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Posted: 8 years ago
If 50 percent population of a country of 1 billion is going to khaits and do not have toilet facilities then I seriously believe that the movie did good to create awareness...there is nothing wrong in message of the movie.

I wont be seeing it in cinema (will download it lol) because it seems it is some social message and concerns Indians. Also I read that second half is long boring and bad. Whats up with second half of movies these days.

Overall good movies for Indians I guess.

On to the next one..badshaoo...will wait for its reviews. pakao lag rahi hai woh bhi.

oh barely ki barfi and gentleman in between..but the cast there is not big enough to even consider...lol

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I consider their movies and ofcourse where ad looks good and funny like Mubarkan.
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Posted: 8 years ago
The response is good, I really hope this one becomes a hit .. Bollywood needs one badly and I love bhumi ..


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Posted: 8 years ago
Toilet Ek Prem Katha Movie Review

2 hours ago53 Commentsby Indicine Team5 min read


Akshay Kumar has been hitting it out of the park recently by choosing to do innovative movies with a patriotic or a social angle (Baby, Airlift, Rustom, Jolly LLB2). And this strategy has started paying back very well for him. Now he's back with another rooted patriotic (?) film in the form of Toilet Ek Prem Katha. The trailers have promised us a rooted film based in the Hindi heartland of India which highlights and brings to the fore an important social evil about the country. But that would mean nothing if the film isn't entertaining. Is it?

Story: Keshav (Akshay) is a manglik and has to marry a cow to get rid of his manglikness. He's 36 and still unmarried but eventually he sees a girl Jaya (Bhumi), who is a college topper and is almost a dozen or so years younger than him. He goes after her and clicks her photo and even uses her pics while advertising his cycle shop. Jaya flips out on him but as it always happens in Hindi films, she cools down and falls in love with him. They finally get married.. and that's when shit hits the fan. Jaya discovers that there's no toilet in Keshav's house and all the women have to go to the fields to finish their early morning work. She decides to try it out but discovers perverts who follow the women during their activities. She gives Keshav an ultimatum to build a toilet in the house but Keshav's father doesn't want that because he thinks of a toilet in the house as an evil thing. Jaya leaves. Keshav has to then fight not only his father but also the government machinery and bureaucracy to get what his wife needs.

Toilet Ek Prem Katha Review
Toilet Ek Prem Katha Review
Review: Toilet Ek Prem Katha has all the makings for an uplifting important social message but the message gets bundled first by the love story which takes too long to come to fruition, and then by the overstretched fight of Keshav against the whole system. And what's even more bothersome is that the film tries its level best not to anger the ruling government (a case of corruption shown in the film conveniently happened 5 years ago). But having said that, not all is lost with this film. It has its heart set in the right place. The love story is very rooted to desi values and the courtship period can be termed as cute (urban folk might call it stalking). Shree Narayan Singh, the director, tries his best to imbibe masala elements to this PSA of a film but misses out on subtlety which holds the film back. Thankfully enough though, Toilet Ek Prem Katha doesn't bore too much even with its almost 3 hours long running time. And the story of a man fighting the system can be inspiring to a lot of people.

Toilet Ek Prem Katha has been shot in the Mathura region of the country. The camerawork isn't great but it sticks to the directors plan and keeps things simple. The production design is shabby and costume design is authentic. The editing of Toilet Ek Prem Katha is a bit lazy because there's no reason the film needed to be this long (2:45 minutes). The music is average with none of the songs making a huge mark. Hans Mat Pagli, Lath Maar and Bakheda all work well within the context of the movie.

Acting: Akshay Kumar looks a bit jaded but his look is spot on. And he is in fine form as Keshav, the naive but middle aged newly married husband who wants his wife back. He makes all the right noises with his dialogue delivery and mannerisms. It is great to see an Indian superstar regularly talk about social upliftment in his films. Bhumi Pednekar returns in her second film after Dum Laga Ke Haisha, and she has the potential to become the lead actress in movies which are set in the Hindi heartland of the country. She plays her part well, and with confidence but gets overshadowed by the stardom and presence of Akshay Kumar. Divyendu Sharma is there as a comic sidekick and does his job well. Sudhir Pandey, the veteran actor, is an effort of fine casting and is perfect in his role. Anupam Kher's presence in the film officially makes it a ruling government manifesto.

Conclusion: Toilet Ek Prem Katha can be grating; it is overstretched, has a needlessly long love story but eventually it has its heart set in the right place. It highlights one of the most important problems prevalent in our country today open defecation. And even if it convinces one family to build a toilet it would have done its job. What also helps the film is that it doesn't bore much even with such a long running time. Films with a socially important message need entertainment to make it work and Toilet ends up being a film that is not short on the entertainment factor. Cityfolk might have trouble connecting with the film's plot but rural folk are sure to like the film's rootedness.

