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Haseena Parkar movie review: The film spends considerable time on Haseena's backstory.Haseena Parkar movie cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhant Kapoor, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang, Priyanka Setia
Haseena Parkar movie director: Apoorva Lakhia
Haseena Parkar movie rating: 1.5 stars
The persona of the female don pops up every once in a while as a diversion, but full-fledged Bollywood films revolving around such characters are rare.
In 1999, there was Shabana Azmi's Godmother'. And now comes Haseena Parkar', which has Shraddha Kapoor play the part of Dawood Ibrahim's sister, a woman who started off as a wife and mother, and who grew into becoming a fearsome entity, flouting the law with impunity, deriving her power from her Bhai-in-Dubai.
The film spends considerable time on Haseena's backstory. Her father was a police constable who is shown as someone who could not stop his sons go down the path of wrong-doing; Haseena herself is shown as someone who is pleased enough to own a smuggled watch, but who would have been quite content to spend her life the way it was shaping up post-marriage and motherhood. And who ended up where she did only because of circumstances.
This could have been a deeply interesting sketch of a woman who is clearly capable of being much more than she started out with. But Haseena Parkar' offers no such insight. Shraddha Kapoor manages the young wife-and-mother part well enough, but her transition to the other side is never fully realized: she appears to be speaking her lines to order, and the cheek-pads to add flesh to her jowls, and the deliberately heavier voice, is all put on. Also, she never really looks old enough for the older woman's part. That's double the artifice.
The supporting cast is also by the numbers, and tediously so. Siddhant Kapoor, Shraddha's brother in real life, plays Dawood, and does nothing we haven't seen before in previous iterations of the dreaded don. Bhatia as Haseena's strapping, handsome husband does his job, and gets out of the way.
The rest is a long and winding and weary telling of a story which could have been something, but comes off merely as a tired re-tread of tired re-treads.
Rating: 1/5
Jise Rs 2000 ka bijli bill nahi samajh aata, use Rs 2000 crore ka business kaise samajh aayega?
This is what Aapa, otherwise known as Haseena Parkar, says in front of the judge at a Mumbai court who seems to be in awe of the Nagpada gangster. This sympathetic tone on part of the director is also some kind of validation for the underworld don known for liasioning and property dealing.
how do you react to Shraddha Kapoor speaking with padding inside her mouth, a la Don Corleone?
Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang
Director: Apoorva Lakhia
There's a note of contrived paradox in the title of Haseena Parkar. As the Queen of Mumbai who ruled Nagpada, who carried orders given by her Dubai-based (and later Karachi-based) brother Dawood, and made sure that the Nagpada residents called her "Aapa or elder sister, as she dubiously ran her crime syndicate from Golden Hall, and reportedly had assets worth Rs 5,000 crores, she is shown as someone who only inherited the debatable distinction of being at the helm. But why are we made to see a 124-minute film based on her life? Is it only because she literally got away with murder? The writers of the film have no easy answers. Neither do they let us know what they feel about her. Haseena, on her part, is pretty interesting. It is believed that be it hawala, or overseas rights of Bollywood movies, and extortion to construction sectors, she had a definite say in everything. Everyone who had even remotely anything to do with crime in Mumbai knew she ruled Mumbai like an underworld queen. And that she could get anyone out of her way too, if ever, she so desired. She came to be associated with crime leaving no room for doubt that the fear among masses continued. Yet, from Apoorva Lakhia's account of her life from her role as the caring elder sister to someone who would believe her most-wanted brother's near confession that he did no wrong in bomb blasts in Mumbai to finally her transition into the dreaded don who could be as ruthless as her sibling is rather sympathetic, even presented as a wholesome victim of reputation.
As played hesitatingly by Shraddha Kapoor, Haseena is sweet-natured and tolerant, God-fearing and sincere, hopeful of a legit home with a loving husband but proud to be the 'sister who dares to call the shots in the midst of supportive community of social misfits. It is believed that back in the 1990s, such was her influence in 2007 that every builder would ask her to get them permission from slum-dwellers for their projects. The problem with Haseena both the character and the actor is the near half-heartedness with which she has been approached in the narrative. Not to mention her own limitation to portray such a strong character. Kapoor is shown as innocent, nice and even giggly until she emerges as someone one would fear the most. And to make sure the contrast is striking, in the latter half, she has been made to use prosthetics and extra-paddings to get the desired menace in her look. She also uses a silly technique to modulate her voice to sound threatening. Needless to say, she fails on both counts.
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