Kaagaz (2021) Hindi Movie Review By Pankaj Tripathi

He does a decent job of capturing the sights, sounds, and locales of little city Uttar Pradesh.

The audio of Kaagaz is mild and breezy.  The tunes are of those observed today, forgotten tomorrow' variety—nothing to write home about the songs.  The editing is weak -- it might have been tighter to provide better quality merchandise.

Kaagaz (2021) Hindi Movie Review By Pankaj Tripathi

Satish Kaushik is very watchable as the attorney with doubtful morals.   Mita Vashishth's attempts to create the best of this poorly-fleshed-out role contributed to her.

Having said that, the humor in the film is considerable.  It's a welcome diversion to a narrative that might well have been decreased to some soppy, mopey tear-fest.  Luckily, Satish Kaushik has taken a leaf from other amazing films of a similar genre -- My God, for example -- to weave an engaging story.  Even the dialogues, in particular, are very amusing and make the viewer smile.

 Both are created to spout heavy dialogues and ultimately end up being laughably inconsequential into the narrative.  The attorney Sadhuram and journalist Sonia's contributions appear very insignificant in Bharat Lal's rather chequered fight against the system.

ZEE5's latest first film'Kaagaz' centers on a man announced dead on paper at the official earnings recordings of the UP Government, along with the trials and tribulations he faces to demonstrate himself alive.  The storyline is accommodated by the real-life story of a little farmer Lal Bihari Mritak who had confronted the specific same situations as revealed in the film.

True-to-life episodes perform on the screen one after another, with nary a wisp of emotion in some of those sequences.  It's a clinical retelling of all of the events in Lal Bihari's struggle against faulty government machines, hence making it all narrative and no spirit.  A simple Google search about the real-life personality on whom Kaagaz relies will inform you everything displayed in the biographical film is accurate.  

Bharat Lal (Pankaj Tripathi) is your small-time proprietor of a group in Amilo village in the Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh.  Spurred by his spouse Rukmani (Monal Gajjar) to enlarge his business enterprise, Bharat Lal applies for a bank loan to finance larger premises for his group.  The loan program needs him to provide the ancestral property particulars to keep as security with the lender.  That is when he sees his greedy uncle, cousins, and aunt have unwittingly obtained him declared dead in earnings records to usurp his ancestral property in district Khalilabad.

Kaagaz was composed and directed by Satish Kaushik, also made together by Salman Khan Films and The Satish Kaushik Entertainment.

Kaagaz has a rather intriguing premise in its core.  This film's story sticks quite near the real-life narrative of Lal Bihari Mritak, where it's based.  This shows to be its main fallacy too.  In recounting the true story of the farmer out of UP who fought for 19 years because of his best to be declared a citizen of their dwelling, Kaagaz is reduced only to a collection of sequences that seem to have been stitched together to make a mashup of Lal Bihari's life.


 However, the marvel of Kaagaz creates the narrative completely soulless and sketchily constructed.  Subplots are introduced to the story, only to peter out to nothing over the upcoming few minutes.  Bharat Lal's look on Time magazine's cover is revealed as though it's a regular occurrence in the life span of commoners.  There is no gravitas or importance denoted to it from the film, which we discovered quite bizarre, to tell the truth.

Thus begins Bharat Lal's lengthy 19-year struggle against the infamous Indian infantry program to show his place among the living.  A conflict that sees him a hotel to myriad unconventional methods to find the authorities to overturn the glaring falsity from him.  Bharat Lal receives the assistance of varied people on the way, such as a burnt-out attorney Sadhuram (Satish Kaushik), a recognized though helpless journalist Sonia (Neha Chauhan), as well as also the local politician, Ashrafi Devi (Mita Vashisht).

 He's the only reason that the humorous narrative succeeds in keeping the audience participated in the story.  He's truly the centerpiece of all Kaagaz.   The function has similarities with Kanji Bhai's spouse's personality, My God, also will remind discerning audiences of Lubna Salim's enactment of a spouse that has had enough of her husband's shenanigans and rail against the system.

The dialogues of all Kaagaz are extremely well-composed.  They're witty, funny, and quite different from the typical clunky dialogues that populate films of a similar genre.   

Kaagaz (2021) Hindi Movie By Pankaj Tripathi

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