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‘There is market for every film nowadays’

MUMBAI: Actor Tiger Shroff, who is gearing up for the release of War, is not worried that his upcoming action drama clashes with Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy at boxoffice on October 2. He said that nowadays there is a market for every kind of film, adding that he is a big fan of Amitabh Bachchan and Chiranjeevi who spearhead the cast of that multilingual film.

“I am big fan of both of them (Amitabh Bachchan and Choranjeevi). Nowadays, I feel that there is a market for every film so, I think every films should do good business, and I wish them all the best,” said Tiger, while interacting with the media at India’s biggest tricking championship organised by Fly Zone Fitness on Sunday in Mumbai.

“War” is Yash Raj Films’ new biggie starring hrithik Rishan along with Tiger and Vaani Kapoor. “I am excited and nervous before the release of the film. Actually yesterday, I watched the film for the first time. It was a family screening so, my family, Hrithik (Roshan) sir’s family, (producer) Aditya (Chopra) sir’s family and (director) Siddharth (Anand) sir’s family watched the film together. I really had fun watching the film and I think it will be a treat for audience on October,” said Tiger. —IANS

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‘Bard Of Blood’ review: Bard to worse

Terrorism is a terrible tragedy.

Reducing terrorism to a formula-for-thrills situation is a worst tragedy. Lately we have seen many laments on global terrorism in the movies and on the OTT platform. Some like the recent The Family Man blended the personal and global crises in a palatable fusion.

Bard Of Blood is, how do I put this politely, a mess. A self-important posturing piece on holier-thanthou patriotism filled with anxious

jingoism that reminded me of the bogus self-righteousness of the Sean Penn fiasco epic film “The Last Face” where goodlooking actors ran around in starched fatigues trying to save Africa.

Bard Of Blood is even more ambitious than Penn’s film. It wants to save the world when it can’t save even its own edified ambitions from sinking into a sanctimonious abyss. The actors are partly to blame.

While Hashmi tries to remain calm and grapples manfully with militancy and Shakespeare, his other two comrades in arms, played by Vineet Kumar Singh and Shobhita Dhulipala) run around with guns far more sophisticated than the series.

The problem here is one of narrative cramps. The writing suffers from a sense of self-importance that the direction fails to justify. Not one incident in the plot is unpredictable.

The script scoops up the Hashmi- Dhulipala-Vineet Kumar trio and sets up a road to perdition that involves Pakistani terrorists with peculiar accents that need more urgent decoding than those cryptic messages from across the border that are supposed make or break Indian intelligence. — Subhash K. Jha