Brahmastra Part One: Shiva (2022)
This is the story of Shiva who sets out in search of love and self-discovery. During his journey, he has to face many evil forces that threaten our existence.
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Duration : 2h 47min
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Brahmastra wants to tell us a bedtime-type of fantasy story about a boy with special powers, a pyaari si commoner he meets and falls in love with and how he fights powerful evil forces to save her and the world from destruction.
There isn’t much to the love story except a bit of milna, dance karna on Kesariya, bichharna and then milna again. It’s the alternate world that the boy inhabits that powers the story. It’s a world explained to us in desi gobbledegook — the bharmaand (universe) is protected by various kinds of ancient shaktis, divine astra-shastra. There are the gods and the good guys who want the world to be a safe, happy place, and the bad guys who want to destroy and control the world.
Brahmastra conjures up a lot of Hindu devi-devtas and religious iconography, but its world is made up of stolen foreign items. Almost all its characters, weapons of mass destruction and plot lines are inspired by Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, The Eternals.
For the sake of supernatural thrills, we are okay even with this and want to go along.
The problem is that despite mining all available fantasy epics and superheroes, and inhabiting a vast expanse of 2 hours and 47 minutes, writer-director Ayan Mukerji can’t string together a coherent, compelling story about a boy and a girl stalked by the dark lord.
Brahmastra does have a few dramatic moments. Most of these are courtesy a starry cameo, a scary Mouni Roy, and a hyper-excited CGI department that keeps mounting laser shows. It also has some nice songs, but it is so inarticulate that it has to keep pausing the narrative to give us information, via a voiceover, about secret shaktis, deadly astras and evil designs.
Brahmastra is Ayan Mukerji’s third film in 13 years. Officially it cost Rs 410 crores and was five years in the making. The film goes to many places where we meet many people, but after every burst of action, there are long dry, dull patches where nothing happens. That’s because its screenplay is like a compendium of borrowed ideas and missed opportunities. And the result is a film that is a spectacle in search of a story.
Shiva (Ranbir Kapoor) is a DJ who plays music and dances at Dussehra parties. He is also, like Harry Potter, an orphan whose parents had superpowers and those have been passed on to him.
One day at a party he spots a girl and chases to tell her, “You are rich, I am poor”. Isha (Alia Bhatt) says she doesn’t mind, and visits his world that’s full of cute little orphans who tease Shiva about phasaoing a girl who is totally out of his league.