Movie: Ae Watan Mere Watan
Cast: Sara Ali Khan, Emraan Hashmi, Sparsh Shrivastav, Anand Tiwari
Director: Kannan Iyer
Producer: Karan Johar
Watch: Amazon Prime Video
Rating: 2/5 Stars
Movie Review: Ae Watan, Mere Watan might have carried out properly with fine-tuning. In 1942, as Mahatma Gandhi proclaimed his “do or die” dictum, the resistance towards the British Raj reached its momentum.
We meet the younger Usha Mehta( Sara Ali Khan) the daughter of a barrister Sachin Khedekar. He encourages his daughter to unfold her wings and brings her a radio that connects her to the remainder of the world. Little does he realise, he has fuelled her curiosity, and given her the device for rebel.
Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, and Congress ideology younger Usha too, alongside along with her pals does her bit to free her nation from its colonial shackles. The leaders of the Quit India Movement are in jail. Her pro-British decide father laments, that solely the Raj can self-discipline India, Usha is a insurgent with a trigger. Even although her father asks her to decide on between him and her mission, she is obvious, her coronary heart beats for her nation.
Along along with her shut pals and fellow younger patriots, Kaushik (Abhay Verma) and Fahad (Sparsh Srivastav), Usha hits upon utilizing the radio as an instrument of rebel and launches a radio station as her type of rebel. They get the backing of Congress chief Ram Manohar Lohia (Emraan Hashmi), who has managed to evade arrest.
Kannan Iyer’s Ae Watan, Mere Watan performs homage to Usha Mehta, the founding father of the Congress Radio. Usha Mehta, a Gandhian was one of many many unsung but feisty ladies who led the wrestle for independence from the entrance.
Its sepia-tinted body evokes nostalgia for the passion and fervour of the youth, the place women and men marched alongside within the struggle for independence, nevertheless it falls quick in its documentation on many elements.
It is sluggish and falls into the acquainted” we’ve got seen it earlier than terrain” in its storytelling.
Despite its wealthy supply materials and the premise of a younger woman who finds expression and stays true to her conviction, the movie lags in its execution. The facet of utilizing the radio as a type of rebel might have been cleverly advised, however the writing and therapy lose steam, and the dialogues are typical and banal.
Sara Ali Khan has had two back-to-back releases. From taking part in the woman round city in Murder Mubarak, the actor does her finest to carry forth the fearlessness and spitfire character of Usha in “Ae Watan, Mere Watan”. However, her character together with that of Emraan Hashmi’s Ram Manohar Lohia, and plenty of others fails to make a long-lasting impression.
“Ae Watan, Mere Watan” tries too exhausting and turns into an extended monotonous lesson and will have carried out with some fine-tuning, and does little to carry forth the excessive frequency of this chapter in historical past.
