There is absolutely no substance in the script. The director thinks he is being clever and entertaining viewers, but in reality, it's an illusion. The man stands out for his skills, but his chemistry with Shraddha falls flat on its face. Ankur Bhatia, who plays Haseena's husband Ibrahim Parkar has done a brilliant job in the film. The director tries to add a romantic element to the film, but it's pointless. However, Priyanka Setia, who plays the female prosecutor, is amazing and does actually entertain you. The judge presiding over the case comes across as a doofus. “Kanoon saboot mangta hai”, and well, the ‘saboot' is missing throughout the proceedings. But sadly, the whole court proceeding is more like a clown show, which makes you laugh even at serious moments. The courtroom drama is used more as a backdrop to give us an insight into Haseena's life. Period! An Insulting Spectacle Of A Courtroom Drama The character is so misrepresented that Siddhanth Kapoor looks incredibly foolish, and essentially made a fool of himself onscreen. Never in the history of Bollywood has Dawood been so badly portrayed. Dawood Is Nothing More Than A Laughing Stock In The Film It's time the director takes some filmmaking lessons before he ends up making another fatuous film. This saga is so futile and ridiculous that nothing makes sense. What happens when a dead director comes back to life? Well, you get a cringe-worthy film like ‘Haseena Parkar'. Apoorva Lakhi Has Hardly Done Any Homework
But all we get is a tanned actress with terrible prosthetic work. If this was her performance after being inspired, we wonder what it would have been if she wasn't inspired at all! We aren't blaming her she truly does try her best. In one of her interviews, she said that she was inspired by Marlon Brando in ‘The Godfather'. As the narration proceeds, she becomes less and less convincing. Everything looks fine until she opens her mouth to deliver her lines. Shraddha Kapoor: The Biggest Misfit In The Filmįrom the first shot to the last frame, Shraddha is absolutely stone-faced. Today, we give you 7 reasons why ‘Haseena Parkar' is a film that should have been left on the cutting room floor. The film keeps switching to flashbacks to establish Haseena's character and how she was accused of heading her brother's underworld business in Mumbai.
Plot: This film is a courtroom drama that gives viewers a glimpse of Haseena Parkar, the sister of India's most wanted don, Dawood Ibrahim.
Look, we totally understand that there is a need for a projection of the deep dark world of criminals, but one doesn't need a mouthpiece promoting the propaganda of a lady don, who on one hand plays a victim and on the other, tries to be a Godmother to many.Īpoorva Lakhi's ‘Haseena Parkar' is so atrocious that we fail to understand why this film was even made! But Lakhia’s film remains ambiguous about Haseena’s businesses and instead portrays her as the victim of police excesses and her brother’s crimes.Why is B-town so obsessed with glamorising gangsters? Why do we need a biopic about people who are nothing but criminals and gangsters? Is the world not filled with a ton of people who can actually inspire us to do some good? Does Bollywood think that millenials need such stories to lift their spirits up? In real life, Parkar was an authority in her own right - a powerful woman who is said to have controlled and expanded her brother’s business in India. Every bad deed is cloaked as a good one, doing both the film and its subject a huge disservice.
She bullies builders and landowners, but only because they harass the poor. Parkar intervenes in disputes only because she wants to be a good Samaritan. Bollywood has made many gangster films, many of them based on Dawood Ibrahim’s life, but all of them have shied away from depicting the gangster as a person with varying shades of grey. Lakhia is more concerned with sanitising events so as to make his heroine as blameless as possible.
Why else would you see Haseena as a young bride in 1976, watching a movie and sipping on a brand of bottled water that definitely did not exist during the period? There is a time and place for brand promotions, but this is not it.Īuthenticity is not the only thing that suffers in the film. Apoorva Lakhia’s “Haseena Parkar” is a film that is more concerned with making money than it is about telling the true story of that rare woman who made it to the top in the underworld.