Our heroine Mukku (Sara Ali Khan) is the younger daughter of a priest who also runs a shop and a guest house and needs a pithoo - porter - to cart her up and down. It's not a modern love tale where the lovers are in bed by the second date but is a slow burner, where love germinates over many a ride up and down a mountain. The songs “Qaafirana” and “Namo Namo” sung by Arijit Singh and Amit Trivedi respectively, add a mystical flavour to the narrative.Ĭhandan Arora’s editing has also got that finely-tuned, perfect blend of every technical element that it takes to make a great film, especially the climax, which is painstakingly done by incorporating effects with sound design and music into a seamless fabric that is emotionally satisfying.īut overall the shift of tones while blending a fictional, inter-faith romance with a historical natural disaster, the film suffers to some degree from the maker’s romantic and idealistic ideas and thereby leaves you unsatisfied.Kedarnath is the story about a Muslim boy and a Hindu girl falling in love with each other.
Hitesh Soni’s music brings Amitabh Bhattacharya’s lyrics to life. The action and melodrama sequences too are competently handled. Cinematographer Tushar Kanti Ray uses the fluidity of the hand-held cameras in an attempt to capture the freshness of a spontaneous experience. Technically the film is astutely mounted. They deliver a uniformly strong performance. Supporting the couple in conventional roles are Nishant Dahiya as Kullu the local politician and Mandakini’s fiance, Nitish Bharadwaj as Mandakini’s father – “Pandit”, Pooja Gor as her sister and Alka Amin as Mansoor’s mother. As the spunky Mandakini, she reminds you of her mother Amrita Singh in her debut “Betaab”.Īnd, while Sushant and Sara deliver their chops earnestly, their on-screen chemistry lacks charisma and the fault lies not with them, but the script. While Sushant Singh Rajput delivers a sincere performance, all eyes are on Sara Ali Khan who makes her debut with this film. The plot is actually an interesting one that feels both timeless and current, in the way that it plays with romance and a recent natural calamity. How romance brews between the two of them, forms a major part of the narrative. Soon the narrative focuses on the affable Mansoor (Sushant Singh Rajput) a human-porter and Mandakini aka Muku (Sara Ali Khan), the rebellious daughter of a local business man. And interestingly, we learn that despite being a pilgrim centre for the Hindus, there are a few Muslim families that live there too. Wasting absolutely no time, the director drops the viewers into the picturesque pilgrim town of Kedarnath and introduces us to the harmonious lives of its residents which consists of human-porters who are locally called “pithoo” and the shop-cum-lodge owners and tells us how their lives are dependent on the flow of the pilgrims. There are sequences that remind you of films like “Waqt”, “Jai Santoshi Maa” and “Mother India”. It also brings together two opposing worlds of Indian cinema the narrative of the traditional cinemas of the 70s and the modern technicalities of the 21st century. It is sensitive, competently crafted and appears genuinely regional in flavour. Film: “Kedarnath” Director: Abhishek Kapoor Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Sara Ali Khan, Nishant Dahiya, Nitish Bharadwaj, Pooja Gor, Alka Amin Rating: ***ĭirector Abhishek Kapoor’s “Kedarnath” kind of wears its premise on its title.
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