Wazir – Average thriller with disappointing second half

In reality, it is an interesting exercise for a scriptwriter to express his vision in a story. However, it is very tough for him to implement the same in the film using dialogues. This movie is a prime example where scriptwriter fails in the second half and delivers a fragmented script. He also builds too many expectations of the audience at the end of first half and provides poor performance in second half.  The audience leaves the theater with the feeling that it could have been much better if these guys ( Director/Scriptwriter) could think little better about the handling the revenge drama.

This movie opens with wedding scene where boy looks at the beautiful girl. Beautiful romantic environment, blue sky above, the couple gets married, and camera moves slowly capturing everything in slow-motion much similar to that of contemporary cinema. Actually, it is excellent idea to run the initial part of the story via song and complete it in five minutes.  Story moves ahead with a couple growing in love and this and one day the tragedy hits the couple.  The main Protagonist meets an old man who is suffering from similar pain. And later, two wounded men coming together and taking on a powerful enemy.

What’s most striking about “Wazir”  is the first  half. In the first half,  “there are neither extraneous characters nor situations, and we’re not given much information outside of that which drives the story”. Our anchor who narrates the story to us is the “Chessboard”. We must applaud the writer for the use of the chessboard to build script. This is potential revenue drama which lacks the essentials of the great fight between the enemies. To develop the script further, writer uses dialogues like “Chess provides you second chance however life doesn't “. This dialogue was not much impressive to me but look like the one of the conceptual blocks of the script.

Also, this is one of the movies where the Law of Economy of Characters began to apply. The  law that says no actor is in a film unless his character is necessary and should not give any dialogues to any character unless it is absolutely essential. In this movie, the female character named “ Ruhana” has so fewer dialogues and her presence without dialogues has been used multiple times. This could have been treated otherwise.

There was a point in the movie when suddenly everything clicked in the second half;  Audience realizes the entire plot all of sudden which is big frustration in the second half. The reason I am disappointed with second half  is that scriptwriter has wasted a fantastic opportunity to create excellent thriller on top of a solid foundation of the first half. The movie becomes so predictable in the second half and ends with one fight which seems like the audience has been treated as less intelligent overall. This could have been far better where protagonist and antagonists are playing moves against each other and build the final fight.

Both lead actors ( Amitabh and Farhan ) are strong and determined, and the only flaw in their performance is that they don’t have great script supporting them in the second half.  Amitabh entertains with few of his lines, and  Farhan delivers reliable performances are the positive -points of the movie. Director does well overall but doesn’t demonstrate any use of advanced technology. The sets of the film appropriate with the story but nothing extraordinary in that segment as well.

Vidu Vinod Chopra often makes excellent movies. However, this time, he takes a day off, and his subordinates let him down in parts. There’s also a fine line between entertainment and being a bit too on-the-nose  kind of movie. This film is a mixture of two. Watch it on your own risk.