Sardar Ka Grandson Review: This Cross border drama can be strictly watched by families for its Unusual story
Sardar Ka Grandson Movie Rating: 2 stars
Just watched Sardar Ka Grandson movie on Netflix. So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Neena Gupta, Rakul Preet Singh, Kumud Mishra, Mir Mehroos, Kanwaljit Singh, Soni Razdan, Masood Akhtar, Divya Seth Shah, Aditi Rao Hydari And John Abraham
Director: Kaashvie Nair
Release Date: 18th May 2021 (On Netflix)
Story: Arjun Kapoor‘s voiceover greets us at the start of the film as he tells us about his dadi who would say, “Life mein do cheezein badi bekaar hai, khaana bina achhar and life bina pyaar”. Amreek Singh (Arjun Kapoor) lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée Radha (Rakul Preet Singh) with whom he also shares a business a moving and packing company called Gently Gently.
One day Amreek father (Kanwaljit Singh) informed that his 90-year-old grandmother Sardar Rupinder Kaur fondly called Sardar (Neena Gupta) has been diagnosed with a tumour then he returns to India to meet her. Sardar is the family matriarch and owner of a successful bicycle manufacturing company in Amritsar, Punjab.
His sardar expresses a desire to visit the house she built in the 1940s with her husband Gursher Singh (John Abraham) in Pakistan. Gursher was murdered in the post-Partition bloodbath of 1947 that resulted in a mass exodus from both sides of the border. Young Sardar (Aditi Rao Hydari) managed to escape to Amritsar with her infant and made a new life for herself. She remarried her family grew and prospered, but the pain has never left her.
Unfortunately Sardar is denied visa to visit Pakistan due to an earlier incident during a heated India-Pakistan cricket match in which she had manhandled Kumud Mishra who is a senior official from Pakistan. When she confides in her favorite grandchild and circumstances prevent him from taking her on a journey to Pakistan, he decides to move mountains to bring the house to her. Having just split with his fiancé Radha he understands the emptiness that Sardar has carried with her for 70-plus years after the death of her beloved Gursher.
Amreek decides to move his ancestral home from Lahore to Amritsar using structure relocation engineering. When he tried to get the help from Radha she denied due to his behavior and in Pakistan the mayor of sardar ancient home area was same man who was manhandled during cricket match. Will Amreek able to fulfil the last wish of her grand mother is all about the film.
Positives
1. Story
2. Cinematography
3. Screenplay
Negatives
1. Climax
2. Length
3. Direction
4. Music
5. Average Performances
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : When I watched the trailer of this film planned to watch it on first day for its unique story, star cast and music.
Amreek Singh (Arjun Kapoor) is a goofy, happy go lucky kind of a guy doing odd jobs for a company run by his girlfriend Radha (Rakul Preet) in Los Angeles. His grandmother, who everybody fondly calls Sardar (Neena Gupta) is a 90-year-old loud and boisterous industrialist. She has been a victim of the India-Pakistan partition and wants to see the house she built with her husband Gursher Singh (John Abraham) in Lahore for one last time. The Pakistan government has blacklisted her for an angry outburst at a cricket match in Mohali against a senior official (Kumud Mishra) from the neighboring country. She can’t go to the house but the house can come to her. Amreek has now taken it upon himself to bring the same house from Pakistan to Amritsar for Sardar.
The relationship between grand-children and grand-parents has been a subject of several Bollywood films but very few have explored it from the perspective of fulfilling dreams of your grand-parents. This is such a film that explores to what limit one would go to fulfil the last wish of a matriarch. In most parts, the film has its heart in the right place. However, it fails to leave an everlasting mark due to the overall performance and loose storytelling. The angle of partition too is briefly touched and missed without evoking or stirring an emotional connection with the audience.
One thing that works in the film’s favor is that it is oriented for family viewing. During the lockdown you can sit with your entire family and enjoy the drama without a remote in your hand to skip those so necessary passion scenes. My view on this movie (Time Pass)
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