I took in Swargarath at 5 pm, the full house show at PVR City Centre. When I checked BookmyShow to decide where I wanted to see the film, I was glad to see that the movie was listed as fast-selling for almost all shows, and by late evening, it was nearly sold out. Many of its shows on Saturday and Sunday are still listed as fast-filling today as I write this review.
Judging by the audience I watched the film with and gauging their expectations, it wasn’t hard to tell that everyone had come for a brainless entertainer which would have enough laughs and twists to justify its runtime. These people heard about the movie through the aggressive marketing campaign characterized by widespread postering and a trailer that was smartly edited, adequately elevated and told us precious little about the plot but showcased some of its best gags. It had already done what it needed to do – catch people’s attention – especially since our box office has been going through an unlikely drought during this summer blockbuster season like none seen in recent memory.
The film is about three friends played by Kamal Lochan, Bonny Deori, and Udvawan Saikia who need money for their respective dreams. They run out of ways to make an honest living and decide to fake Udvawan Saikia’s kidnapping demanding a huge ransom from his millionaire businessman father.
Siddhartha Sharma (Swargarath) drives a mortuary van and dreams of educating his daughter in one of the best colleges. He unknowingly gets involved with Kamal, Bonny, and Udvawan when he gives them a lift in his van while they are on-the-run from law enforcement.
Kenny Basumatary & Rintu Bora are two corrupt cops always looking for opportunities to make quick bucks. Rintu hears about trio’s plan to fake a kidnapping & earn easy money and brings in Kenny to help him follow the trio as they try to execute their plan. The rest of the movie is about how actions & plans of different players affect each other and lead to one explosive climax.
Swargarath is 94 minutes long but it felt like 2 hours. The film has comedy, some of the writing is genuinely funny, but those moments are so few and far between that you can’t help but get impatient while waiting for something strangely funny or entertaining to happen. Kamal, Bonny, and Udvawan’s chemistry & camaraderie was the only thing working consistently throughout the film. Whenever they are on screen, either things become funny or engaging or both. Their portions are also what I could relate to the most. The language used between three, their problems and creative solutions they come up with for these problems as well as constant fights they have among themselves were enough to make sure parts involving them were most entertaining in entire film.
The three actors’ ability to capture the way friends interact with each other in today’s times made it slightly more interesting. Bonny, Kamal and Udvawan have a fantastic sense of comic timing which works for the film. They do this by making their parts enjoyable through their respective characterisations even though the writing lets them down by not giving enough jokes to keep us laughing throughout our time watching this movie.
Siddhartha Sharma is such a lovable actor but his character here is so flat and boring that no matter how hard he tries, it just doesn’t come alive. The parts with him are more about dramatic payoffs than comedy and that only makes things worse because they become really dull too. My patience was tested during these scenes where we spend so long learning about this guy’s life like why did you build up all those details about how badly he needs money for setting up his daughter’s career? And then nothing happens! I mean sure if you’re going for drama fine but not when your script lacks any entertainment value whatsoever. So yeah while Siddhartha Sharma does try to save us from complete boredom with some little one-liners here and there, “in the end, it doesn’t even matter”.
Kenny and Rintu’s storyline has at least two decent twists towards the end but even this part suffers from too much dialogue between them that isn’t funny or engaging in any way shape or form. What really baffled me is why didn’t they utilise a great comedian like Kenny to fullest extent possible? Why couldn’t they write something where he could just go wild on screen with his histrionics and have people rolling around laughing uncontrollably? That would’ve also distracted everyone from realising how little effort went into telling an original story here.
One of my friends, who is a film critic, said that the production quality of the movie was poor and it could be any episode of Axomia daily TV series (not one of the good ones). Unfortunately, I have to agree with him. The worst thing about this film for me is that it is hardly even an Axomia movie. It’s just another bad movie with low production values and no reason to exist. What made this situation worse was how excited I was about seeing it. In recent years there has been a surge in popularity for movies produced by Axomians starting from 2020; they were releasing them left right centre across all genres and some really good ones too! This movie kept changing its tone which made everything seem unevenly placed as well as not giving me chance to connect myself emotionally towards any character in particular since every second emotion displayed through them seemed forced due to Swargarath being such predictable storyline where we’ve seen everything before several times already except done better each previous occasion than what we get here now – so generic should never have gone beyond writing stage let alone become realised on screen because if anything at all originality went into making this then surely none whatsoever must’ve come out again?
And did anyone involved actually think about what they were doing when making these scenes – or even realize that there are other emotions besides anger sadness joy etc.? Because none of them ever felt real or believable especially given how poorly written acted directed was? Even though I think Swargarath might do well financially speaking but cinematically speaking always leave something lacking
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