Ekalavya - Movie Review

In keeping with the tradition of naming Bollywood films lately....say over the last year or so, Ekalavya is not just Ekalavya...it is:

Ekalavya - The Royal Guard

How about we name it:

Ekalavya - The Battle of the Gargantuan Beards (pliss to look at the posters for the movie! )
or
Ekalavya - The Royal Pain in Yer Arse! (Read it like a Scotsman for best effect)

Boman Irani, with his stellar performance of bumbling Shakespearean sonnets and getting pedicures absolutely HAS TO get the award for the "Gayest Emperor in the history of Indian Cinema!"

Amitabh does a decent job overall, but managed to effortlessly cross-over into the realm of "over-acting" a few times. Some of the loopholes he has to contend with - he cant "supposedly" see beyond a few feet due to his "photo-sensitive" eyes but yet manages to drive his Jeep for miles...

Saif Alli(!) Khan and Vidya Belan(!) have no chemistry....or physics....or biology...jaane do yaar!

Cinematography is fantastic....it's by Nataraja Subramanian (just found out that he's the same guy who's worked with Black Friday). BUT cinematography alone cannot carry a cinema and this movie is ample evidence!

Also, what's up with using the Gayatri Mantra as the background score on several occasions? To me, it plainly says you got no game...no ability to create a score that's good enough....maybe people think it's cool to throw the poor mantra into the mix and create a sense of tradition etc,. let me break it down for you.....it's not cool and it doesn't work....

Bottomline is that there was not one standout performance that I was able to identify in the movie.