Kedarnath movie netflix movie#
Love might be a pilgrimage (per the title) but this movie was a slog! The rest of it is average bordering on deathly boredom. What I did like about the film were the songs, especially Qaafirana. Another actor to note is Sonali Sachdev who is pretty impressive in limited screen time as Mukku’s harried mom. Nishant Dahiya (of the cute teenie-bopper romance Mujhse Fraandship Karoge) has aged into an almost-gauntness, and plays Mukku’s shrewd, family-ordained suitor. He is still very good as unassuming Mansoor, and I really felt for his character. Sushant Singh Rajput, a good actor, is wasted in his poorly sketched out character. Perky Sara Ali Khan does bring some pep to Kedarnath, but she really doesn’t fit the small-town girl profile. There could have been some exploration of the relationship between the sisters, but that is given short shrift. I would have liked to see more of Brinda, Mukku’s sister’s (played by talented Pooja Gor) story – there is a segway into that, but the film doesn’t go into much detail. Even the dialogs are so 80s, so ghisa-pita! There was a story hidden behind Mukku’s seemingly outrageous behavior but the film doesn’t dwell on it too much. It offers no freshness, no new angle to a clichéd storyline. Just when the young lovers are being separated comes the flood. Since daddy’s a priest and the upholder of “dharm” there is a bunch of hai-tauba at Mukku’s romantic entanglements with a non-Hindu guy. She takes a shine to him, and he, after much ignoring and rebuffing her flirtatious advances, accedes. He’s the staid Mansoor Khan, a “pithoo” or porter helping ferry pilgrims up the steep hillsides of Kedarnath. The specifics: she’s frisky Mandakini aka Mukku. I mean, it is not like everyone should not have the freedom to make all the old-fashioned cinema they want to, but really? Another jaded inter-faith love story about a Hindu girl falling for the local Muslim porter? Kill me now. Not surreal like Zero, but like a throwback to the 1980s.
Cast : Sushant Singh Rajput, Sara Ali Khan, Nishant Dahiya, Pooja Gor, Nitish Bharadwaj, Alka Amin, Sonali Sachdeva
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