The intention of this film was good, to show us the story of Faraaz, a boy who stood by his friends in tough times of a terrorist attack at Holey Artisan bakery (2016) and also challenges the terrorists of their interpretation of Islam.
But my first question arises is that we have many films in India based on the same topics so why do we need a story from Bangladesh made in india? I am not complaining that bravery stories should not be narrated . We must know their stories but my question is, have Indian films covered up the stories of all bravehearts in india ? Have we run out of Indian bravery stories that we now have to look for more in other countries? In that case, we might just see some bravery story being made in India based on some American guy or some Israeli guy etc etc. I really didn't get this entire thing.
Second question, the film is based in Bangladesh but everyone speaks in pure Hindi with not even one Bengali word or even a tinch of Bengali accent in their hindi language . I had to slap myself twice to remind myself that this film is not set in Delhi but in Dhaka. This is unbelievable. Hansal Mehta has absolutely not given any effort to reviewing the fact that some Bengali words or accent should be present in the dialogues. He assumed if we incorporate Bengali probably noones gonna understand the language when one section of Indian audience itself is Bengali.
Third question, why is this film at times unintentionally funny? Such a terrifying event taking place and we have terrorists and even the police outside exchanging dialogues that sound funny. The police outside itself is shown as a joke doing nothing and only getting killed by the terrorists.
Fourth question, the film is named Faraaz but our boy Faraaz is just a side character in this film. Isn't that weird? I mean Aditya Rawal, the lead terrorist gets the maximum screen space and Faraaz i believe gets a screen space of ...at the most 15 mins and the film is 1 hr 40 mins long. The director is clearly unsure who the lead of this film should be. If the film is to be based on Faraaz , then i would suggest anyone veiwing this film to just see the first 20 mins and the last 20 mins that's it. The remaining 1 hr is just terrorists roaming around doing nothing and the police running around... doing nothing .
Aditya Rawal definitely seems a good actor. The boy who plays Faraaz doesn't get to show much but still seemed good in those last 20 mins.
Overall, this is a film which should have existed in Bangladesh than in india but what can we do? Since it's made now in india, we can't reverse it. You may watch it on ott to witness Faraaz 's story but his story itself is so short that it hardly had any impact on me atleast and on top of that, the execution of this film is also extremely average topped with some jarring decisions like not to incorporate an iota of Bengali in the dialogues.... certainly not Hansal Mehta's top work.
