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Posted: 1 years ago

I told you.....that anyone who grew up on Archies.....will know that Agastya got Archie right.....read Raja Sen's review.....smiley36 He is one critic who knows what he is talking about..


Nanda is genuinely good as Archie. True to the character, he looks mildly concussed and easily amused, and has a likeable nonchalance—be it while singing or sloganeering or lying to girls. He wears the leading man role lightly, as if confused by it. There’s a lovely moment where his father (Suhaas Ahuja, in the film’s most tender performance) tells Archie that artists need to look inward, not outward, and we see him slowly take this in. We see his worldview shift. There’s something to this actor, a boy who doesn’t know his own charm.

It is frankly impossible to correctly grade the others —to see whether they have any talent or simply well-known genes— because the film doesn’t give them enough to do. Vedang Raina captures the Reggie vibe, and Menda’s Dilton has a genuinely adorable shorthand with the gang, but all we can say of, say, Khan’s Veronica is that she says “Archie-kins” with the right bratty lilt. Perhaps most criminally, Jughead, the lazy and sarcastic non-conformist, hardly gets to be in on the fun. Where are those deadpan lines, that enviable metabolism?


https://lifestyle.livemint.com/how-to-lounge/the-archies-zoya-akhtar-film-comics-agastya-nanda-suahana-khan-khushi-kapoor-111701940987804.html

Posted: 1 years ago

Originally posted by: Clochette

I guess you have no idea how much theatre acting differs from movie acting...

Even Raja Sen found it like a school play...smiley36which I guess reflects bad on the director but not the actors......everyone needs to calm down...smiley16

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Posted: 1 years ago

Just watched it.

The movie was OK. It was a typical kids’ movie you would see on the Disney channel, or the Hallmark channel if Hallmark did kids’ movies.

The acting was … well, the four outsiders were definitely better than the three star kids. However, I think some of that is on Zoya if I’m being honest and fair. For the first hour of the movie all the three main characters did was smile at each other and say their lines really slow. All three had the same speech pattern in the first half of the movie which makes me think it was Zoya’s weird direction. It was almost as if the movie was being dubbed in a different language by bad voice actors. Once the storyline got serious their acting got a little better too. They still seemed self conscious and awkward though.

Those of you who after watching the trailer said Vedang Raina will be the breakout star, I think you were right. He was very good and very confident in every scene. Dude has screen presence. Mihir, Yuvraj, and Dot did well too. Mihir being the best of the three but he also had the better role with some comic elements to his character. Parents and other adult characters were very clearly being played by experienced actors, which actually made the star kids stand out even more as awkward and mediocre.

The ending was super predictable.

I’m not watching it again. It was too long for what was essentially a kids movie.

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Posted: 1 years ago


Oops..this makes one swing between like n dislike with every clip

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Posted: 1 years ago


It's actually a smart move u know..from taking all the judging n bashing upon herself, here she is sharing it with Khushi n Agastya. Better deal. Apna dukh baant sakte hai milkar

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Posted: 1 years ago

Originally posted by: NoraSM

All these stars went to premier of Archies 😳 Farah could have shot another "Deewanagi" song there.


We have Farah's review? A Video would be better coz she can't fake it at all

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Posted: 1 years ago

Somehow, I'm happy that I went into this youngster movie without any prior knowledge of the comics...I could enjoy the movie at face value (without making any comparisons smiley2).

Thanks for the Raja Sen quote smiley1

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Posted: 1 years ago

Originally posted by: Kyahikahoon


It's actually a smart move u know..from taking all the judging n bashing upon herself, here she is sharing it with Khushi n Agastya. Better deal. Apna dukh baant sakte hai milkar

Can they baant this dukh and also go away and never pollute our screens again? Especially Suhana. Chee yuck. Get her off the screen please.
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Posted: 1 years ago

Imagine if Dunki underperforms too smiley37I can already see the meltdowns happening. Two jhatka’s within weeks smiley37

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Posted: 1 years ago

@ Smiley...Your posts about everything relative to SRK/Suhana remind me of the highs some?/many? get through the Animal movie...very basic... it seems like a drug to you...now, that you have started to appreciate Alia by having the double focus on SRK and Suhana... I just try to imagine your highs when their Sujoy Gosh movie releases...actually you should be thankful that they exist... smiley36

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