Pros:

Akshay is in fine form in this socially relevant film
Highlights an important evil of India
There are not many boring patches in the film
Bhumi Pednekar is confident
Casting is appropriate
Cons:

Didn't have any business being almost 3 hours long
Love story part is too stretched
Can come across as a propaganda film
Technically not a lot of attention has been paid to the aesthetics of the film
Rating: 3 stars
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Posted: 8 years ago
Finished watching it. It was 75% full. Good crowd for an afternoon show.
Coming to the movie not many know about the open defecation problem that exists. It had to be addressed and that is done through this movie in an entertaining way. It does get preachy at times but not to a extent that you get bored.

Akshay is good. Bhumi has impressed me with her performance. She needs to do more movies to get the required lime light. Anupam Kher becomes more and more a favorite every time I watch him on screen. What an actor.

Pretty decent direction for a first timer (I am assuming he is a first time director since I never heard his name earlier as director of any movie), quiet good sound track & screenplay.

Movie has it heart in the right place, could have been certainly better but no complaints with this one either.

Entertaining plus social message = worth watching.

Pros:
Social message
Entertaining
Very impressive cast

Cons:
Preachy at times

It has some BJP praising dialogues too. That is up to you to decide if it is a pro or a con.😉
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Posted: 8 years ago

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#ToiletEkPremKatha is a very long n slow film at a wrong time at wrong place. A documentary can never become a commercial successful film.

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Posted: 8 years ago

Originally posted by: Udan-Khatola

There are films that good great message with light entertainment or gripping drama.

Then there are films which are preachy and Toilet seems likes to fit the bill here

so , it is boring??
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Posted: 8 years ago

Originally posted by: RRitumaa

Baahubali ka prabhav saaf dikh raha hain, ab koi bahut badi aur shandaar film hi logo ko phir se cinemaghar ki ore aakarshit kar paayegi.

Meri shubhkamnayein iss chalchitra ke saath bhi hain, aasha hain yeh achi ho aur Bollywood mein aaye hue sookhe ka ant karein.

Jai Ho 👏
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Posted: 8 years ago
komal nahta review..ignore if posted earlier

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#ToiletEkPremKatha is quite entertaining, thanks to the comic 1st half. But 2nd half not as good. Read my review at


TOILET EK PREM KATHA

Viacom18 Motion Pictures, KriArj Entertainment, Plan C Studios and Cape Of Good Films LLP's Toilet Ek Prem Katha (UA) is an unusual love story with a strong social message against open defecation and about the need to have in-house toilets or at least public toilets.

Keshav (Akshay Kumar) is in his thirties and lives in a small town, Mandgaon, in U.P. with his father and younger brother, Naru (Divyendu). Keshav is still unmarried because his father (Sudhir Pandey), a pandit, believes that a girl with two thumbs on her left hand would be the ideal match for him. He also gets Keshav married to a cow before a suitable girl can be found for him, in keeping with his superstitious beliefs. The moderately educated Keshav falls in love with Jaya (Bhumi Pednekar) and although she is a school topper, he woos her and ultimately gets married to her, hoodwinking his father into believing that her left hand has two thumbs.

All hell breaks loose when Jaya realises the morning after her wedding night that her matrimonial home does not have a toilet and that like the other ladies of the area, she too would have to defecate in the open before the break of dawn to escape being leered at. Since she comes from a family which has a toilet in the house, she is not at all comfortable relieving herself in the open. Keshav tries all the tricks in the book to convince her that he would find a solution to the problem but Jaya revolts and ultimately one day, she leaves Keshav and returns to her parental home. Since her father (Atul Srivastava) and uncle (Anupam Kher) are progressive in their outlooks, they support her stand. Her mother (Ayesha Raza Mishra) does ask her to compromise and return to her husband but Jaya is unrelenting.

Keshav tries to convince his father about allowing him to build a toilet in the house but the orthodox pandit will hear nothing about it. After being reported in the media, the issue of Keshav and Jaya's separation reaches the panchayat before whom Keshav presents a case for having a community toilet in the town, but even that plea is turned down by the panchayat. It is then that Keshav announces that he would see to it that Mandgaon gets a toilet.

