{"id":6489,"date":"2019-04-18T19:31:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2019-04-22T23:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T23:02:43","slug":"kalank-review-three-reasons-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/kalank-review\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Kalank\u2019 Review: Three Reasons To See It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Set on the precipice of Indian and Pakistani independence, 1940s period-piece\u00a0<\/span>Kalank<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/a>is a far cry from director Abhishek Varman\u2019s debut, romantic-comedy\u00a0<\/span>2 States<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/i>(2014). His follow-up boasts both an operatic grandeur and an all-star Indian cast, the likes of which producing studio Dharma Productions has been associated with for some time. Though, where it stands apart from most<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>films of its ilk<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0is how its crisscrossing story \u2014 a melodrama steeped in family feuds, with plot twists galore \u2014 acts as a fiery, pressurized microcosm of the film\u2019s own historical backdrop.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With independence from the British came Partition (<\/span>o<\/span>ne country for Hindus, one for Muslims) and with Partition came mass migration and untold violence.\u00a0<\/span>Kalank<\/span><\/i>\u00a0frames this outcome as inevitable, opening with brief flashes of the conflict in 1947 before introducing its main characters, who, in 1945, don\u2019t have the same awareness of history as the audience<\/span>. Y<\/span>et\u00a0<\/span>they\u00a0<\/span>wrestle with their own form of inevitability: Satya Chaudhry (<\/span>Sonakshi<\/span>\u00a0Sinha) has a year to live, in which time she hopes to make her childhood acquaintance\u00a0<\/span>Roop<\/span>\u00a0(Alia Bhatt) fall in love with her husband Dev (Aditya Roy\u00a0<\/span>Kapur<\/span>), both to keep Dev happy after she\u2019s gone, and to make amends for the way her family had treated\u00a0<\/span>Roop\u2019s<\/span>. And so, in the final year of Satya\u2019s life,\u00a0<\/span>Roop<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>marries Dev and moves in<\/span>\u00a0with\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0well-off Hindu family<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0in\u00a0<\/span>their<\/span>\u00a0otherwise working-class Muslim locale, amidst local anxieties about industrialization as the nation braces for change.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n