Panipat
Starring Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon
Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker
Costume dramas in Indian cinema frequently mistake flamboyance and bombast for nostalgic entertainment. Panipat is the first film of its genre that doesn’t insult history by distorting and subverting it to suit the filmmaker’s massy purposes. Even when Sadashiv Rao Bhau, Gowariker’s 18th century Maratha warrior who dreamt of a united India to fight foreign invasion and who craved for no throne or crown, goes to war he carries himself with the dignity of a peacenik.
One of the film’s finest dialogues and there many luminously written lines in this fine historical drama comes when Sadashiv catches his wife trying out the crown in front of the mirror.
“Taj pehna nahin jata, pehnaya jata hai,” he gently tells his impulsive brave and devoted wife.
Elsewhere, before he leaves for war with the Islamic invader...
Starring Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Kapoor, Kriti Sanon
Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker
Costume dramas in Indian cinema frequently mistake flamboyance and bombast for nostalgic entertainment. Panipat is the first film of its genre that doesn’t insult history by distorting and subverting it to suit the filmmaker’s massy purposes. Even when Sadashiv Rao Bhau, Gowariker’s 18th century Maratha warrior who dreamt of a united India to fight foreign invasion and who craved for no throne or crown, goes to war he carries himself with the dignity of a peacenik.
One of the film’s finest dialogues and there many luminously written lines in this fine historical drama comes when Sadashiv catches his wife trying out the crown in front of the mirror.
“Taj pehna nahin jata, pehnaya jata hai,” he gently tells his impulsive brave and devoted wife.
Elsewhere, before he leaves for war with the Islamic invader...
- 12/6/2019
- by Subhash K Jha
- Bollyspice
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