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About 20 minutes after the filming of Thugs of Hindostan, the best actor of the film appears. This is the Khudabaksh eagle and you will not dare to send it back just because it is computer generated.
The eagle makes an entrance before Aamir Khan and saves the day more often than Firangi. Katrina Kaif, one of the film's heroines, spends more time on screen. The cries of the eagle arouse more emotion than the face of Amitabh Bachchan, who is for the most part suffocated under a cloth and a false beard. While the eagle communicates emotions such as worry and triumph, the only thing flatter and stiffer than Bachchan's face is Kaif's abdomen.
The true revelation of Thugs of Hindostan is not the fact that she brought in 50 crores of Rs in a day. Even if it is a stunning figure, it makes sense to think of the followers of Khan and Bachchan and to keep in mind that it has been centuries since we had a real blockbuster masala in cinemas. The 45% drop in box office revenue on the second day is also logical: it's hard to imagine anyone will not be disappointed by Thugs of Hindostan.
The film features two of Bollywood's most reliable actors who are not too big to fail. The only thing the audience can expect from Khan and Bachchan is a good actor. So of course, the Thugs of Hindostan script ignores all the other characters to glorify Firangi (Khan) and Khudabaksh (Bachchan). Even if not a spark of Khan and Bachchan can not escape their faces at elaborate makeup, the film fails to recover.
Khan's Firangi exhausts the viewer with verbal and exaggerated diarrhea. Beside Khan's manic bend, Buccaneer, Bachchan looks grumpy and exhausted. His Khudabaksh so needs new batteries that he can barely move his lips to speak. It is tempting to imagine Thugs of Hindostan with two actors who have not falsified it so badly. A little chemistry and energy might have led the public to get lost in the ridiculous Technicolor, an excellent production design and smooth visual effects (1965).
When you buy a ticket for a Bollywood movie, with the money you give it to you, you expect logic, historical accuracy and originality in the plot. Which means that no one was watching Thugs of Hindostan was expecting an intensive course on how the British had eliminated Thuggees in the 1830s (some academics think thugs are a British invention). Nobody would have also raised eyebrows when the villain of the film was called Clive and that most of the actions took place in 1806 (Clive of India died in 1774). Few would have worried that Khan's Firangi and this flying prank of ships gave Thugs of Hindostan the appearance of a Pirates of the Caribbean fan fiction. Those who have noticed the similarities between Zafira and Legolas in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy (Braids: Check.Archery: Check.Pouty lips: Check.Acrobatics: Check) may have even applauded a little louder because Is one of the few surprises of the film.
Unfortunately, when you are bored instead of entertained, you end up noticing that everything is fine.
For example, how is it that Raunakpur in Thugs of Hindostan is presented as landlocked on the map, but does it have a coastline that could be (and is) just outside Malta? Why do two English people speak in Hindi? Who are these Indians who can blend into a crowd of white Englishmen by putting on a (bad) blonde wig? Why would Khudabaksh trust in the protection of his loved one to a man he has just discovered as a traitor? How is it that the Dussehra celebrations in Raunakpur give the impression of returning to the history of the Himmatwala of 1983? Does the fact – SPOILER ALERT – that the villain gets his bliss from a girl offsets the little time allotted to the female characters of Thugs of Hindostan and the fact that Kaif is on the screen four times, the camera is concentrate on it
Before you know it, there are more questions than popcorn and, even if the popcorn is finished, the film does not remain one.
First published: Nov. 10, 2018 23:12 IST
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