Nawazuddin Siddique and Bhumi Pednekar's latest political thriller "Afwaah" directed by Sudhir Mishra has released this week on big screens. The film revolves around the consequences and chaos which are given birth to after a rumour hits the wall of streets, near to elections. The movie keeps your minds engaged in it throughout, while also throwing light on reality, and how a rumour could turn be hazardous in many aspects.

One thing I realised upon the screening is that, it is clearly a content driven film and not a one for the masses. The consequences and scenarios enacted in the feature is delivered to the audience with right intentions.

Credits for the show, must be given to its brilliant storyline and performances. The main five leads were brilliant in their portrayals, but special appreciation to sumeet vyas for his character of a politician.

Being an original, Afwaah also marks up high points for its rooted yet bold story. Apart from the positives, major flaw of the film lies with the lethargic screenplay, the film is brilliant in its first half an hour and then goes on lack lustre hiatus until last 30 minutes of a brilliant climax and pre-climax.

Afwaah is a film which should be in the watchlist for the week, for the solid content it delivers.

Afwaah (2023) .

Cast: Nawazuddin Siddique, Bhumi Pednekar, Sumeet Vyas, Sharib Hashmi Directed by: Sudhir Mishra .

In cinemas now.

The usual narrative-peddling and witch-hunt in the name of a movie. Utterly obnoxious plot and hilariously skewed storyline. The story has a nonsensical plot. Very predictable and devoid of originality. They tried to get some views by advertising their stellar cast but the attempt totally falls on its face. Nothing except the overt propaganda message sticks out. It shows us how ideologically bankrupt the left-leaning lobbies have become. There was not a single scene in the film that could redeem it. No lesson to be learnt except that we should keep our eyes open for attempts like these that are nothing but decoys to push us off the right soul-searching track. Pathetic.

It's extremely rare that a film with some great performers not only falls flat on its face but possibly also produces pedestrian performances by Nawaz and Bhumi and left me wondering why the hell they agreed to do the film. After suffering the painful 2 hour 2 minute ordeal I understood why Tapsee possibly decided to give the film a miss. A wafer thin concept of effects of a viral rumour on Social Media one wondered weather the film maker was high on drugs when he wrote the screenplay ? Jerky delivery and an attempt to vomit own filthy mindset on presumably dirty politics by a section of the political scene in the country goes woefully wrong. The supposed attempt to call out on the Right and Right of Centre political scene including dynastic political system attempts to glorify left lean and not to forget appease a particular ( most appeased) religion. It's funny that the movie arrives on screen just when a more serious and relatively much more authentic portrayal of 'Love Jihad' is making news. No wonder this one sank without a whimper. All in all I regretted wasting my time and money and thankfully didn't waste cash on popcorn. This one's not even worth a watch on a FREE OTT platform. Time for Anubhav Sinha to smell the coffee that films portraying such a political shade have a lifespan and with 'Mulk' and 'Article 15' you have already expended patience. It's some dimwits like me among 20 odd others who were suffering the ordeal on a Sunday evening regretting having paid hard earned money for this. My main reason was to see Nawaz and Bhoomi together. And not to forget the generous sprinkling of Cuss words and a crude unnecessary sex scene possibly to make a statement that we are now getting used to all filmmakers getting into possibly to meet the expectations of OTT platforms like Netflix for all international audiences but end up making the actors uncomfortable speaking out the cuss words. Both Nawaz and Bhoomi's efforts to use the 'F' word appear deliberate and forced and indicates their discomfort using them. Time for ppl like Sudhir Mishra to be shown the door and possibly this venture could be his swan song. Cringy, Crude, Claustrophobic, experience which is better missed. I regret that rather than wasting money on this film I should have donated the amount in charity elsewhere. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ON THIS ONE.