Ayan Mukerji’s ‘Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva’, with Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, has more spectacle than soul
- Trinity Auditorium
- Sep 7, 2022
- 1 min read
Spoilers ahead…
All fantasy movies are derivative, and Ayan Mukerji’s is no different. From the universe, we get a Luke Skywalker-Darth Vader angle. From the universe, we get the “love is the greatest superpower” angle. From the universe, we get a school (or an ashram, here), where a mentor presides over a group of people with superpowers. And so on and so forth. The trick is not to make us forget these references. The trick is to make us say: “Oh wow, look how they took all these bits and pieces from all these other fantasy universes and did their own thing.” In other words, it’s not what you are taking from elsewhere. It’s what you are adding to what you are taking from elsewhere. It’s how you are building your own world, your own universe.
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