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Haseena Parkar movie review
Haseena Parkar movie review
Film: “Haseena Parkar”
Director: Apoorva Lakhia;
Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Priyanka Setia, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang
Rating : 1.5 stars out of 5
Haseena Parkar crafts a morally dodgy portrait of the ‘godmother’ of Nagpada, Dawood Ibrahim’s tough-minded sibling who ran the dreaded mafia don’s crime syndicate by proxy in the 1990s and the noughties without ever being brought to book. The film falls off the deep end in the process.
Shraddha Kapoor, for whom this is meant to be a career-altering outing, bites off more than she can chew. When she delivers her vapid lines, it is hard to tell whether she is biting or chewing. Seeking to convey menace and power via a darkened skin tone, puffed-up cheeks, prosthetic enhancements around her jaw and a gravelly voice, she hisses and growls to no effect, making rather heavy weather of carrying the flimsy film on her shoulders.
Shraddha Kapoor certainly isn’t the only problem with Haseena Parkar. Underworld period dramas have anyways outlived their utility. In terms of both style and substance, they now reek of musty monotony. The drudgery is only aggravated when the director resorts to outmoded, by-the-numbers storytelling that has little to commend itself. In the end, the film achieves neither grit nor glory.
Directed by Apoorva Lakhia and scripted by Suresh Nair, Haseena Parkar is a dreary courtroom drama in which the protagonist is hauled before the law to defend herself against grave criminal charges. The story moves back and forth from the sessions court magistrate’s hearing to piece together the life of the only lady don the Mumbai underworld has ever seen. The film is hard-pressed to assert that she might have been as much a perpetrator – she thought nothing of bandying about her fearsome brother’s name to intimidate people – as a victim who paid the price for her family’s deserved infamy.The court scenes are purported to be the film’s centrepiece but so poorly are they written and executed that they cannot hold the drama together. The lawyers err on the side off hysteria and the magistrate who never yells “order, order” (small mercy) comes across as a taciturn man who prefers to sit back and watch the rigmarole wind its way to its foregone conclusion.
The film depicts Haseena’s personal relationships, too – with her brother Dawood (played by Shraddha’s real-life sibling Siddhanth Kapoor), her husband and small-time movie actor and Nagpada eatery owner Ibrahim Parkar (Ankur Bhatia) and her son Danish (Paras Priyadarshan) – as well as her dark dealings with the D-gang that gave her cover and eventually landed her in court in 2007, the only time in her life that she ever faced direct legal scrutiny despite the many cases registered against her. She is charged with extortion, links with real estate fraudsters and other criminal offences but evidence is hard to gather as nobody has the courage to bear witness against her.
Haseena Parkar drags because the making is pedestrian despite the superficial stylistic flourishes. And the ponderous performances weigh heavy on the film. Siddhanth Kapoor has neither the screen presence nor the dialogue delivery skills that can make him an effective onscreen Dawood. Ankur Bhatia adds no punch to the proceedings.
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