Pathaan (2023)Directed by Siddharth AnandWatched "Pathaan" yesterday at Cinepolis DSL Mall Uppal and had an awesome time! As one can make out from the trailer, the movie pits agent Pathaan (Shah Rukh Khan) against rogue agent turned mercenary Jim (John Abraham), who has a plan to attack India. The multiple flashbacks tell you the characters backstories and just when you get the feeling that the script (Shridhar Raghavan) is getting too convoluted, things get tied back together.There's nothing here we haven't seen before, elements from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in more ways than one, a dash of Michael Bay, a bit of Mission: Impossible, James Bond, even a little bit of Lokesh Kanagaraj and Prashant Neel. But it's all mixed well with a fast pace, crowd pleasing elements, very slick production values, a nice music score, so that you'll ignore and forgive the occasional silliness. The movie delivered 100% of what it promised at least for me, especially in terms of action. The action scenes were great, though as I remember, "War" had more effective action (I think that movie was bloodier than this one hence better). But no matter, the screen presence of the two leads were great, the villain's motivation was clearly setup, Deepika was great and I had a grand time despite the flaws.There are some clever meta jokes and references too. I had a huge grin on my face at the end of it all. Bring on more entries in the now labelled YRF Spy Universe!I've added this to my Best of 2023 List, Tier 2. Also, this is the first movie this year for which I'm wearing my t-shirt with my Movies of 2023 artwork (this time though, all the movies I drew are releasing in the first half of the year only, there's nothing beyond July). I drew SRK as Pathaan from the movie, the drawing is done with 0.5 mm 4B mechanical pencil on A5 Brustro sketchbook. You can swipe to see a scan.#karthikabhiram #dailymoviesketch#pencil #pencilart #pencilsketch#hellohyderabad#pathaan #srk #shahrukhkhan#715 / 27-Jan-23
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