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Akira Movie Review: Akira is a story about a girl, but it can apply equally to every thinking female who runs into a wild world every time she thinks of doing her 'thing' or looking to be a normal person. That there is rampant violence against females in India is made garishly, cruelly clear early in the movie. There are no ifs and buts in Akira, there is just this girl from backwoods landing up in Mumbai and she starts kicking ass immediately. An empowering female moment. Perhaps, not! (Image Source: BollywoodHungama)
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Akira Movie Review: But more than that rather, less than that, is the fact, that this memorable machismo play by the girl does not go down well, so to speak, and she is chastised and even ends up in a mental hospital. But she lives to fight another day. The message is, if you want to fight this big bad world controlled by males, you will go through hell. So, either be prepared for the worse or sit at home and take up knitting, be a techie or something…, but not a liberated woman – in both mind and soul. (Image Source: BollywoodHungama)
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Akira Movie Review: Akira is a remake of a Tamil action movie and the script is convoluted. A small-town Rajasthani girl comes to Mumbai and runs into a gory murder and there is, what else, lots of violence and corruption involved. So what, deal with it girl, is the message from director A.R. Murugadoss and he promptly sets about executing the same. (Image Source: BollywoodHungama)
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Akira Movie Review: And Murugadoss does not hold back his punches. He makes the girl run straight into the 'villainous' and terribly scary ACP Rane (Anurag Kashyap) who is a fearsome robber-in-cops clothes. Not just corruption, he is very much into killings too and the movie paints as dark a painting of policemen as it is possible to get. (Image Source: BollywoodHungama)
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Akira Movie Review: So, what you see is one bad-ass girl throwing her weight around to give justice its rightful play but the rapacious Rane refuses to play ball. Clash is inevitable and someone is bound to get hurt. Many, in fact, do as the scenes play out. Spectacularly sensational beatings and worse happens. (Image Source: BollywoodHungama)
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Akira Movie Review: Well, kind of unbelievable, but one is pleasantly surprised by Sonakshi Sinha. She is actually effective in playing this role. She is quite mesmerising in fact, and if it had all been scripted in a more realistic manner, this could have turned out to be a magnificent movie. But that is not the road this one took. The mass audience may well accept the fact that there can be a female super-human, but when that person is shown as having to go through purgatory, it becomes kind of far fetched. Especially, as she ends up as the lone survivor of this massive carnage. (Image Source: BollywoodHungama)
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Akira Movie Review: If you are kinky enough for this kind of stuff, go ahead, make your day. If you go with blinkers on and keep switching off the insane parts, perhaps you can actually come out applauding the female protagonist and even congratulate the filmmakers on creating a magnificently malignant ACP Rane. Rating: ** (Image Source: BollywoodHungama)
