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Lakshya 20049/15/2023 ![]() ![]() Karan Shergill, first seen arriving at an army outpost near Kargil, in remote northwest India. This is a star-driven blockbuster in permanent denial. But for a movie that finesses traditional Bollywood antics, there’s not much here to take their place: Roshan is much more at home in straightforward genre material and, though “Lakshya” rarely drags across its three hours, the viewer longs for the movie to bust out of its britches with a splashy musical number or “Mission Kashmir”-type heroics. This would have worked fine if (a) Roshan were a more involving actor, and (b) if Javed Akhtar’s script had given him more to bite on. “Lakshya,” despite its sizable posted budget of 330 million rupees ($7 million), is a smaller film in terms of character, with the story centered on one protagonist, and most of the supports largely there for decoration. The story of three college friends who later drift apart earned a place in recent Bollywood history with its smooth technique, use of direct sound and, most of all, relaxed perfs. Akhtar, son of veteran writer Javed Akhtar and scripter Honey Irani (who made an impressive helming debut last year with “Armaan”), brought a fresh spin to formulaic material with “Dil chahta hai” (2001). ![]()
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