Lovey-dovey couple Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor at ‘Phantom’ screening
Aww! Saif and Kareena look cute at ‘Phantom’ screening
Date: Mon, Aug 24, 2015, Source
'Phantom' screening
Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor were spotted at the special screening of director Kabir Khan’s next film ‘Phantom’ in Mumbai.
The PDA by the lovey-dovey couple caught our eye and we share these gorgeous moments with you.
Saif Ali Khan is the leading man of ‘Phantom’. The film will release on August 28.
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The Phantom Movie Review
‘Phantom’ is thrilling in parts
By Naresh Kumar Deoshi, Source
The ApunKaChoice movie review of ‘Phantom’. Revenge is best served cold. And if the freezing of cricketing relations and the hanging of a terrorist isn’t a serving good enough to get one a closure, there’s imagination and fiction to exact on reel, if not in real, revenge from those who masterminded the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 2008 and who continue to spew venom against India from their chosen pulpits in Pakistan. ‘Phantom’ is the child of that imagination.
Well, if India doesn’t have its Operation Neptune Spear to inspire a film like ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, it has Bollywood to fill the void and give our unfulfilled dreams and wishes the wings and feet to accord us a momentary thrill of having settled the score with a pesky neighbour.
Director Kabir Khan, who so wholeheartedly propagated the message of amity between India and Pakistan in his previous release ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, does a turnaround with the ‘take-no-prisoners’ approach of the ravaging protagonist Daniyal Khan (Saif Ali Khan) in ‘Phantom’.
On paper at least, Daniyal is an interesting character. A court-martialed Indian army officer living a life of anonymity, Daniyal is a self-propelled torpedo out to redeem himself when he is hired by India’s intelligence agency RAW to give the terrorists a good taste of their own medicine. Katrina Kaif enters the fray as Nawaz Mistry, an ex-RAW agent with childhood memories of the Taj Mahal Hotel that became India’s ground zero on 26/11.
As Daniyal and Nawaz go about executing their mission, the story goes globetrotting from Mumbai to Kashmir to London to Chicago to Lebanon to Syria and finally to Pakistan (recreated in apna Punjab).
Both Daniyal and Nawaz have many close shaves and leave a trail of dead bodies in their wake. The question is: will they bump off the 26/11 mastermind Haariz Saeed and other co-conspirators?
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‘Phantom’ packs in enough ammunition to give you the adrenaline kick with a smattering of patriotism that tries to steer clear of jingoism but comes pretty close to chest-thumping. Where the film falters is the facile approach it takes in dealing out justice to the terrorists and an overtly simplistic picture of the otherwise complex interplay of geopolitical dynamics in the Arab world that it presents. The screenwriter chooses convenience over conviction, and the result is a film necessitating some suspension of disbelief.
Saif Ali Khan apparently puts in much heart and hard work into his character Daniyal and underplays the part to make him appear bland, unemotional and dauntless. A creditable but not standout performance. Katrina Kaif’s ex-RAW agent Nawaz is no different than the ISI agent Zoya she played in Kabir Khan’s ‘Ek Tha Tiger’. Period. In supporting roles, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty (as the RAW chief), Mohammad Zeeshan Ayyub (as the RAW officer) do well. Actor Shahnawaz Pradhan, in pakol and beard, looks like some long lost twin of Hafiz Saeed and is convincing as Haaris, the onscreen stand-in for Hafiz. No wonder Shahnawaz has gone underground for security reasons at the time of the film’s release.
Kabir Khan’s intention in ‘Phantom’ is beyond doubt. He doesn’t come out all guns blazing in some kind of smear cinematic campaign against Pakistan. Rather, Khan keeps things pretty much balanced and shows that Pakistanis too are victims of terrorism. But he and writer Hussain Zaidi (from whose book ‘Mumbai Avengers’ this film is adapted) take a rather simplistic route in dealing out ‘insaaf’ to the plotters of the Mumbai carnage.
In short, ‘Phantom’ is a revenge we wish was smarter, even if in fiction.
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