"Phantom (फॅन्टम)"
Watched Hindi movie "Phantom (फॅन्टम)".
This film is directed by Kabir Khan. Written by Kabir Khan, Kausar Munir. Produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, Siddharth Roy Kapur. Music by Pritam. Cinematography Aseem Mishra. The film stars Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif, Sabyasachi Chakraborty, Mohammed Zheeshan Ayub, Rajesh Tailang, Denzil Smith, Sumit Gulati. The film runs for about 2 hour 10 minutes and was released in 2015. I watched it on Netflix on 3rd Jan 2021.
26/11 attacks never left Indian memory. RAW chief and an agent from NTRO devise a plan to avenge the 26/11 attacks. Daniyal Khan, a disgraced army officer is roped in. It's his redemption. One kill in UK, one in America and then mission in Pakistan.
The movie is based on book "The Mumbai Avengers" by S. Hussain Zaidi. I wrote review of this book in 2015. See the link:
It happens time and again that a movie is based on the book, but the story is altered beyond recognition. If the alteration is for the betterment of the movie (like 3 idiots) it's pardonable but when it waters down the story, dilutes the plot and makes it insipid, it's unpardonable. The book is much much better than this movie. I won't even start to enumerate the differences.
I expected more from a director like Kabir Khan. He handles the story in a very shallow way. Pakistan doesn't look like Pakistan. They don't speak like Pakistanis. The imitation is evident. Rather than making a thriller he makes a masala movie.
Saif acts like a hero, no disguise, no blending. Katrina still doesn't know how to act. Her Hindi is still horrible. Some of the supporting cast acts better.
This film recovered little more than production cost. Not a commercial success. Rightly so!
Read the book. Don't watch the movie.
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