Prakash Jha, a warrior film-maker so to call him, has always brought reality into his cinema. Reality as in always about the political world. He's made his point in the past with amazing movies like Gangaajal.
This time he tries to take a shot at Naxalities and their fight.
The first half of the movie is serious and thrilling with one song perfectly gelling with the movie. The pace is slow but still the audience is gripped to their seats. I thought the movie was growing more awesomer even though there was this abrupt "Intermission" title.
As the second half started and as the story unfolded, the pace was still the same and the story was taking a good direction but somewhere somehow something was lacking. The audience could clearly smell something going wrong and then they started laughing at the unintentional jokes made by the protagonists and then the movie lost its charm not just because of the audience, there was something visibly ordinary in the way the package was wrapped.
Brilliant performance by Abhay Deol as usual. He picks up roles very intelligently and none of his roles are impacted by any foreign material. He's becoming a gem of an actor.
Arjun Rampal plays a daring police office and his wife played by Esha Gupta comes in as a strong support but her acting fails and her lip sync goes haphazard.
Somehow all Naxals have nice formal watches in their wrists and each of them shine.
The camera captures the actors so beautifully that you can easily see Arjun Rampal's moustache is unevenly shaved. Probably it was intentional we never know. His character was concentrating on killing the villain so much that he was in a hurry maybe.
Music is composed by an assortment of composers and they have delivered a perfect concoction of songs which mix with the people of the movie. The background score was pretty decent and kept with the pace of the movie.
Overall, Chakravyuh doesn't let you lose your way but it does convey a message. A good attempt at movie making. However, at the end you come to know that the main backbone of the story is about bonding and all that that was shown was just to convey a social message. That is what went in the negative for the viewer.
Rating: 2.5/5
Chakravyuh: Clumsy yet interesting
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