User Reviews

Why do you have to prepare for IIT when you can't even write class tests properly. Just because your parents can afford the coaching fees, it doesn't make you and IIT aspirant. You need to have the vision, intelligence, need, urge lots of things to be one. Coming to the he movie context Akshay Kumar with his team has taken Indian audiences for granted. They think they will churn out idiotics in name of nationalism and patriotic that has nothing to do with a good cinema and will make hugeoney and name as well. Back to back similar nationalism in movies with over dose of entertainment and we have this mangal mission. When I saw the trailer, I felt insulted today he core. My brother in law works in DRDO and I have been there and I see and know how it feels to be an engineer and a scientist working on such mission critical assignments. This movie was and is a joke on scientists. Look at the characters, Sonakshi Sinha, Vidya balans acting and mannerisms straight from her Shanti amla hair oil set, Akshay Kumar, straight from padman set. Look at the cinematography, the colors on screen, the script, the rest of th crew and the vision of director. Songs....are you serious? I left in Midway and came back as my office teammates asked to sit and end the torture so that we could go to a pub after this grave insult. Space and science movies with dose of comedy, songs and unwanted scenses and dialogs. These kind of movies make the whole world.think upon us about the vision and ideas we have in terms of creativity. Utter rubbish and disgrace to the team of Mars mission who were involved in the movie.

Bollywood can't even make a proper horror movie, forget about epic ones. They took this topic and made it into a joke, just to make money as it's still in our minds and public will take it as chandrayan 2 is still fresh. This is not cinema, this is clickbait and just to make Akshay and his team rich as fast as it can. Pathetic.

MISSION MANGAL - With this film my unsatisfactory run continues on with 'True story based movie starring Akhsay Kumar in lead' including Airlift, Rustam, Toilet - Ek Prem Katha, Gold and Kesari with PADMAN being the only exception which i liked a lot.

This one is not your usual fact based movie (like almost every other true story starring Akshay). Because even if you don't know all the facts about the Mission (just like me), the way things happened in the film you can easily judge that No-Way in reality things would have happened in this way. So first suggestion would be Watch this movie with a lot of GRAIN OF SALT. For comparison i would say 'Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran' was a better movie made in a realistic and fact based way.

But this movie is nowhere bad or anything. Its a decent entertainment. Infact some may like it a lot or even love it, who just want to get entertained doesn't care much about to know the realistic ways of working in ISRO or doesn't mind OVER-SIMPLIFIED science. This movie makes you feel like the Mission was so easy to accomplish and the ideas were so easy to come by. For example in one scene Sonakshi's character just utters the word "Its Impossible" upon which she gets an Angry speech from Akshay to do her job rightly. And the next morning she came up with the idea to solve the problem. Its like the scolding was the magical thing to open a Scientist's mind.

Nevertheless, some things which i really liked are the portrayal of Women in the movie and the role reversal. There have been uncountable movies where we see Men doing important jobs and wife being at home sometimes being supportive and sometimes not. That role is totally reversed here. Which i really loved. It makes you realize that in this predominate world were it has been made Universal Rule that its just Mother's Job to nurture there child (Dialogues from a husband to her wife like - tumhe to bas job ki padi hei, bachon tumhare bigad rahe hein & ETC) how difficult it is for working Women to manage Work with Home. Much more difficult then its more Men.

Vidya Balan is in the front and center of the film. Infact i think its not Akhsay who should have been the big face on the Poster, rather it should have been Balan. I mean seriously , she literally had longer screen time in the movie then Akhsay. But you know Akshay Kumar sells ticket, so that,s that. But thankfully Women in this film got great characters, and i mean each and everyone. And every actress did really good job with her character even if some of them didn't got enough screen time.

The Direction in comparison is not so perfect. Again its not bad at all , rather the First Time director shows that he has good hands to control a film but he also shows that right now he is a little inexperienced. He couldn't made the scenes tighter, couldn't raise enough excitement which could have made this movie better. In comparison he handles the funny scenes pretty brilliantly.

The movie is long. And it takes almost 60-65% of the movie to finish for the actual mission to start.

It was just too Bollywoodised. The science was too simplified. the tension was not there. Rather it was a fun movie. And i didn't wanted the movie which was based on one of the Biggest Achievement of my Country to be just a 'FUN MOVIE'. I wanted it to be something more then that.

7.1/10

By ANuP APu KuMaR