In Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, Keshav (Akshay Kumar) isn’t expected
to build a monument like the Taj Mahal that a Mughal emperor had built
for his beloved wife, but a utility-friendly toilet for his bride (Bhumi
Pednekar) who refuses to defecate in the open fields like the other
women in his village.
I hope it's on SBS in due course. The reviewer is having some fun further down:
The second half was decidedly a crash course on the existing
government’s noble attempts at providing toilets across India and to
highlight the narrow-mindedness among Indians who are shackled by
cultural and religious beliefs.
But don’t give up on this film yet, because it has some golden moments scattered across it....
The first half is smooth, but it’s the second half that gets
constipated. The premise which is intriguing and novel becomes
repetitive and laboured. Some of the scenes in the second half seems
contrived to make the current government shine and sparkle. Keshav and
Jaya’s domestic problem snowballs into such a stinker of an issue that
the entire state seems to be involved towards the end. There’s a good
chance that you may have lost interest and your steam by all that drama
surrounding a toilet-building battle.
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, which clocks 175 minutes ...
175 minute Bollywood extravaganza about defecating in India! Hollywood should pay attention, as it is scratching around for new ideas....
1 comment:
Only movie worth telling about is Dunkirk
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