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Aug 12, 2011 · Review: Aarakshan. A deep-rooted Indian political issue is never quite as simple as a Bollywood film and Aarakshan fails to be an exception says Megha Shah. By GQ Staff. 12 August 2011. GQ Images...
May 3, 2016 · Prateik Babbar Actor. Aarakshan Movie Review. Times Of India. The Times of India, TNN, Updated: May 3, 2016, 03.01 PM IST Critic's Rating: 3.0/5. Story: Amitabh Bachchan, a principal of a premier college in Bhopal, is forced to resign from his post after he makes a controversial statement about India's reservation policy.
- Amitabh Bachchan
- Prakash Jha
Aarakshan (with a different name) could have been a touching tale of a principled crusader, Dr. Prabhakar Anand ( Amitabh Bachchan) who just refuses to be put down. His fight is not as much against the government's policy about reservation but against the businessmen who have made education a profitable transaction.
Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave it 2 out of 5 stars, calling it "a deathly boring slog" and adding: "With so much to say, the movie drags on endlessly, with over-written scenes, over-the-top emotions and dialogues that are so heavy, they end up being inaccessible. Of the performances, every actor seems to go through the motions and only Manoj ...
Aug 18, 2011 · Characters are reduced to giving long-winded speeches defending their positions, accompanied by dramatic music. (Wayne Sharpe’s background score is one of the film’s few highlights.) It’s an artless way of making a point, and it inflates the movie’s runtime to a boring 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Aug 12, 2011 · Aarakshan touches its core theme of reservation only in its first half and that too only partially and peripherally. The second half seems to narrate an altogether unconnected story.
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Aug 12, 2011 · Rajeev Masand says Prakash Jha's controversial film 'Aarakshan' is idealistic melodrama.
