WILL BANGISTAN TURN OUT TO BE ANOTHER FUKREY?

Excel Entertainment over the years has been associated with qualitative cinema. Hence, despite the low buzz, there’s some sort of excitement for Bangistan, that releases tomorrow. It stars Riteish Deshmukh, Pulkit Samrat and Jacqueline Fernandez and is directed by Karan Anshuman, who rose to fame as a critic of Mumbai Mirror. The film is based on a great idea. Bangistan is actually a fictional country, divided into 2 parts – North Bangistan is Muslim dominated while South Bangistan is Hindu dominated. Two people from both sides are brainwashed and sent as suicide bomber to a world religion conference in Poland, leading to madness and laughter. The film gives a message, as per the makers, but is not preachy. Songs haven’t worked at all but the idea of Bangistan has somewhere caught attention.

The film was to release last week. But since Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Baahubali were going strong and Drishyam would have served as strong competition, the makers decided to shift ahead by a week. However, tomorrow it’ll face competition from the Hollywood biggie Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation that’ll surely open better than Bangistan. But Bangistan can score if response is good. 2 years back, Excel came up with Fukrey, a film that looked entertaining but lacked buzz. Expectedly, the opening was poor but the word of mouth was so positive that it emerged as a commercial success. Bangistan gives out a similar vibe and if all goes well, it can also work.

The other release of the week is Jaanisaar. It is directed by Umrao Jaan director Muzaffar Ali and stars Imran Abbas and Pernia Qureshi. It is a period drama and has been shot very well, as evident from the promos. It doesn’t seem like a caricature and attempts to give an authentic depiction of 1870s Lucknow. Sadly, it doesn’t look that exciting. Its release itself is very low and the collections are going to be extremely poor.

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