Chakravyuh (2012) –Movie Review
‘Chakravyuh’ shows two friends Adil Khan (played by Arjun Rampal) and
Kabir (Abhay Deol). Adil is an honest
police officer whereas Kabir is an argumentative failure of cop training.
After the incident of 84 policemen’s murder by Rajan (played by Manoj Bajpayee), Adil receives a transfer to Nandighat. He is powerless to break the nexus of Rajan and his companion Juhi (played by Anjali Patil). Adil Khan now makes his mind up to penetrate a secret agent. Here Kabir helps him get every movement of the Naxalites and nails them in the end. Situation changes when Kabir sees the dodge in the law system of his country. He is disappointed and starts having compassion with the Naxals.
With ‘Chakravyuh’, Prakash Jha holds a very strong script on Maoists violence that has been impacting the homeland. ‘Chakravyuh’ presents a political thriller with the same dilemma. The filmmaker has tried to portray that how goodness turns into badness and how one is enforced to choose between right and wrong. However, ‘Chakravyuh’ weakens in drawing viewers’ attention.
’Chakravyuh’ is a 2 hrs 32 minutes long in length. The first half is focused on establishing each character of the movie that equalizes testing audiences’ patience. Although the second half is interesting and possesses the real drama, but the already bored audience is no more up to pay attention on it. Whether it gets viewers attention or not but the fact cannot be declined that Jha has fascinatingly depicted the excitement in its second half.
Arjun Rampal is in the main lead of ‘Chakravyuh’ and has a great role. Moreover, his looks and hairdo are perfect for his character of an honest police officer. However, his performance is weak and he fails to grab the character. There are many moments where his expressions do not justify with what the scene demands. Abhay Deol is perfect in his role and knows his job. Esha Gupta has an ordinary role and seems to be added as a showpiece for some unnecessary kissing and exposing scenes. Manoj Bajpayee and Om Puri are great actors and with ‘Chakravyuh’, they have fully justified with their roles. Anjali Patil is also perfect in her role.
Prakash Jha has involved various music composers for ‘Chakravyuh’s music that does not suit the movie environment and its plot. Songs are not so much impressive and work as an additional part of the movie. Cinematography is great and country locations have been portrayed tremendously.
After the incident of 84 policemen’s murder by Rajan (played by Manoj Bajpayee), Adil receives a transfer to Nandighat. He is powerless to break the nexus of Rajan and his companion Juhi (played by Anjali Patil). Adil Khan now makes his mind up to penetrate a secret agent. Here Kabir helps him get every movement of the Naxalites and nails them in the end. Situation changes when Kabir sees the dodge in the law system of his country. He is disappointed and starts having compassion with the Naxals.
With ‘Chakravyuh’, Prakash Jha holds a very strong script on Maoists violence that has been impacting the homeland. ‘Chakravyuh’ presents a political thriller with the same dilemma. The filmmaker has tried to portray that how goodness turns into badness and how one is enforced to choose between right and wrong. However, ‘Chakravyuh’ weakens in drawing viewers’ attention.
’Chakravyuh’ is a 2 hrs 32 minutes long in length. The first half is focused on establishing each character of the movie that equalizes testing audiences’ patience. Although the second half is interesting and possesses the real drama, but the already bored audience is no more up to pay attention on it. Whether it gets viewers attention or not but the fact cannot be declined that Jha has fascinatingly depicted the excitement in its second half.
Arjun Rampal is in the main lead of ‘Chakravyuh’ and has a great role. Moreover, his looks and hairdo are perfect for his character of an honest police officer. However, his performance is weak and he fails to grab the character. There are many moments where his expressions do not justify with what the scene demands. Abhay Deol is perfect in his role and knows his job. Esha Gupta has an ordinary role and seems to be added as a showpiece for some unnecessary kissing and exposing scenes. Manoj Bajpayee and Om Puri are great actors and with ‘Chakravyuh’, they have fully justified with their roles. Anjali Patil is also perfect in her role.
Prakash Jha has involved various music composers for ‘Chakravyuh’s music that does not suit the movie environment and its plot. Songs are not so much impressive and work as an additional part of the movie. Cinematography is great and country locations have been portrayed tremendously.
Overall, ‘Chakravyuh’ could have worked better with some small
considerations. It is an average film which does not bring an expected break
through for Arjun Rampal or Abey Deol.
