Played by Varun Dhawan, eyes tinged with kohl and misery, Zafar brings Kalank alive, a blacksmith forging swords with serrated edges, speaking in lines as lethal. The pretty girl is Roop, the outsider is Baahar Begum, the upright lady is Satya, her husband is Dev (like in pati-dev), and the boy who wins women over is named Zafar, meaning victor. The girl - Roop (Alia Bhatt) - may agree, caught in a passionless marriage via Victorian circumstances: a wealthy woman with a few years to live has brought Roop to be her husband’s bride after she passes away. “You sing well,” says the courtesan to a young ingenue, “but there isn’t enough salt.” This indefinable namak goes a long way in Indian art, and the older woman blames the blandness on a potential lack of spice in the girl’s life. The result is beautiful but tedious, an opera that needed a stout songstress to warble through it midway. Watch - Raja Sen’s movie review of Kalankĭirected by Abhishek Varman and shot by the masterful Binod Pradhan, the makers of Kalank not only want every frame to be a painting, but every dialogue a proverb, every scene a portent. Rioters holding swords march in fiery streets, dressed as if they’d first bickered about a suitably Prussian shade of blue. We see revolutionaries wearing different shades of mustard, with a scene set around the kite festival of Basant Panchami, but, as Kalank goes on, we are conditioned to exorbitant colours frequently matching - from scarlet umbrellas to marsala walls and columns. In a disreputable neighbourhood, a courtesan stands in her doorway while gondoliers paddle about in what looks to be a moat behind her, and later, when she feels the need to cry, she walks first to the centre of the elaborate golden motifs painted on her floor before dropping to her knees and wailing cinematically. Supposedly set in pre-Independent India, Kalank appears instead to have been filmed inside a ‘Good Earth’ catalogue curated by Baz Luhrmann. Ultimately, this is a movie with grand aims, but it overstays its welcome - its runtime is 166 minutes - and begins to feel like a parody by the end.Cast - Varun Dhawan, Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapur, Sonakshi Sinha, Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Duttįirst things first, the film is gorgeous. Unfortunately Kalank is unlikely to win them over, nor is it likely to entertain audiences already familiar with Bollywood. The historical backdrop of pre-independence India and the civil unrest that ensues might entice some viewers to dip their toe into a movie industry that they are unfamiliar with. There is a touch too much slow-motion - albeit fitting for the melodramatic tone - and the derivative soundtrack features a motif lifted directly from Titanic that plays relentlessly throughout the movie. But thanks to a strong cast, for the most part, it plays out convincingly. As a result, it can feel a little off-kilter for Western audiences.
This Bollywood movie is a big-budget affair and - one questionable CGI bull aside - is beautifully shot with a grand sense of scale. The key hook of the story - a woman befriending her friend's husband in order to marry him after her friend dies - is culturally very different from how it might play in a movie from the West.
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