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Kalank Movie Review - A Grand Affair

April 17, 2019
Sparkles turn into a fire when romance enters the scene and reveals some old secrets and affairs buried in the past. 



Cast - Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Sonakshi Sinha, Aditya Roy Kapur, Madhuri Dixit, Sanjay Dutt

Directed By - Abhishek Varman

Genre - Drama, Romance

Kalank is a film which is easy to trash, but it becomes hard to acknowledge the effort that went into it. It is not entirely your fault as it gets blinded by its own beauty and ends up falling on the floor. The grand, beautiful sets are just empty bodies without a soul or at least it acts like it has a soul. 

The movie begins with a carefree Roop (Alia Bhatt) who jumps on the top of the roofs to catch kites. In the next scene, her wings are cut off as she agrees to a marriage proposal which takes her to Husnabad where the other characters are introduced in an oddly paced montage. During the musical track "Ghar More Pardesiya", we see an excellently choreographed dance while Roop crosses the "Laxman Rekha" putting the "Ramayan" in motion. Things start getting out of place, and something feels a bit weird about the way the scenes unfold. It all looks like a big jigsaw puzzle put together randomly but with passion. 

It's evident that Varman's film comes under the new Bhansali movies where the story takes a backseat while the visuals swoon you over. But Kalank not only puts the story in the backseat but also tries to throw it out of the door a few times. If the camera romanticises the big sets and costumes to make it go easy on the eyes, then the never-ending over-the-top poetic dialogues brutalise your senses. Some sequences seem to go on and on without a halt as if the writer forgot to put the full stop in the script.  When out of ideas, it starts dancing to the beats of Madhuri Dixit to cover up the runtime or place an unnecessary cringy CGI bullfight.

It already hints in the beginning as to where this journey would eventually take us. We already guess the twist before it serves itself on the table. But Varman's obsession with his craft makes him oblivious to the surrounding. He tries to put it all out and ends up tiring the audience with a runtime clocking almost 3 hours. It fails to connect on every level be it the love triangle, past affairs, bro fights or even the ongoing politics which serves up as a plot device, a barrier if you may, for our lovers to overcome. We all know the destination of this train.                      

Varman had worked as an assistant director in Jodhaa Akbar (2008), My Name Is Khan (2010) and Student of the Year (2012) before making his directorial debut with 2 States (2014). Kalank is his second directorial venture in which the traces of his previous films are clearly visible. Another noticeable thing is his great ambitions, and you can see how much love and labour he has put in to make this a great movie. The song "First Class" cuts between the dance and a "Not-So-First Class" situation. Those gorgeous frames and photogenic scenes make a lasting impression, but they don't help much in keeping you engaged.

I am disappointed because this could have been a watchable if not the best film. The elements were all there but never properly utilised or maybe over-utilised beyond redemption. Kalank aims for the sky but never really takes off which is a bummer. 

Rating - 1.5/5

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