Aamir movie rating and review

Aamir (2008) Movie Rating and Review :

Rating :

Acting – 7/10
Direction – 7/10
Screenplay – 6/10
Music – 7/10
Technique – 7/10

Review :

A for Aamir

Aamir leaves you with a feeling of disappointment. Aamir leaves you with a sense of despair. And for a change, that is exactly what debutant director Raj Kumar Gupta has worked towards achieving.

Why? Because Aamir is not a story of a typical Bollywood hero who always manages, at the end of the day, to set everything right with a wave of a hand.

Aamir tells the story of an ordinary man — a Muslim, a doctor, who leaves foreign shores to return to his country and his family after three years. But from the moment he touches down in Mumbai, bizarre things begin to happen to him. Even before he’s stepped out of the airport, he finds himself completely under the control of a complete stranger.

This film may have no heroine, no songs, no fun, but it still is gripping till the very end. The story unveils slowly to Aamir — as it does to the audience, keeping the surprise element intact.

Rajeev Khandelwal is wonderful as Aamir, in his big-screen debut. The protagonist is led through the dark bylanes of Mumbai, revealing to him a different life. He learns that his family has been kidnapped and he is supposed to commit the most heinous crime to ensure their safety. All in the name of religion.

A film with such a dark subject and zero “entertainment” (as Bollywood generally defines it) is a difficult film to make. But first time director Gupta gets all of it right. The acting, both by Rajeev the victim and Gajraj Rao the oppressor; the camera work by Alphonse Roy; topnotch background score by Amit Trivedi that adds to the feeling of oppression that looms large; and razor-sharp editing, all come together for a mature cinematic experience.

Whether it is viable at the box office or not, Aamir is a film that earns its place in the halls on merit, not by virtue of big names, big bucks or big banner.

Yes, Aamir deserves an ‘A’

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