2 stars. Ranveer did a decent job but overacted for the most part. Deepika, a complete waste, not much for her to showcase her talent other than being lovely, obedient second but dearest wife of Ratan Singh. Ratan singh had no advisors/ministers in his court? always making decisions on his own; and was he the king of mewar region or just the fort? screenplay and editing are the worst, a story full of disconnects. On top of that there is a lot of distortion of history and over-the-top glorification of Rajputs (wonder why Karna Sena is upset about this movie); in the process Ratan Singh's character came across as a clueless dolt with zero administrative acumen. As usual, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's movie is devoid of substance and surprisingly lacked the (foolish) pomp he is popular for. Not worth a watch.

ashdoc wrote:
Just like director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's earlier films , the distinguishing mark of the film is great cinematography and rich colours . Great attention seems to have been paid to the clothes of each and every person , from the plain clothes worn by soldiers to the bejewelled and embroidered clothes worn by the noble ladies and the queen . 

Colors and clothes are a huge thing in Rajasthani life:

Seen online:
So in Padmavaati, a Rajput king continues to flail on the battlefield even after beheaded. Kind of like a headless chicken then. And thusly quite appropriate

any suggestions on the most useless song of the movie, just in case someone needs to, you know, step out for a couple minutes? It's a frigging 3-hour movie. Hard to last that long unless one plans ahead and goes on fluid-fasting, like 4 hours in advance.

rasāsvāda wrote:any suggestions on the most useless song of the movie, just in case someone needs to, you know, step out for a couple minutes? It's a frigging 3-hour movie. Hard to last that long unless one plans ahead and goes on fluid-fasting, like 4 hours in advance.

You will have more than one. 1. binte dil 2. holi song 3. khalibali

Personally, I think its unethical to twist history. Jodha Akbar, and now this.

Using movies as a "creative" media to twist historical facts is plain and simple unethical to the least, and a crime to mankind on other extreme.

Put another way, if someone made a movie on this movie maker (Sanjay Leela Bhansali?) in 2060 and showed him as someone who he is not, would it not an injustice to him?

Put yet another way, if someone made a movie on Bhagat Singh, showing him in love with a girl as the primary theme, a movie full of huge sets, and fairy tale songs - would you accept it?

This film maker is simply "using" historical figures to make money.

Shameless!

1 - finally it got available on movie pass

2 - can't believe i blocked 5, then 4, then 3, then 2 seats on fandango from 3-4 hours before the movie, just so that i could buy it for free on movie pass. Reality check. I need a life. Or a boyfriend. Whichever comes first. While going to my seat, i smugly checked out two other solo watchers like me, for whom i blocked prime seats until 30 minutes before the movie. maybe i should have asked them to pay me extra. 

3 - *yawn* I mean the movie was overall a yawn. I don't remember the last time i have yawned so much in a movie, and almost dozed off in one of the last songs. I think i low-key lost it when they made Khilji dance.

4 - i remember watching movie or movies as a kid when rajputs would lose wars and women would do jauhar. But those were more 'realistic' in timeline. Not like closing the door or a running king before the last one jumps in. On another note, trust Rajasthani folks to do everything in style, and fully and completely, and traditionally. If their women have to die, they will not just die, no they will do so in a big ass bonfire. Guess that's what made them famous... too bad they didn't know when to stop with the sati practice, which was not the same as jauhar. On second thoughts, why didn't they secretly move their women and children to other neutral kingdoms, when they knew war was coming for months. Secret tunnels and all. 

5 - i have grown up around rajputs and there were so many scenes which rang true, and at the same time there were so many scenes that made me cringe. NO WAY some of the things they showed would happen. Show their queen's face to a muslim barbaric ruler? Have rajput warriors go dressed as women? Now that's another one I want to search up in history. And more, can't think of right now. 

6 - on the plus side, actors and the director did a great job. Almost all actors, even in supportive role had impactful and memorable scenes. Many scenes were mega, the kind that stay in your memory for a while. Special mention to ranveer singh for performance, it was so much his movie (maybe they should have named the movie Khilji, not Padmavati, and none of this controversy would have happened), and Deepika looked wow. great costumes throughout. The last scene was powerful. 

this is probably one of those movies that I hated as a whole, but will fondly recall few scenes here or there.

why didn't they secretly move their women and children to other neutral kingdoms


This was a problem that Hindu and Sikh women faced during partition too. You must be remembering the movies Khamosh Pani and Pinjar (latter based on novel by Amrita Pritam). The novelist Urvashi Butalia has speculated that there is something about Hinduism that makes a woman proprietary to a man, in a way that transcends this and seven lives, that she cannot be shared by others. Islam, on the other hand, mandates no such bond between a man and a woman and women can, hahaha, to use mathematics, form 2^n relations with men if they are n in number. 

So, as per daddy, there is trouble every time you lose sight of 50:50 or 1/2 and no law should be so inflexible that a human loses the right to defend himself. If a chance is given to a woman to defend herself, and if she still wishes to commit jauhar, or the mob insists she commit jauhar, then she should. I know this sounds like faulty reasoning, but no one is greater than the mob, even when the mob is mad. It does not mean you should not fight the mob. It means it is OK even if you lose. 

We saw the movie yesterday. It was the first time in our lives that our son took us out for a movie. I found the sets in the movie mesmerizing. Filmography was good. The movie was average. 

Meditation helps! I had a brief glimpse of Buddha yesterday while meditating. He said -- if you think the world is entirely in your mind, you are wrong. I wasn't surprised. I just accepted that my thoughts had been waylaid. I was non judgmental. The more I meditate, the closer I will get to the mind. The mind is the only thing that is not entirely in the universe.

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