There is subtle exaggeration to stress on a certain point, and there is blatant exaggeration to the point of absurdity. This movie like all bollywood films does the latter. For some reason Bollywood has to demean all other community in order to advance their own depictions of valor and courage without exception. For example, all Britishers shown on film has to be inherently sadists, arrogant and abusive and derive personal pleasure from abusing Indians. Reality, not all Brits were cruel and some even thought highly of Indians and were friends. Many britishers were born in India and even remember their birthplace with pride.

In bollywood, the enemy is always backstabbing cowards and there are no exception. Whereas the Indians are always ready to sacrifice. In this movie probably the better course would have been to keep the Afghans as nameless and faceless tribals, more as a horde.

Too many unnecessary details added that do nothing to move the plot forward. Understanding this film was completed with budget constraints, I choose not to delve into goofs and factual, technical and historical flaws. But I must say, the makeup, most of all was the least convincing. Being a war, one would expect a lot more gore and blood than a PG rated movie.

Last;y I guess we would have to wait till Hollywood decides to pick up this story and makes a film on it.

Go & watch... & judge yourself...

A blockbuster writingover it. Akshay Kumar's best acting. Action sequencs are lit

KESARI REVIEW :-



There are countable Epic war films made in Bollywood that's why hardly one or two stayed in memory. Bahubali has to be that Historic Film to remember for years with Freaking Grand Canvas and Brilliant vision of Rajamouli. Sadly no other director in India has managed match that or even go close to that. Kesari was Promised to be that Mountain scale film with Terrific story to tell but unfortunately lacks that Vision. Excluding that, it is a Good Commercial Entertainer for regular Indian Audience.

Kesari tells the tale of Bravest battle ever fought by 21 Sikhs against 10, 000 afghans. We actually see those 10, 000 invaders on screen and that makes this film to look lavish in screen. But it was a Big responsibility to handle, where the Director couldn't stand tall. There are so many illogical moments and small small mistakes appearing continuously in the screenplay. The biggest question arises that if everyone was dead in the film then who the hell told this story to next generation? There has to be some logic behind this if you are making a historic film otherwise have to admit that your research is not that good. Acting department is fine and the cinematography is the best thing about the film. Music was unnecessarily added, when the film has taken the pace why do they need to spoil that with songs. Another problem is, the best song from the film 'Ajj Singh Garjega' which could have been one of the Best Cinematic portion in the Film doesn't even appear for a moment. The entire storytelling is fictionalised just to make the heroes shine brightly, no matter if it doesn't make any sense. The director wasn't capable to pull off this one.

Although Kesari is a good entertainer with enough commercial value and mass elements for Pan India audience, one might feel that this one was a potential gold converted into silver. In non commercial zone Akshay Kumar has delivered some Classic and Very Good films recently but the commercial zone is quite below the belt. He will taste the success again but that memorable stuff is missing this time. Why do we fail to match Hollywood? Because of that typical melodramatic and emotional propaganda by Indian directors. Kesari was a chance to make something close to "300" level but stays in limit for those typical audience of our nation so let them enjoy what they want.

RATING- 6/10*