And this first scene is superbly shot, in a style that has become trademark of Sriram Raghavan – the camera remains still and nothing quite happens for a long time and the moment one starts feeling bored of the scene, a dhamaka erupts on screen! He did this in Johnny Gaddaar and also Agent Vinod and repeats this feat in Badlapur. Only then will the viewers feel convinced when Raghu turns into a ruthless revenge seeker. One needs to see and understand the seriousness of Liak’s crime. And it’s very apt and a sincere request to all moviegoers – don’t even think of getting late for your Badlapur show! This is because the first scene is very crucial to the film. The tagline of Badlapur is ‘Don’t Miss The Beginning’. In fact, he might have to wait many years to achieve his goal. However, it will not be that easy for Raghu. Raghu gets devastated and decides to seek revenge. Both are on the run after committing a crime and while trying to escape, they end up badly hurting the mother and the daughter. One day, Misha and Robin bump into Liak (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) and his accomplice. The story of the movie: Raghav aka Raghu (Varun Dhawan) is living a carefree life in Pune with his wife Misha (Yami Gautam) and son Robin.
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And this surely will be a new experience for the viewers when they go to watch this exceptionally brilliant revenge drama! The victim here is as villainous as the assailant. And in most in cases, especially in Bollywood, the hero teaches a lesson to the villain in the right, moralistic manner way. The hero is out there to finish off the villain because he is evil and has inflicted harm on him or his loved ones.
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The climax, which should have been a cracker of an ending, partly because of its metaphorical allusion to the opening sequence, thus instead fizzles out.In most action thrillers and dramas, revenge is the core emotion that helps make the protagonist’s battle seem justified. If the makers were hoping that brutal scenes of violence, both physical and sexual (were they just for shock value, or to emphasis the fact that Raghu, dead inside from the traumatic incident, has hardened so much so that he is willing to sell his soul to the Devil?), would distract audiences from noticing the lapses in logic, alas, they don't succeed.
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What doesn't work is its overt misogyny (seriously what's with the treatment of women characters in the film?), its glaring plot contrivances and an overly long narrative that overstays its welcome.
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Director Sriram Raghavan (of Ek Hasina Thi, Johnny Gaddaar and Agent Vinod fame) imbues the film with a verité feel, conveying a dark, brooding noir'ish tale of revenge against a shape-shifting backdrop of what's right and what's wrong (something akin to Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners), and it all works to some extent, thanks to a gritty background score by Sachin-Jigar and an excellent atmospheric cinematography by Anil Mehta. The anti-hero becomes the hero capable of earning our sympathies. The hero, an ordinary man, becomes the anti-hero capable of inflicting untold cruelty. Raghu and Liak, who play the opposites in the moral spectrum of good versus evil, reel from the trauma in their own way, and in the course of time, shift allegiances.
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But is seeking vengeance, being a vigilante justice-seeker, the right panacea to cure your personal loss? Or is it about having a heart big enough to forgive, no matter how painful it is? Stories about badla and the futility of revenge are by now a cliché, and Badlapur unfortunately squanders the potential of its brilliant premise to offer an inconsistent psychological portrait of a grief-stricken protagonist who sets out to avenge the perpetrators of a heinous tragedy that kills his wife and their son. Even more so if it's in a senseless act of violence. Losing a loved one in your life can be upsetting and difficult to cope up with.