Exasperated, Keshav gets a toilet constructed in his house but his shocked father has it broken down. Keshav is now at his wits' end as he sees no hope of Jaya returning to him. For, Jaya, with whom he has all along been in touch, has told him in no uncertain terms that no stop-gap arrangements would work for her and that she would return if and only if there was a toilet in the house. Soon, Jaya files for divorce. The media blows up the first divorce case of Mandgaon so much that it unearths the toilet scam involving crores of rupees which had been earmarked by the government for toilets and which had been usurped by the powers-that-be. Slowly but surely, the media coverage influences the thinking of the women in Mandgaon, who revolt against their husbands and demand toilets in their homes.

What happens thereafter? Does Keshav's orthodox father let Keshav save his marriage by allowing a toilet to be constructed in-house? Does Jaya relent and return to her matrimonial home? Does Keshav succeed in convincing Jaya to withdraw her divorce plea? Does the government act?

Siddharth-Garima have written an unusual story in which a toilet becomes the bone of contention in the married life of a new couple. The story couldn't be better timed as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan programme and anti-open-defecation campaign have got wide media coverage. Thanks to that, the audience is able to identify with the drama and the characters and empathise with Keshav and Jaya.

The duo's screenplay is interesting and engaging as also novel. The first half is entertaining because of the humour. Whether it is the first meeting of Keshav and Jaya, or the former wooing the latter, or the interactions between Keshav and brother Naru, or between Keshav and his father, the screenplay unfolds in a way that it keeps the viewers involved. The second half has a lot of drama but it does get too long and boring at places, mainly because the arguments put forth by Keshav in support of building a toilet are similar almost everytime he puts his case forward, whether before his father or the panchayat or the bureaucrat or the ladies of the town, etc. The humour quotient reduces post-interval but, thankfully, it doesn't disappear. Perhaps, the weakest link in the screenplay is that Jaya and Keshav hatch a plan by assuming that matters would move in a certain direction and all this without having any control on how the government and the womenfolk in Mandgaon would react. In other words, the plan looks like a convenient twist in the tale, once the drama thereafter unfolds. Nevertheless, since the plan itself is one which puts society before self which is what Keshav has advocated earlier the audience is prepared to overlook the aberration.

Another drawback is that the audiences do not feel emotionally moved when Keshav makes all attempts to ensure that Jaya comes back to him. The exhilaration they should experience when Keshav puts society before self is also short-lived because the wow factor is missing in what happens when society and the government get involved. While the interval point is excellent, the post-interval part does not live up to it. The climax also lacks the thrill and excitement.

Siddharth-Garima's dialogues are excellent but at places only. A film of this kind ought to have had clapworthy dialogues, full of punch-lines, in good measure.

Akshay Kumar does very well in the light scenes and raises several laughs. He is good in other scenes. The scene in which he breaks down when his father breaks the toilet does not quite appeal to the viewers. Bhumi Pednekar acts with confidence and impresses with a fine performance. Divyendu is excellent in the role of Naru. His comedy is very entertaining. Sudhir Pandey shines in the role of Keshav's father. Atul Srivastava (as Jaya's father), Ayesha Raza Mishra (as Jaya's mother) and Anupam Kher (as Jaya's uncle) lend very able support. Rajesh Sharma makes his presence well felt as Mathur. Shubha Khote (as Keshav's grandmother), Mukesh Bhatt (as Rastogi), Kimti Anand (as Pradhan), Rati Shankar Tripathi (as sarpanch), Gunjan Malhotra (as Anu), Sachin Khedekar (in a special appearance as a film director) and Sana Khan (in a special appearance) are adequate.

Shree Narayan Singh's direction is fairly good for a debut attempt. But he should've ensured more exciting moments in the second half which should've been crisper. Music (Vickey Prasad, Manas-Shikhar and Sachet-Parampara) is ordinary. The absence of hit songs is sorely felt. Lyrics (Siddharth-Garima) are weighty and meaningful. Song picturisations (by Rekha Chinni Prakash, Howard Rosemeyer and Ganesh Acharya) are ordinary. Surender Sodhi's background music is okay. Anshuman Mahaley does a fine job of the camerawork. Abbas Ali Moghul's action scenes are fair. Udai Prakash Singh's production designing is appropriate. Shree Narayan Singh's editing should've been sharper.

On the whole, Toilet Ek Prem Katha is a fair entertainer which will do reasonably good business and keep its investors happy. It deserves tax-exemption.

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Posted: 8 years ago
^^^
sab yehi bol rahe hain par toilet jaise movie mein second half ko serious hona hi padega , shayad preachy bhi hona pade , intention sahi ho aur kya
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Originally posted by: Anachronist

^^^

sab yehi bol rahe hain par toilet jaise movie mein second half ko serious hona hi padega , shayad preachy bhi hona pade , intention sahi ho aur kya

aap kab dekh rahe ho movie? cold is better or worse?

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