alright cracking complicated clues like easypeasy puzzles in her headPhysically I donrsquot think petite Rani ever fit this part Well neither did lanky Bachchan when he pulled off the fightmaster lsquoangry young manrsquoWhatrsquos undeniable is her connect I attribute a lot of it to the rsquo90s Forget fad diets and longevity science therersquos something the stars from that decade ate along with butterchicken or maachhbhaat that the longevity of their careers seems infiniteItrsquod be hard for many 30yearold actors to match Ranirsquos vigour and energy Shersquos been around in the movies for 30 yearsHerersquos the thing though The first Mardaani came out in 2014 the year Indiarsquos politics changed As did our screenviewing experience shortly after mdash with OTTs streaming content almost entirely focussed on dark crime thrillers Many of them with female cops in the centreFor instance the Indian series Irsquom watching now Daldal almost right after Delhi Crime 3 and the one I intend to catch next Kohrra 2 are all police procedurals with female stars playing copsWhat remains Mardaanirsquos USP then I suspect the fact that the maincharacter energies have equally emanated from freshly introduced villains who scripted decent careers for themselves thereafter Tahir Raj Bhasin from one Vishal Jethwa twoNot gonna compare here The main villain in Mardaani 3 is a woman Mallika Prasad who could well be a dark alterego of Rani herself mdash same light brown eyes husky voice slightly calm demeanourTherersquos a scene where this dark female lord of fleshtrade turns around from a quilt in bed to reveal herselfI felt a slight jolt as if experiencing Sadashiv Amrapurkar from Sadak for a sec I got goosebumps observing her over a couple of scenes afterYes this can only happen in a dark hall Nope it wouldnrsquot on a small screen at home

Mardaani 3 movie review: Khoob ladi mardaani…

Mardaani 3
Director: Abhiraj Minawala
Actors: Rani Mukerji, Mallika Prasad
Rating: 3 stars

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Mardaani 3 movie review: Khoob ladi mardaani…

Mardaani 3Director: Abhiraj MinawalaActors: Rani Mukerji, Mallika PrasadRating: 3 stars

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Mardaani 3
Director: Abhiraj Minawala
Actors: Rani Mukerji, Mallika Prasad
Rating: 3 stars